The first two models being introduced are the M030 and the M040 Bi-amplified active monitors, which employ a Natural Composite Enclosure (NCE) manufactured for Genelec in Finland from wood fibre and recyclable material. The M030 and M040 use Genelec enclosure design heritage, featuring rounded edges and gen
Product highlights include Chroma-Q's new Inspire high output, RGBW colour-changing LED house light and AutoLED II ultra bright (16,430 lumens) daylight white LED moving head fixture; LedGo's range of high-quality modular LED video panels; High End Systems' new flagship lighting console, the Road Hog 4; Jands' renowned Vista lighting console range and innovative new Stage CL console "made for LEDs"; and Columbus McKinnon's range of durable, reliable electric chain hoists. Other brands represented at the show on AC-ET's stand include Green Hippo, Spotlight, SGM and Se
Chauvet will present How to Blend LED with Traditional Fixtures on Thursday, 16 May at 12.30pm. Ford Sellers, senior product manager at Chauvet, will review the process of transitioning and replacing existing lighting with energy saving LED fixtures. Sellers will also discuss narrow band versus broad emitting in relation to color, and explain why using the right tools are important to design concept.
In Lights, Camera, Tracking! Paul Braile, a representative from CAST Group, will demonstrate the BlackTrax. By integrating lighting, audio, multimedia and video with one comprehensive tracking solution, the
"To have more tools to work with from the same tool set is a massive advantage," stated lighting designer and show visitor Paul Collison, who got an up close look at the newest Viper fixtures. "The Vipers are clearly a replacement workhorse and a family of fixtures that will be around for a long time." Martin product manager Peter Skytte was clearly satisfied with the response from visitors. "There was great interest from the opening bell," he said.
It was a packed house Thursday evening at Martin's Prolight + Sound party at Gibson Club where lighting industry professional's partied late into the
The first presentation demonstrated how each of the different types of fixtures - tungsten, HID and LED - can work well either individually or together as instruments in a lighting director's tool box; while a second showed how easy it is to set up a lighting system for a gig, making use of the new Magic Sheets function on the control desks and RDM technology, and demonstrating how ETC control desks, fixtures and power control products work together.
Everyone who attended both presentations as well as a personal demonstration of any ETC product was entered into a draw to win a Source Four Mini. The winners were announced as Markus Fuchs, Jan Lemmenmeier, Marcus Schindler
The action-packed four-day Robe schedule included the launch of six innovative new fixtures, a press event announcing the company's sponsorship of Czech MotoGP racing star Karel Abraham and a show-stopping lightshow on the booth that had people packing the aisles each day waiting in anticipation ... and receiving it with rounds of rapturous applause.
Says Robe's CEO Josef Valchar, "We said that last year's Frankfurt was the best ever trade show ... but this year's has surpassed, both in terms of the business completed, the interest in the new products and the general vibe - it has been incredible!"
The much-anticipated Pointe moving light was the focus of Robe's new technology launches this year - a small, very bright, multi-functional fixture which c
Stand NA2 will feature products from Arkaos, Altman, Chromlech. Interactive Technologies, James Thomas, JB Lighting, Look Solutions, and LSC Lighting. Products CITC, Coemar, Core Lighting, Galaxia Electronics, PR Lighting. Robert Juliat, and Wireless Solution will appear on stand RA-C4. White Light Sales and Hire staff will be on hand throughout the show, to answer questions and offer advice about your venue, project, or production.
Two new White Light exclusives -the CORE Lighting ColourPoint and the James Thomas Engineeri
A working display area showcasing the new ArrayCalc V7 will be at the stand inviting installers and integrators to learn more about the sophisticated additional algorithms of this latest software advance. Addressing the requirements of a d&b style simulation and planning tool for a complete installation project as well as corporate and AV markets ArrayCalc V7 accommodates not only line array but point source designs or a combination of both into a single hybrid system design.
Across the Piazza in the salubrious surroundings of the Bury Theatre another treat lies in store. Oran Burns
New in the Commercial and Installed catalogue will be the AX8042 DSP Matrix Automixer, DXT9000 Voice Alarm System and Media Series M1001 and M1201 .
The AX8042 is a versatile digital matrix mixer designed on a powerful DSP platform, with eight universal Mic/Line inputs (one of which can be set as noise detection input) and six outputs on four lines. Thanks to the available processing power, a large number of audio parameters can be set and expansion possibilities exploited.
The DXT 9000 is a fully scalable, EN-54 compliant digital voice alarm system, built on a double-ring topology, with all digital amplif
Highlights on the Orbital Sound stand will include:
The highly successful d&b audiotechnik V-Series and T-Series compact line arrays, which have now featured in numerous club, theatre and multi-purpose venue installations. The loudspeakers are also becoming widely specified for touring productions, emphasising their flexibility and scalability in delivering consistent results across a huge range of venues.
Clear-Com and HME's extensive range of communications systems, distributed exclusively through Orbital for the UK market, and ranging from HME's
The LEDHead range has been expanded to include two pixelmap products for stage, corporate and entertainment lighting use, the Mini-Map miniature LED screen and the 3D-Pixeltube.
The Mini-Map measures 150mm x 150mm with 36x 5050 tricolour pixels. It can be used individually or in clusters to produce video and graphic effects. The Mini-Map has a steel casing, PowerCon and XLR5 connectors and is designed for touring and installation use. The PixelTube is a 3-dimensional lighting system designed to give spectacular lighting effects when the LED tubes are hung above a stage or from the ceiling in entertainment venues. Both products use DMX512 control to allow compatibility with the many DMX512 pixelmapping systems no
According to international sales director, Ernie Armas, feedback to all three new products couldn't have been more positive.
Pascal Vieregge at Focon confirmed that the PR Lighting booth had been one of the real eye-catchers - an inviting area with friendly faces and 72 XLED 336's, designed as sunstripes, dominating the backwall.
"At the same time beams appeared to come out of the heavens, crossing each other like an alien invasion - projected by the innovative PR Lighting XR-200, XR-300 and PR-5000 Beam. The booth design, by Focon's Jens Ottenhus, in combination with Gunnar Loose's intelligent programming, brought an enthusiastic response from the customers."
The newly released Eos v2.0 software, which introduces a new Magic Sheet function, will be available for demonstration. Designed to make programming even easier with Eos-line control desks, Magic Sheets allow users to set up customised, interactive live/blind displays organise and work with channels in ETC's traditional tombstone view or via channel symbols.
Eos v2.0 software is released simultaneously with the latest addition to the Eos control desk line, the Eos Titanium, which was first seen at Prolight + Sound in April and which uses new hardware and features to make designing and programming even easier.
Also on the stand and available for demonstration will be the new 50W ETC Source Four Mini; and Source Four LED Studio HD.
At 23cm long and weighing just 740g, t
Following on from the successful launch of two new products at Prolight+Sound, Visual Productions now bring these direct to the UK market: CueluxPro software lighting control and the B-Station, networked button interface. These two new products really complement and enhance the current Visual Productions product line.
CueluxPro is an advanced and scalable software lighting control application. The software is designed to control medium to large lighting installations, for both architectural and live entertainment situations. CueluxPro works in combination with the CueCore and IoCore as its DMX and IO interfaces and with the new B-Station user-interface.
As with the popular Cuelux softw
The booth was permanently packed with visitors wanting to be among the first to witness the global launch of the new IP65-rated G-Spot, and make sure it lived up to its claim of superior optics and weather-resistant body. A constant stream of water splashing across the chassis left no-one in any doubt.
But equally important, SGM has built up a family of loyal and highly-motivated resellers during the intervening period and the company CEO was able to welcome partners from across the world to a pre-show dinner, awards presentation and distributor conference, so they were primed for action when the curtains were raised on the opening day.
Once again, Peter Johansen, made sure everybody got what they came for - with a bol
Sharing its stand with German distributor Atlantic Audio the centrepiece was the global premier of the keenly-anticipated MLA Mini loudspeaker array. Partners and customers from around the world flooded the booth - all wanting to be among the first to witness this third generation deployment of Martin Audio's unique and award-winning Multi-cellular technology, following the successful launch of the original platform at the same show three years earlier.
Stated Martin Audio marketing director, James King, "The introduction of MLA in 2010, MLA Compact in 2012, and now MLA Mini at this show, represented to customers a complete offering of venue solutions. Not surprisingly, interest was overwhelming with all our distrib
Chroma-Q's new award-winning Inspire high output, RGBW colour-changing LED House Light and AutoLED II ultra-bright (16,430 lumens) daylight white LED moving head fixture will share their UK tradeshow debut at PLASA Focus 2013. Also on show from Chroma-Q are a selection of other intelligent LED lighting products including the Studio Force multi-purpose and Studio Force Phosphor broadcast-sector ranges of white LED fixtures available in daylight, tungsten and variable white, the hugely popular Color Force range of RGBA colour fixtur
The BR (Bass Reflex) Range made its global debut, while the MST (Modular Stadium Technology) Horn made its second tradeshow appearance, after landing at ISE in January. As well as the official launches, the show offered Funktion-One the chance to whet appetites with previews of products that are due for release later this year. The Funktion-One demo room hosted the first public showing of the company's new flagship PSM318 DJ Monitors.
Reflecting on the show, Ann Andrews said, "Frankfurt is always a really
Triple E - which has a 30-year history of inventing engineering solutions for the entertainment industry - has constructed a mock up curtain scenery display to show off the simple plug and play Wireless TracDrive unit, which attaches to the XLR socket on all TracDrive, EDrive, and SDrive motors and enables cable-free operation.
"Many venues require additional control positions or even the ability to operate anywhere in a building or auditorium so the simple 'plug and play' wireless system with a hand held pocket size remote is the answer," says Triple E's managing director David Edelstein. "It saves time and money on routing cables and literally takes a couple of minutes to connect and set u
The company will also be showcasing its new BP18 Atlas sub alongside their new portable front of
house stack that wowed the PA Experience at last years' BPM show in Birmingham, says Traction.
Traction Sound's Business Development Director Jonny Goodwillie comments: "We're very much looking forward to visiting PLASA Focus 2013 as it was here two years ago that we first announced our company and technology to the world. Having the demo room is extremely important to us as we always say that our speakers should do the ta
Brazil is a substantially developing market, now officially the world's sixth largest economy, and is set to increase its role on the world stage over the coming years with dance, performing arts, carnival and live events all central to its culture. As the host city for the two largest sporting even
Sponsoring the event are leading lighting innovators Chauvet Professional, Robe, and one of the UK's largest suppliers of technical production services, Hawthorn. The sold-out exhibition floor features new products from a number of exhibitors including Martin Audio, d&b audiotechnik, Philips Entertainment, Martin Professional, Artistic Licence, Robe, Midas, Ampetronic,
"The Euro Code 9 standards gave us pause to re-examine our entire product line; eighteen months later we have OV Truss up and ready to go. Currently available in two forms, OV Truss is a square truss with either 30 or 40 centimetre chord centres. Where is differs is in the web, we have developed a special extrusion for the web that gives a strength gain of +15% above the Code 9 standard. Length for length it's also lighter than anything comparable, and
Hoepker joins PLASA from Electronic Theatre Controls after 19 years where she oversaw ETC's trade shows and events.
PLASA CEO Matthew Griffiths comments: "Laura is a respected and highly regarded industry peer and we are so pleased to welcome her to help us grow our regional events in North America."
PLASA director of media, sales, and marketing Jackie Tien added: "We look forward to our long-time and respected industry friend joining our PLASA family!"
Hoepker can be reached at laura.hoepker@plasa.org, telephone 212-244-1505, ext. 608, and will be at PLASA Focus: Orlando May 15-16.
PLASA Focus: Orlando will be held at the Wyndham Orlando Resort Hotel May 15-16; Focus: Austin will be held at the
