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The Showtec Indigo 6500 is an LED moving spot head with a 120W LED chip light source, which the company says gives similar light output to a 400W discharge lamp. The fixture features two gobo wheels, two colour wheels (one fixed and one rotating and indexable, along with iris, rotating prism, shutter and strobe functions.

An LED RGB single colour wash light, the Showtec Expression 5500 employs 38 3W RGB LEDs, giving a tight 10 degree beam with fast smooth movement. The unit also offers Dim4 technology to provide a dimming curve like that of a halogen lamp, and includes pre-programmed colour temperatures.

The Expression 550's big brother, the Expression 33000 Zoom has a wide zoom function from 8 degree to 40

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On display will be the latest Apex NEO XD wedges from Radian, including the Apex NEO 1200XD & 1500XD. These two-way monitors use Radian high-powered Neodymium coaxial 12" & 15" speakers respectively, with 3"diaphragms and 2" exit compression drivers. Including new XD technology, LMC says the new monitors yield a very high quality frequency response, adding that they are designed for live and installed sound applications that require a high performance, portable monitor system solution.

In addition, a selection of Radian Audio diaphragms will be on display. Designed and manufactured to have equivalent or better performance than the original, state LMC, these diaphragms are available for a wide variety of JBL compression drivers.

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The stand (S-A11) will have multiple Si Compact consoles for visitors to experience with specialists from both Sound Technology and Soundcraft on hand to demonstrate the desks.

The Vi1 console, now well established in venues and the hire stock of the UK's leading PA rental companies, will also feature on the stand.

Positioned as the digital mixing solution for all sizes of sound company or user, the Si Compact Series brings all the experience of Soundcraft's digital mixing platforms to a very affordable price level for tour sound, corporate event, house of worship and theatre applications, amongst others.

With full DSP functionality built-in to a small-footprint c

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At PLASA Focus: Leeds 2011, Nicolaudie Group will launch what it calls "the dimmer switch of the 21st century", in the shape of its brand new range of DMX touch sensitive controllers, the Nicolaudie STICK2, LumiDesk Touch and Daslight Pad, with sleek, glass-fronted designs.

The controllers feature 128 DMX channels and come preloaded with RGB effects. The top button allows for the unit to be switched on and off. The Dimmer, Color and Scene selection can be made using the left and right arrow buttons, and effects can be quickly modified with the easy to use included control software.

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The Event Backdrape system has been specifically designed, says Maltbury, "to transform a simple venue into a sophisticated and beautiful area on a budget". Event Backdrape comes with shimmering ivory drapes, suiting it to backdrops for weddings, parties and other special events. The Event Backdrape can b

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A database-driven resource for videos from across the industry, the LSi Video Hub aims to become a one-stop location for LSi Online's 20,000+ global audience to source and view industry-related video content. Visitors to the site can search by category, tag and keyword to refine their searches.

Beginning with almost 100 videos, the site will grow as more companies put their video content directly in front of LSi's regular online audience. With more than 20,000 regular users making an average of 240,000 page requests at LSi Online each month, and a wide-ranging global appeal, LSi Online is ideally placed to present video resources for product training, demo

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Pop Music - Pet Shop Boys have been confirmed as the main support for Take That's record-breaking summer Progress tour. Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe will join the reformed boy band for the series of gigs starting on 27 May in Sunderland. Pet Shop Boy

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Despite an energetic and high profile campaign co-ordinated by BEIRG (British Entertainment Industry Radio Group, whose sponsors include many leading pro audio manufacturers and PLASA) and the Save Our Sound Campaign, the impending changes in frequency allocations are set to lead to a vast proportion of wireless equipment currently in use becoming redundant. Meanwhile, the Government's proposed compensation for this has been denounced as both inadequate and over-complicated, with the need to provide proof of ownership a particularly thorny issue.

With London 2012 and the digital switchover itself rapidly approaching, the im

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PLDA UK co-ordinator Sarah Adams approached ACSP's managing director Peter Keiderling to ask if the company would be willing to stage a Workshop for its members. After consulting PLDA member and former president, Paul Traynor of Light Bureau, who suggested that control would be a topic of much interest to the members, this set the theme for what turned out to be a somewhat cold but enjoyable evening at Somerset House.

Traynor contacted Somerset House director Gwyn Miles and lighting designer Patrick Woodroffe - who the company had worked with on providing the architectural lighting scheme for the venue's Edmond J Safra Fountain Court - to request permission to use the ins

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The Redback Wallmount Dimmer was first shown in prototype at PLASA last year and is now in full production. Sporting a new colour LCD touch screen display, these new units offer world class performance including 6,12 and 24 channels models, RDM and the option of mixing relay channels and dimmers in the same package.

To supplement the Redback Wallmount units, LSC are also showing for the first time anywhere, the new Redback control plates for architectural control. These plates interface simply to a Redback Wallmount unit and come in single, two or six button varieties. Within the Redback these plates can be configured to

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Adapted to standard entertainment mounting and rigging systems, Mobile Air Wall enables an exhibitor to create a quality meeting space in noisy environments like tradeshows.

Mobile Air Wall is the latest addition to Event Acoustics' range of sound isolation solutions, which includes the TexLNT sheep wool baffles that have been deployed to great effect at venues such as the Ahoy in Rotterdam for the North Sea Jazz Festival.

Designed to be hung from standard entertainment mounting and rigging systems, Mobile Air Wall enables an exhibi

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The I-Motion Basic S show controller is recommended for setups with up to 60 drives. It offers the comfortable control and operation of all systems involving D8, D8 Plus and C1 drives at both fixed and variable speeds as well as supporting mixed configurations of all kinds. Depending upon the drives and controllers used, entire systems can be realized from SIL1 to SIL3. The option also exists of integrating existing drives and other stage machinery.

The controller corresponds in its basic

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Ferrante says, "I am very pleased to be returning to High End Systems. The recent and upcoming fixture releases along with the product road map are very exciting. It is thrilling to get back to the customers and employees I worked with when previously with High End."

"Chris Ferrante brings with him a wealth of experience and expertise within our industry," commented Bill Morris, CEO of High End Systems. "We will leverage Chris' experience to help meet and exceed our worl

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Molyneux, who was the first non-Japanese UK MD, will be responsible for all of Sharp's European sales subsidiaries and Sharp Microelectronics Europe, as well as business planning, business structure improvements, PR, branding and environmental policy.

Paul Molyneux's replacement as managing director and president of Sharp UK will be Paul Hide, current operations director and director HE Division of Sharp UK. Hide has been with Sharp for five years

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Today's stage designs call for lighting solutions which deliver high brightness and high contrast beams to avoid shadow creation, as well as more compact luminaire and fixture designs to improve creative choice and design flexibility. Addressing this need, Philips Entertainment lamps has developed a powerful and lightweight, compact system - Philips MSR Platinum 35.

In line with the Philips MSD Platinum Reflector lamps - introduced in 2010 - this lamp system provides a powerful tool to create intense lighting. The short arc generates sparkling, bright light. Depending on the application, and with an ultra-compact design suitable for smaller stage

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Chris Higgs started work in the entertainment industry in 1973 and has since worked in most sectors, providing rigging and flying effects for drama, opera and ballet in both subsidised and commercial theatre, for television and for concert touring throughout the 80's and 90's. In 1998, Chris started Total Training at Total Fabrications, part of what is now the Total Solutions Group in the UK.

Higgs will be presenting two keynote sessions including Working at Height and participating in panel sessions at the show. Higgs said, "I am looking forward to discussing som

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AED Rent is investing more than 1m euros to add to ITS existing inventory with the majority being used to increase their level of the impression RZ 120 Zoom fixture by 300 pieces, and to make an initial investment in 100 pieces of the new impression Spot One, GLP's new high powered RGB LED Spot fixture. With this new investment, the total inventory of GLP moving lights at AED Rent will be in the region of 2,000 fixtures.

Glenn Roggeman, CEO of AED Rent commented, "The demand that we have seen for the GLP impression range, and particularly the RZ 120 has been incredible and so investing in more was a simple decision for us. We have found the entire GLP r

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Austin City Limits Live at The Moody Theatre is a $40m, 2700 + person capacity venue on three levels. It offers in-house sound and a video control studio as well as a 40 automated head lighting package with innovative optics, and digital consoles plus a conventional lighting package for TV.

"The Robert Juliat Victors are dedicated primarily to our concerts," says Billy Heaslip. "As production manager, I knew that we'd be doing TV lighting beyond live concerts and I wanted an instrument with a excellent even fie

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"A lot of our clients are show producers who are very particular about the quality of the show call," he said. "When it comes down to a vital cue, you don't want even the slightest chance of interference. They trust Clearcom systems as it means they go into a show feeling more comfortable, knowing that they're always in control.

"We've had great feedback on the Tempest, it's one of those products that just tells your client that you're prepared to invest a bit more for ultimate dependability."

(Jim Evans)

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The director of application support is the worldwide technical liaison between EAW's customers and their sales and product development organizations. This role includes direct oversight and management of the ASG resources that are located throughout the world. In this position, Stevens will lead, refine and further develop the pre- and post-sale contribution of EAW to system design, support and optimization and will reinvigorate the role that education plays in the growth of the

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TiMax SoundHub controls zone level, EQ and matrixed delay for the main FOH system comprised of seven d&b Q1s distributed around a central d&b Q10 hoisted across the proscenium, supported by two L Acoustic MTD115s and a further two L Acoustics MTD112s providing side-fill back and front.

A total of 24 Tannoy 8" speakers act as delay-fills to the upper and lower house and to the balcony, with fill by three EAW JF50S enclosures. Two 2 d&b J-subs and two L Acoustic

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After the final whistle was blown on the filming of all sports at BBC London Television Centre, Richard Martin Lighting (RML) continues to support lighting designer Roger Williams on the show which is now filmed at its new home ground - MediaCityUK.

Located at Salford Quays, Peel Media's bespoke community features one of the biggest HD studio developments in Europe. MediaCityUK has been designed around the specific needs of the media and creative industries with the vision to become a 'world class hub for innovation and content creation'.

The show's lighting specification comprised of Stage Colour 300, Alpha Wash 575, VL1000TS and Alpha Spot 575 HPE.

(Jim Evans)

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The ease of use and flexibility of Le Mark's StudioTak Studio Vinyl offered the right combination for a seamless floor covering. Used in various places around the stage and set, StudioTak supports the stunning high gloss finish of the existing stage floor, giving a shimmer and almost water-like, gloss effect.

(Jim Evans)

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Making a successful debut last year and finding his feet in one of the closest-fought motor racing contests in the UK, Goff is this year poised to challenge for the championship with his characteristic enthusiasm and determination.

The ELF Renault Clio Cup with Michelin series - known for its nail-biting, wheel-to-wheel finishes - is the UK's premier one-make saloon-car championship, featuring a 16 race season which runs from 2nd / 3rd April through to October.

In addition to AC-ET, other leading technology companies from the professional entertainment world join the Jack Goff Racing sponsorship roster, including Avolites, HSL Group, J&C