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The Project System brings to the table a flexible estimating platform that will be used by the National Accounts Division of Muzak to speed up its estimating process on system installations around the count
The Project System brings to the table a flexible estimating platform that will be used by the National Accounts Division of Muzak to speed up its estimating process on system installations around the count
The greatest innovation is the WL5, which Beyma launches to the market as the best solution for the high frequency design of Line Array Systems. This model is composed of two components: A specially designed high frequency compression driver, based in the CP-755/ND but in a much more compact size for optimum assembling, with 108dB and 80 W AES, and a simple but effective wave guide which transforms the circular aperture of the compression driver into a rectangular surface, without excessive angle aperture to provide minimum vertical dispersion to the acoustic wavefront. The design fulfills the curvature requiremen
Like the passive version, the Line 212-SP is available as a 65° and a 90° version. One unique feature of the Line 212 Systems is the patented FLC technology which causes a targeted dispersion pattern which already begins in the lower frequency spectrum. If necessary, the horn-loaded extremely compact full-range system Line 212 can be supplemented with additional subwoofers. The new double 15" subwoofer SW 215E, also available as an SP version (self-powered), is especially well-suited for this. Using stacking foot grooves on the top and the side of the SW 215E, the Line 212 systems can be set up for stand-alone or cluster use. Both systems can be opera
FL15 is the mid-bass of the system, incorporating both a 500W/RMS power amp and a 300 +100 W/RMS power amp, used to power the FL 10, by way of a four-channel speaker cable. The result of combining the two units is a complete full-range speaker system.
FL18 sub-bass is a bass reflex unit driven by an 18" B&C woofer, togeth
The Vector iControl is designed around the Comp
Vivien is an integrated solution for event design and rollout, designed to meet the needs of planners and designers servicing corporate events, special functions, incentive meetings, tradeshows and parties. The program is built on a specialized CAD engine that allows users to design any space in 3D. The Vivien 3D library contains a comprehensive collection of items, including tables, chairs, décor, AV, architectural, banquet, and staging items. Users simply click and drag the items into their virtual space. Everything is tracked by a database and paperwork component for issuing floor plans, layouts, reports, order sheets, schedules, and renderings.
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Receptor's mixer-like architecture combines up to 16 different audio sources, which can be either internal VSTi instruments or external analogue/digital inputs. Each source is then routed through its own inline effects matrix, allowing three VST plug-ins to be
The changes start with the front plate, machined from 10mm thick aluminium block. Superior airflow has been achieved as well as making the amplifier more robust. According to the manufacturer, everything about the amplifiers has been upgraded from transparent output limiting through components to general design and layout. The result, the company says, is improved reliability and sonic performance - with no price increase.
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Dynaudio Acoustics has put great effort into designing a pair of subwoofers that are able to withstand resonance within the enclosure due to low-end frequency response, thus ensuring a more precise output. With a total frequency response of 22Hz - 200Hz and a 500W amplifier, AIR Base 12 delivers a lot of
The Chroma-Q Color Block DB4 LED fixture features a modular design, comprehensive fixing options and advanced effects engine, allowing users to create a versatile LED system using stock of just one fixture type. The product will be shown its many configurations and fixing options.
Also launching this year from Chroma-Q is the 4Play - a fault-tolerant, self-healing 4-way DMX buffer designed to fully isolate all outputs from each other. Supplied with 4 x 5 pin connectors, each output is separately generated and boosted from the origin
Manufactured in a heavy nylon weave - with a generous provision of pockets - the bags incorporate the famous Denon DJ graphic. Now in production, the new bags will be available from distributors with effect from this month's PLASA Show in London.
Said D&M Pro Europe's David Atkinson: "This is the first time we have supplied kit with their own bespoke, branded bags, and I must say they look fabulous." UDG (Ultimate DJ Gear) started out four years a go with the production of the SoftBag. Many DJs - such as Tiesto, Carl Cox and Paul van Dyk - are using its products, and using this feedback UDG is striving tow
As with the company's established CM-Series Low Voltage controllers, the DM4 and DM8 are each packaged in rugged, compact (3U) rackmount chassis, ideal for touring, theatre, corporate, festival or installation applications. Like the CM-Series, both controllers are automation-ready for integration with intelligent rigging control systems such as the IBEXtm Programmable Hoist Controller.
Direction control is available via front panel switches or by optional remote handset, plus remote and linkable GO and E-stop functions. The DM4 four-channel unit has Cee-type output connectors and the DM8 has Socapex-type connectors; truss-mounting spl
All loudspeakers have been analyzed in the EASE computer for
The new Hippotizer family builds on that success, offering new functionality and increased power to meet the expectations of even the most demanding designer, and further stretching the possibilities of digital media. At the same time, the Hippotizer remains rugged, reliable and easy to use.
The new Hippotizer family consists of three members all built around the same Generation 2 technology. All three offer a fully hardware-accelerated graphics engine
The new system user tools include the release of JBL's new Version 3.0 digital signal processing library of presets for Vertec systems. Offering incremental improvements in acoustical performance, the new presets provide improved mutual-coupling characteristics, both on and off axis, for arrays of all sizes, say JBL. Phase linearity between the low and mid frequency sections has been improved for all models, offering better coherence throughout the crossover region. Passband filters have been optimized to reduce minimum-phase effects, and reduce the number of e.
The company, which sells 3D video creation and imaging systems and is itself a specialist 3D content creator for a host of blue-chip clients, is showing LCD monitors which display stereoscopic video via a special interlaced video signal format. Each screen is retro-fitted with a filter which creates the illusion of a 3D image that appears to leap out of the screen.
The screens join the company's existing range of stereoscopic imaging devices, which includes a Sharp laptop - the first laptop available off the shelf with
The standard package includes a 48-channel D-Show console, a full snapshot-based automation system which can store all console channel and parameter settings, channel facilities that include two dynamics processors, 4-band parametric EQ and delay and hand-calibrated microphone preamps.
Digidesign's expandable DSP mix engine architecture provides almost literally unlimited scope for adding effects and dynamics processors with plug-ins. The same effects
The key component is a completely new 5 inch mid/high driver that eliminates the need for a compression driver, and lowers the LF crossover point to just 600Hz below which a ported 12 inch LF driver takes over. The 5 inch device, developed in-house at Function-One's Surrey, UK base, is mounted on a miniaturized, dedicated Axehead-loaded waveguide and the promise of the complete package is a combination of high efficiency and excellent projection and imaging.
The enclosure shape has been optimized to recess a wall bracket for n
A complete InMotion 3D / CyberHoist system consists of InMotion 3D object-oriented software, an unlimited number of 1/2-tonne Verlinde CyberHoist motors, an Ethernet network (DataMotion), a dedicated power distribution system (PowerMotion) and the human element - a programmer/operator.
It is designed specifically for mov
A large-scale DJ mixer 'shoot-out', conducted by Funktion-One some 18 months ago that involved an informal panel of interested listeners from around the industry, revealed differences in both sound quality and control interface. "We tested mixers from all the major manufacturers," explains Funktion-One's Tony Andrews. "There were only two mixers that everyone agreed delivered acceptable sound quality, and one of those was Formula Sound's PM100. We then worked with Formula Sound to refine the layout with features that working DJs really
The MPA 82000, which MTi says will replace a typical 12-16 unit amplifier rack, offers 8 x 500W or 8 x 1000W power amplifier modules, in any combination, in a 3U rackmount unit that weighs in at 58lb (26 kg). It's aimed at both the installation and touring / rental markets. The amplifier features the unique ICEpower power conversion technology, made under licence from Bang & Olufsen ICEpower A/S.
A built-in 8-channel DSP controller provides a full 8x8 matrix, EQ, crossover, delay, limiter and volume, with global delay of up to 8 seconds. Settings can be stored in 16 user presets. Via an RS485 interface, up to 16 MPA 82000s
Aimed at the midrange rental company and installation markets, a brand new MADI card is largely responsible for the dramatic price reduction, by providing a fully digital link from stage to FOH for up to 100m of coax cable, where previously 50m was the maximum run -dispensing with the need for expensive optical fibre.
The worksurface has the D5's instantly familiar and distinctive look - although there is slightly less of it, as the new console provides two (rather than three) input fader sections, each with eight faders, and offers a maximum of 224 inputs and 224 outputs. It shares the D5's built-in dynamics, EQ, matrix, eff
Pandora's Box is a powerful media server, joining the new generation of digital lighting / video convergence technologies. Using multi-layer technology, its 3D rendering process allows one image layer to be used as a background while layering or fading other images on top. 3D rotation allows keystone correction even at extreme projection angles. Up to 9 separate layers can be created with soft crossfading of layers, variable tilting and zooming of images, RGB colour mixing, an extensive 3D effects library, 3D point-of-view shifting, perspective or orthogonal view selection, and firewire or optional capturecard input.
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The Product Excellence Awards at the PLASA show have been a popular feature of the event for many years, highlighting the significance of the show as a focus for new developments for the industry. To reinforce this role, the awards have undergone an important change for 2004 with the focus being much more on genuine innovation and have been relaunched as the PLASA Awards for Innovation. The previous assessment criteria, which segmented the nominations into sectors, has been removed so that products were not judged within category lines, but on the grounds of their innovation alone. The judges looked for