The Netherlands - ISE 2012 gave Alcons Audio the opportunity to again demonstrate how pro-ribbon audio technology is bringing an ever-more lifelike experience to 3D cinema.

For the second year running, a highlight of the show was the 3D theatre, which brought together several of the leading manufacturers of 3D cinema equipment to provide a real world demonstration of their technology.

A collaboration between Alcons, DVS (who provided the server and content), Image Screens (projection screen), Infitec (3D glasses) and Lang AG (projection), visitors were treated to a range of 3D Blu-Ray and CD presentations, including Teutonic rockers The Scorpions in concert action.

The Alcons 5.1 surround system comprised a CRMS (15" LF, 8" MF, 4" pro-ribbon HF) front system and 12 CRMS surround speakers (which feature 8" MF and 4" pro-ribbon HF). Powered and control

USA - Sensaphonics has announced the opening of its new online store. The new e-commerce site is primarily devoted to parts and accessories for Sensaphonics custom earphones and earplugs, and features a secure checkout system powered by Volusion.

"When our clients are on tour, the need for items like replacement cables and desiccant is obviously not limited to business hours," notes Michael Santucci, Sensaphonics founder and president. "Our secure online store allows our customers to order the supplies they need online, anytime."

Notable accessories available online include the dB Check in-ear sound level analyzer, Dry & Store Zephyr desiccant system, and earphone supplies such as Oto-Ease lubricant, cleaning wipes and earpiece soft wraps. Replacement parts run the gamut from earphone cables and cleaning tools to Pelican storage cases and replacement filter

Germany - The Avolites Group takes to the road for 2012's first international trade fair for the events technology sector covering a broad spectrum of products and services with their German partner Trendco in Hall 11, stand D50 and C50 at ProLight+Sound in Frankfurt. Avolites Media Ltd. will exhibit its new Ai Media Server in tandem with Avolites Ltd's Sapphire Touch and Titan Mobile lighting control consoles.

Recently, Avolites Media Ltd bought the intellectual property rights to manufacture and distribute the Ai Media Server worldwide. Prolight + Sound offers visitors the chance to view the future of this advanced and fast developing system. As well as demonstrating the currently available Ai Media Server, visitors will be granted the first preview of Sapphire Media. The Sapphire Media Live Video Controller creates a new class of show media controllers unlike anything seen be

Germany - ProLight + Sound 2012 will be the scene of a major celebration for MDG and cast C.Adolph & RST Distribution as the two companies celebrate a long-standing association. The show marks the 20th anniversary of MDG's appointment of cast C.Adolph & RST Distribution GmbH as its distributor for Germany, Switzerland and Austria.

"Twenty years in Germany in association with the same people and the same company is a real cause for celebration," says MDG's Martin Michaud. "Cast has been fantastic in support of MDG products and the team, led by Heinz Siller, have worked tirelessly to bring MDG to a wide range of customers. Prolight & Sound is an opportunity to celebrate the journey so far and to look forward to the next twenty years."

MDG will be displaying the latest version of its dual mode Digital Atmospheric Generator, theONE complete with its adaptable t

USA - Roger Keim who heads up the marketing department at d&b audiotechnik Inc. knew exactly why the company wanted to have a presence at the first ever PLASA Focus in Austin Texas.

"The idea of regional trade events is very appealing to d&b audiotechnik because of the more personalised opportunities it affords our clients. We also recognise that the tie-up between ESTA and the PLASA organisation can only strengthen the industry's voice at government level; so we felt it was doubly important to support this inaugural show."

The d&b audiotechnik booth featured two distinctly different loudspeakers this year, both from the Black range. Part of the T-Series is the T10, a multifunctional cabinet that can be used either as a line array or as a high directivity point source loudspeaker. The HF driver is fitted to a unique waveguide horn producing vertical linesource direct

Germany - Italian loudspeaker manufacturer dBTechnologies will unveil a wide selection of new products at this year's ProLight+Sound exhibition, welcoming visitors to its now established 780sqm booth space in Hall 8, G70 shared with cousin brand RCF.

Preferring to keep full information under its collective hat however, the dBTechnologies team reveals just a few choice details prior to the show giving customers a taster of what they have to look forward to later on this month.

Amongst the professional audio offerings, comes the upgraded Opera DX line, billed as the next chapter of the celebrated Opera series' 12-year success story. With a level of reliability that is expected of the well-established range, Opera DX benefits from the latest available technology, and has been augmented with in-house developed digipro G2 power amps and other state-of-the-art features which improve

Germany - d3 will introduce its software only version, d3 Designer, to press and public during ProLight + Sound 2012.

d3 was previously only available as a software/hardware bundle. The new d3 Designer is a software only solution that has all the powerful features of d3 but with the outputs water marked. Made specially for show creators, content designers, projectionists, project managers and other video production professionals, d3 Designer is billed as "the most advanced integrated production platform in the market".

Shows created on d3 Designer are transferable to both 2U and 4U d3 production systems. d3's real-time stage simulator also allows for pre-vis of moving screens and props, "giving full control of your show - on the train, or the plane, or even in your hotel".

(Jim Evans)

UK - Harting's new Ha-VIS preLink(R) interconnection system offers a new installation concept for data network cabling according to ISO/IEC 1180.1, and is suited to heavy-duty applications in theatre backstage and upstage areas.

The new connection technology simplifies cabling, saves installation time and enables extensions and conversions without incurring significant interruptions to existing operations.

With the Ha-VIS preLink(R) system, the data cable is first assembled in the preLink(R) termination block, which then simply snaps into the preLink(R) standard RJ45 jacks or optional Harting plug modules. The preLink(R) cables can be either terminated in the field or factory supplied pre-terminated in a reliable, performance-guaranteed, pre-tested state.

Installation flexibility is enhanced by easy replacement and 'drag through' in narrow ducting of the small cross-section

Germany - Merging Technologies will be exhibiting at Prolight + Sound on stand #8.0 G18A. Horus, Merging's new flagship I/O system is now being delivered and is already making its mark on the live sound market, just as it is with high end music recording and broadcast. For this reason, Merging Technologies decided to exhibit in Frankfurt on its own stand rather than that of a local distributor.

Horus has been designed as a stand-alone converter of the highest quality, but its utility is hugely increased by becoming an IP 'node' on a RAVENNA network. Combined with Merging's MassCore, performance and flexibility takes on another dimension and allows comprehensive routing and control of the astonishing I/O capability of the converter, says the company.

This highly scalable solution has applications right across the industry from the simplest location recording and mastering to ma

Germany - Nexo has chosen the Frankfurt ProLight+Sound expo to share its new system design with the professional audio rental community. The show will see the world preview of its STM Series, talked of as the new flagship product for the company.

Turning its back on the dominant line-array trend, Nexo has taken modularity as its central design concept. It promises advanced formatting options by combining four separate loudspeaker elements - main, bass and sub cabinets, with an all-purpose 'omni' 15° option. Building on the discrete main and bass cabinets, STM can be configured at will; from arrays of main cabinets only, to main+bass, or to bass+main+bass. Adding the dedicated subbass cabinets, either in the arrays or as ground-stacks, further increases the options, and the omni units complete the coverage pattern, whatever the scale of the system.

"The modularity of S

Germany - Allen & Heath will be unveiling a new ZED mixer at ProLight+Sound, Frankfurt, as well as showcasing the new GLD digital mixing system, and other recent additions to the ZED and Xone ranges.

Exhibiting in Hall 8.0 on Stand C22, Allen & Heath will be launching the ZED60-10FX, a new mixer based on the top-selling ZED-10FX with the addition of premium quality 60mm faders.

The ZED60-10FX is a compact, portable mixer for solo artists and small bands. Two of the four mono channels have high impedance jack inputs that can take a normal line level or a low level input from a guitar pickup, so guitars can be plugged straight into the mixer without the need for DI boxes. Two stereo inputs are provided for MP3/CD players or keyboards, and the mixer is equipped with configurable USB audio in/out to capture a stereo recording, XLR main stereo outputs, a flexible monitoring section

UK - Entertainment lighting specialist White Light is appearing at the Arc Show this week in London's Business Design centre.

Products from White Light's family of lighting manufacturers will be on stand M36 and will feature units from Coemar, Core Lighting, i-Pix, Interactive Technologies, Leader Light, Prism Projection and Wireless Solutions.

White Light is also sponsoring the foyer by supplying LeaderLight's new series of street lights. Lighting designer Durham Marenghi will also be using i-Pix BB4s and Leader Light606's, as well as placing a giant light bulb in the foyer to take things back to basics.

Coemar's Reflection Series will make an appearance in the form of the Reflection LEDko Full Spectrum, an innovative 'Multi-LED' light source producing a uniform beam with no pixels or dots and full spectrum colour mixing and the Reflection LEDko VariWhite.

On display from

Denmark - The Exterior 400 Image Projector from Martin Professional is a fully-weatherproofed LED image projector with over 7000 lumens of power that can effectively integrate dynamic logos, textures and other graphics into outdoor lighting designs for greater visual impact.

Housing up to six easy-to-replace designs (gobos), the Exterior 400 Image Projector is suitablel for commercial logo projection or textured projections in architectural environments. Gobos are fully customizable for the ultimate in design freedom.

Up to eight interchangeable colours allows for complete colour customization. High-quality dichroic colour filters enable rich and long-lasting colour projections.

A range of programmable effects such as colour scrolling, image rotation, focus and iris effects can be used to add an extra element of eye-catching animation. The luminaire is also fully dimmable to

Germany - In an unprecedented move, GLP has announced that the LED light engine used in their impression Spot One and impression Wash One fixtures now carries a full five year warranty.

The replaceable LED engine gives the highest light output from a single RGB source in a Spot or Wash based fixture on the market today - and to ensure that customers are confident in this latest technology, GLP have issued this new warranty, says the company. Being built on a 'plug and play' integration level, the light engine itself is easy enough to replace, should it ever be required.

GLP's business director, Kasper Gissel, commented, "This five year warranty is something we are very proud to share with our customers. We know the reliability of our fixture range and the component parts, and we also know from our customers that they are fed up with the wild and wacky claims we have seen

Germany - At Prolight+Sound 2012, Gerriets will present new screens including OptiBlack - a nearly black front/rear screen for soft-edge projections, and the transparent matte Frost, "a perfect diffusion film for backlighting".

Also showing will be the new, heavy-duty track system - the Cargo series - suitable for precise maneuvering of LED video walls and large heavy scenery in four profile/load rating sizes S/M/L/XL for 250-1200kg.

Large-screen wall systems Tube and MegaScreen featuring top or bottom rollers operated with virtually silent motors will be also demonstrated. Enlarged dance and event floor spectrum: Vario Ergodance, for user-friendly permanent and portable applications, with optimum shock absorption and Gerriets' inherently flame-retardant stretch fabrics Heavy-, Molton- & Muslin-stretch which offer individual stretching factors for wrinkle-free surfac

UK - London-based distributor Smoke Factory UK will launch it's new range of LED fixtures at PLASA Focus: Leeds (17 -18 April) where the company is exhibiting for the first time this year. Alongside the new Kandolite LED range will be the full range of Smoke Factory haze and fog machines.

On show for the very first time in the UK will be the Kandolite range of LED fixtures. These Chinese-manufactured units have been built to rigorous European specifications and to a high build quality, says the company.

Also on view will be both 36 and 60, LED 3W PAR fixtures. Plus RGBAW 3W Battens and Cyc Lights, outdoor 1W and 3W LED IP67 Wall Wash units. A powerful moving Wash Light completes the range.

"The Smoke Factory range will feature the ever-dependable Tourhazer 2, the original industry standard for Haze machines. Alongside will be the CaptainD, Data2, Scotty2 and the rest of

Germany - For d&b audiotechnik 2011 was not only the year they celebrated 30 years but also when their Black product range was joined by the new White range. From 21 to 24 March 2012 at the Messe Frankfurt in hall 8.0 stand J46, d&b will again be celebrating by giving centre stage to several new additions within their Black range of loudspeakers as well as highlighting the xS and xA-Series from their White range of integration cabinets.

Elements from the established T, J and E-Series within the Black range will be displayed alongside the newly introduced teenyweeny E4 and E5 loudspeakers. And being typically d&b there will be" a little, well actually quite large, something up their sleeve in the form of the brand new V-Series to whet the appetite".

(Jim Evans)

Germany - Two new ArKaos innovations will be on display on the ArKaos stand at ProLight+Sound as the company presents its new ArKaos Hub network monitor and a new Video Mapping Software.

ArKaos Hub is an application specifically designed to monitor the state of multiple servers running MediaMaster in fixture mode. ArKaos Hub's key function is as a real-time backup system that gives instantaneous protection against server failure.

"A mid-show server failure has potentially drastic effects on your live show and takes time to restore as you struggle to re-establish the physical connections between projector and backup server. Enter ArKaos Hub!" the company says.

ArKaos Hub monitors servers in real-time and, in the event of server failure, automatically issues a configurable command to the video switchers, instructing them to re-establish connections between projectors

Germany - Hall Stage are gearing up to exhibit at ProLight+Sound in Frankfurt (March 21 - 24). Amongst the products on show will be the new Chaindrive system for T60 & T70 track systems, which enables heavy curtain motorisation through tight and complex curves, even in 'rearfold' format - without the need for additional and expensive off-stage storage space, says the company.

Also on the stand will be samples of SKYDECK wire grid floor systems - with which Hall Stage has recently completed a 1,200 square metre installation in the UK - and the acoustically tested and analysed range of acouStac acoustic banners and rollers.

Visit Hall Stage at ProLight+Sound - Hall: 9 / Stand: F82

(Claire Beeson)

UK - PLASA Focus: Leeds will see English Braids of Malvern exhibit for the first time. On show will be their range of rope that they have been manufacturing for the Theatre, Film and Entertainment world for over 40 years.

As well as the polyester ropes they will also have on show their new range of Technora ropes produced in 2.5mm through to 24mm. Developed primarily for the entertainment sector, the range is having a lot of success in rigging applications and are "a perfect replacement for steel-wire," says the company.

Steve Hayman, sales manager says: "Technora ropes are ideal for applications where low stretch and high strength are required. The product can be used at temperatures of 200 degrees centigrade for long periods and has a thermal decomposition of 500 degrees". He continues, "We are very pleased with the feedback we have received from rig

UK - Pro Light Concepts Ltd is a rapidly expanding supplier of innovative lighting and sound equipment to the entertainment industry. On display on stand S-D12 at PLASA Focus: Leeds will be product displays from its vast range of brands.

Staff will be on hand to discuss the products available from Pro Light's office and distribution centre in Lancashire for worldwide dispatch. The stand will also feature many new products, including the LED Quad colour Q Color and Color Storm LED Battens along with the Xperior Platinum 5R Spot from iSolution. Many other new items from eLumen8 will be launched at PLASA Focus including fixtures specifically designed for theatre, stage and T.V.

UK - Canford is providing PLASA Focus: Leeds debuts for the new, enhanced Tecpro Wireless handsets and TW403 wired-to-wireless interface; the impressive new RTS BTR-240 wireless comms system; CAT5E stageboxes and multicore cables in several lengths up to 75m; and last but not least the clever EMO E810 LED racklight that interfaces with comms systems to flash letting the operator know of a call inbound.

Canford will also show a selection from their comprehensive range of cables including the D'n'A series which redesigned all their most popular audio cables including loudspeaker types to handle both analogue and AES digital audio.

The new enhanced Tecpro Wireless beltpacks offer full Duplex Operation and licence-free operation in the UHF frequency band. The powerful new handsets can supply up to 200mW with a 400m max Range and now benefit from a range of enhancements. New featur

USA / UK - Peavey has announced the availability of the Impulse 261, a wide-range high-output permanent install two-way loudspeaker system designed for bars and restaurants where music clarity and aesthetics are a primary importance.

With two 6.5" woofers and 1" titanium dome tweeter mounted on a waveguide, the system is capable of excellent controlled coverage, with a hi-fi sound character, says the company. The speaker system is protected from overload by independent overload protection for the woofer and the tweeter. This coupled with an advanced design crossover network provide smooth, yet clear sound with low distortion and reliability. Connection is via a locking Euro (Phoenix type) connector with screw terminals.

Features include: Two-way surface mount speaker system; dual 6.5" high-performance woofers; 1" metal dome tweeter with Neodymium magnet on

Germany - At ProLight+Sound 2012 Havells-Sylvania will be showcasing its range of Photo Optic lamps for the professional stage and studio lighting market.

Havells-Sylvania will be in Hall 9, on stand 0F42 demonstrating the benefits of its SPG (Special Product Group) lamp products, throughout the event. Products on display will include the full BriteArc range of Photo Optic Discharge Lamps, as well as the PAR56 LED designed for underwater applications.

Lieven Maes, international director of the special product group comments, "This is an extremely important show for the international market and we are looking forward to demonstrating our products to the key decision makers in the industry. Our comprehensive range of Photo Optic lamps is suitable for all actual applications. This 'Made in Belgium' BriteArc range exceeds even the highest standards."

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