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The Netherlands - Atlas Cables, the engineering-led cable specialist, has launched two new installation-centric cable ranges dedicated to performance-led custom installations - Hyper si (Screened Installation) speaker cable and the Integra Duo analogue interconnect range.

With the significant increase of wireless signals around any residential or commercial property, RF pollution is the scourge for all system designers and integrators. To combat the effects of this air-bound interference on the delicate audio signals that often require long cable runs, Atlas Cables has produced a range of products dedicated to maintaining the integrity of the audio signal both within the equipment rack and from amplifier to speaker.

Hyper si is a top performing domestic and commercial speake

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The Netherlands - ISE 2016 marks the world debut of a new networkable conferencing audio solution from Shure, Microflex Advance, designed to dramatically improve the audio quality for modern conferencing applications where pristine speech intelligibility is of utmost importance.

Comprising high-quality networked ceiling and table array microphones, audio interfaces, intelligent mixing DSP and intuitive, browser-based control software, Microflex Advance draws on Shure's extensive experience in microphone, audio networking and automatic mixing technology, and packages it in a discreet, architecturally unobtrusive design. Microflex Advance significantly improves the sound quality experienced by employees in the workplace, making offices and businesses better places to work, and thereby creating a more creative and productive workforce.

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The Netherlands - Genelec is showcasing the 8430, a new addition to the Smart Active Monitor (SAM) range of products. As well as being the latest member of this series, the 8430 is also the world's first commercially-ready AoIP (Audio over Internet Protocol) studio monitor.

Six years ago at ISE 2010, Genelec demonstrated its first audio-over-IP showcase system. The showcase was selected as one of the 'Picks of ISE 2010' as it was recognised as among the best new innovations presented at the show. Since then, extensive research and development has been made and also much has happened in establishing more mature standards for audio-over-IP. This work has been actively pursued in several forums, but in particular the AES67 standard on audio-over-IP interoperability, published in 2015, is now fast gaining acceptance and is rapidly establishing audio-over-IP in the mainstream.

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Indochine X PixMob Fan Immersion

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's - 40 thousand LED pixels on a ceiling!!! Indochine's whirlwind tour transports fans to another level of the live experience - immersing them from floor to ceiling with PixMob's X4 wristbands, and an LED ceiling made entirely of its NOVA Minis! With the vision of Indochine's creative team, PixMob used its LED fan-technology to turn attendees and venues into an ocean of effects, and a starry sky of LED magic. Très très cool!

Read more about the Indochine tour in the latest issue of LSi

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The Netherlands - A 28,000 lumens laser projector, a 1.8mm bezel videowall display and the industry's most compact, 10,000 lumens laser 1-Chip DLPTM projector are among the innovations exhibited by Panasonic at ISE 2016 in Amsterdam.

The Panasonic booth features a 'Robotic Experience' or RobEx, developed in collaboration with event company XPION. Industry grade robots with 98-inch 4K resolution displays were used to create an immersive viewing experience.

In projection, Panasonic launched the PT-RZ31K, the company's highest brightness 3-Chip DLPTM projector series using SOLID SHINE laser technology. The projectors, available from autumn 2016 in both WUXGA and SXGA+, each output at 28,000 centre lumens.

Designed for rental and staging applications, the projectors offer continuous maintenance-free operation. The compact projectors are compatible with existing 3-Chip DLPT

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The Netherlands - HK Audio is debuting its new Linear 5 LTS passive mid/high unit and Linear SUB 4000 subwoofer at ISE 2016.

HK Audio is also showing off the rest of its install stable at the show, with speakers from the Elements, Linear 5, Cadis and Vortis ranges on display alongside the accompanying Lab.gruppen IPD controllers. In addition, portable PA enthusiasts can get hands-on with the brand new LUCAS NANO 608i, the first ever all-in-one-PA with an iPad-enabled mixer.

Many of the HK Audio customer system solutions that were debuted at the 2015 ISE show have also been improved and expanded upon for 2016 - making operation simpler and more efficient than ever before - and are available to view for the first time at this year's event.

Alexander Wollenberg, HK Audio product manager, said, "With our new passive Linear series speakers - especially the LTS Long Throw Sy

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The Netherlands - With the ever-increasing pace of adoption of IP based networking in AV, there is a mounting lobby for standardization and interoperability based on open standards. Consequently, the Media Networking Alliance (MNA) - the professional AV industry alliance, charged with promoting awareness and adoption of AES67, the open standard that provides for the common interchange of digital media between different IP networking platforms - is exhibiting for the first time at ISE.

MNA members and member manufacturers will be undertaking a programme of educational and communication activities and events throughout the exhibition.

Of major interest, to AV manufacturers, integrators and end users alike, will be a live demonstration of audio networking interoperability on the MNA booth (7-X230), featuring 22 commercially available networked-audio products from 11 different

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Switzerland - The picturesque town of Bulle in the Canton of Freibourg is nestled in the rocky hills that separate the French and German-speaking regions of Swizerland. Bulle, a regional economic hub, is also home to Globull, one of Swizerland's most popular and cutting edge nightclubs.

Committed to staying on the leading edge of music and lifestyle trends, Globull is constantly working to create and maintain a sharp, sleek atmosphere inside the three storey dance club. Toward this end, the club's management recently decided to install a group of Chauvet fixtures to ensure an infinite variety of looks (for a very finite budget!) in the club's mainfloor lounge/performance area.

To complete the installation, Bulle based install company, Sonart, installed a selection of Chauvet Professional Rogue RH1 Hybrids, along with Intimidator Scan LED 300 moving fixtures from Chauvet DJ

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UK - Colour Sound Experiment supplied lighting for punk duo Slaves most recent tour which culminated in a highly animated show at Brixton Academy in London, with lighting created by Francis Clegg part of design collective MIRRAD.

Francis came to the table with a scheme to match the energy and ebullience of the band's live shows.

Brixton was the biggest venue on the tour, the showcase gig and a huge deal for the rising star band, so the lighting was based on this space, but the rig also had to be adaptable and scale-able to fit all the other venues which included a round of academies and still look the business.

Says Colour Sound's H (Haydn Cruickshank), "Francis is very talented, he has an excellent eye for aesthetics and a fantastic feel for music. All his designs are fresh and interesting, and it was a great pleasure to be the supplier on the different legs of this o

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USA - When a Magnet High School for the performing arts in the San Francisco Bay area needed to upgrade its theatre it called on DSC Design of Novato, California to design an upgraded lighting system. DSC Design specified an all-LED lighting design and a new dot2 XL-F lighting console from MA Lighting.

DSC Design handled design and technical management for the high school's theatre upgrade, as well as programming classes for students and faculty. The theatre is a key component in students' performing arts studies: It is used for dramatic and musical theatre productions, dance, the orchestra and jazz band.

Part of MA Lighting's new range of compact dot2 consoles, the dot2 XL-F is durable and lightweight with intuitive operation. It includes a full programming section, master playback section, 14 fader playbacks and 28 individual playback buttons.

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Ireland - Clay Paky SuperSharpys transformed Dublin's city-centre sculpture, the Spire, into a 398ft lightsaber to celebrate the premiere of Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

As the film opened in Ireland's capital, the SuperSharpys' intensely precise beams, which are three times brighter than the previous Sharpy, illuminated the entire length of the O'Connell Street structure in vibrant blue to emulate the Jedi weapon.

Commissioned by Disney, Tom Rohan of event production house Eventco conceptualised the installation alongside lighting designers Mick Murray and Matthew Cregan. The team specified 16 SuperSharpys from Ciaran Tallon at Psi Dublin for the ambitious project, which received national press attention and brought unprecedented crowds to the monument with thousands sharing photographs across social media.

"Following our installation at the Spire for the Inte

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UK - Middlesex University in London boasts a strong performing arts department and was eager to upgrade both its Ravensfield Theatre and Dance Studio space. Whilst state-of-the-art equipment was a necessity, so was the need to be environmentally-friendly, with the university determined to be as green as possible and change their previous lighting equipment to LED only. As a result, they approached White Light to purchase the perfect set-up.

Bruce Allen is technical production manager at Middlesex University and oversaw the upgrade of both spaces. He comments, "As this was quite a significant investment, we needed to ensure that the equipment we purchased not only fulfilled our immediate aims but would also be sustainable for the long-term.

"The main priority of the upgrade was to ensure that all of the equipment purchased was as environmentally-friendly as possible. We are

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France Over 300 Robe BMFL fixtures were sold to the French market in the few months since the formation of Robe's new French subsidiary, Robe Lighting France SAS.

The BMFL was launched in autumn 2014, by which time French lighting professionals were ready to specify and keen to use the high-powered multi-purpose luminaire, and as soon as the new company was established, the business could 'hit-the-ground-running'.

"BMFL sales far exceeded our initial annual expectations and we steamed past those first targets in just six months," commented a delighted Bruno Garros, CEO of Robe Lighting France, who added that - given that the new company was formed just a few months after the launch of Robe's flagship moving light. "We didn't expect to catch up with some of the other European countries quite so fast."

The ball started rolling in May 2015 with a purchase of 46 x BMFL Spo

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USA - ETC has promoted Ned Keitt-Pride to the role of power controls product manager. In his new role, Keitt-Pride will work with ETC's power controls development team to bring new products to the industry, and he will be responsible for promoting those products and educating end users.

He is stepping into the position that Jake Dunnum held for nine years, following the announcement that Dunnum is ETC's new general manager of automated lighting.

"Ned brings a unique skillset and enthusiasm to our department," says vice president of marketing David Lincecum. "His extensive experience in the industry and his dedicated years of service with ETC will be a big asset to our product strategy. I'm confident that he will continue the progress that Jake and our power-controls team have made to transform our product line into an industry leader."

Keitt-Pride started at ETC in 200

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USA - For the past several years, Tour Supply has been building their Playback Control systems with long-time partner, William 'Viggy' Vignola. Most of today's major touring artists are running backing tracks. Often it's a small component to the show; other times it can be the mainstay of a live performance. Having a reliable and consistent way to play these tracks every night can be a significant issue for many productions.

Playback Control from Tour Supply is a fully redundant solution, operating on dual MacBook computers running Motu's Digital Performer backbone. The systems are methodically assembled, both in touring rigs with ATA style cases, and as "fly rigs" that live inside a Pelican case and meet the 70-pound max weight. Viggy Vignola is the architect of Playback Control and is now entrenched at Tour Supply on a full-time basis to expand this division.

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UK - Artistic Licence CEO and Art-Net inventor, Wayne Howell, has combined forces with lighting controls expert, Dr. Geoff Archenhold of Integrated System Technologies (IST) Ltd. to ensure Art-Net is ready for the advent of a new and potentially disruptive communications technology - Visible Light Communication, or VLC.

Coming soon to an LED near you, VLC provides a means of transmitting information by modulating the light at a frequency too high to be perceptible to the human eye. A simple conceptual analogy would be using a torch to flash a message in Morse code. Unlike a torch, however, VLC is exciting because of the high data rates that can be achieved and the fact that LED is a huge growth market. Other benefits relate to security and/or safety in environments where radio frequency transmissions are undesirable, such as hospitals.

Aiming for the highest possible data

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USA - The Observatory North Park in San Diego has quickly gained recognition for both the eclectic assortment of well-known and up-and-coming bands that it hosts as well as the quality of their sound reinforcement. The new Adamson S10 line array system was recently designed and installed by Sound Image, located in nearby Escondido, CA.

The Observatory North Park is located in a building that opened as a movie theatre in 1929 and has continued to be an entertainment venue since then. The current owners took over the 1200-capacity space in 2015.

"The previous owners had a similar idea with the room but failed," explains Garrett Wysocki, audio manager at The Observatory. "The sound system they had in here was seriously under powered. Customers and bands were constantly complaining. One of the first things we did was start checking out reputable systems that would provide the

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USA - Bubbas 33 is a chain of family-friendly sports restaurants known for made-from-scratch pizza and fresh-ground burgers. Its restaurants feature spaces designed for everything from after-work happy-hour to little-league victory celebrations.

The walls of Bubbas 33 restaurants are lined with "more TVs than tables" playing music videos, sports games and other video entertainment. Early Bubbas 33 locations used surface-mount loudspeakers between the TVs. To free up wall space for additional TVs, newer Bubbas 33 restaurants use ceiling loudspeakers.

The chain's first ceiling loudspeaker systems were 70-volt designs provided by No Static Pro Audio of Burbank, California. Although the owners were satisfied with these systems, they asked Eugene Gordon of No Static to "step it up a notch" for Bubbas 33's Colorado Springs location.

Gordon offered to retrofit the Colorado Sp

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Singapore - It has become tradition to celebrate New Year 's Eve at the Marina Bay in Singapore - in fact, each year it attracts 100,000 people to this festivity. For 11 years it has been Esplanade's job, together with the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Singapore, to organise and facilitate this massive event - last year alone it included eight minutes of firework displays and 20,000 "wishing spheres" along the river. Each sphere was signed by several people during previous months, with messages expressing wishes and hope to the upcoming year.

The organisers tasked local rental company Showtech Communications to provide a solution in integrating the existing lighting installations surrounding the bay with all the extra equipment for these celebrations. In total, Showtech used 48 Robe fixtures, 45 Clay Paky plus 300 Led fixtures to cover the whole area.

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UK - Allen & Heath's dLive digital mixing system was selected to manage FOH duties for the European premiere of Pokémon Symphonic Evolutions presented by Princeton Entertainment and U-Live, performed by the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra at the Eventim Apollo Hammersmith in London.

Having used a similar set up involving an iLive system for The Who's Classical Quadrophenia production, FOH engineer, Ian Barfoot, decided to try out the new dLive system.

"The brief was to create a big film score soundtrack feel to the production, so close micing of all the instruments was the order of the day. The channel count was never going to be small! Around 90 microphones were used," explains Barfoot. "The production also required the cleanest, most natural sound possible, so the choice of mixing console is paramount for me. For a long time, I have been a great

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USA - La Banda, the new contest to find singers for the next Latino boy band, just wrapped its first season on Univision wowing audiences with the talent of young competitors from across Latin America. Clay Paky Mythos and Sharpy lighting fixtures amped up the excitement of the live show.

La Banda was created by Simon Cowell and produced by Ricky Martin. Contestants hailed from South America, Central America, Mexico, Puerto Rico and the Caribbean. The two-hour, seven-week elimination competition featured guest performances by top Latino entertainers. The five winning contestants will form the new band called CNCO, which landed recording contracts with Cowell's Syco Music and Sony Music Latin.

"The show had many set changes between acts that usually had to be completed within a minute of video tape packages to introduce a performance that gaffer Don Winters wo

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Puerto Rico - Lighting designer Toni Fernandez-Medina enhanced the magic of by Mary Poppins recently in a theatrical production at San Juan's Centro de Bellas Artes Santurce calling on the versatility and gobo capabilities of the Rogue R2 Spot moving LED fixture from Chauvet Professional. Deploying 10 of the fixtures, which were supplied by Musique Xpress, she flew two units on the first electric pole, four in between the second and third electric, and four between the third and fourth electric.

Fernandez-Medina selected the Rogues for the Mary Poppins performance, which was produced by PBS Productions, after consulting with Musique Xpress. "I asked Mircord, one of the Musique Xpress technicians, if he could give me a demonstration of the different moving fixtures they have. After seeing their variety of fixtures, I decided the Rogues were the right ones for Mary

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