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UK - Netherlands-based Highlite International was founded in the 1990s and has since grown to be one of Europe's leading suppliers of show equipment and a worldwide distributor of light and sound equipment. What started as one container of show equipment has grown into a company that supplies products to over 70 countries and employs a workforce of over 150. Its brands are Showtec light, DAP audio, Infinity light, DMT LED-screens and Artecta architectural lighting.

Of particular interest on its stand this year are the Showtec LED Sunstrip Lamp GU10, Infinity Chimp 300 and Infinity iS-400 440W LED-spot with CMY.

More than 60,000 Showtec LED Sunstrip Lamp GU10 have been sold since the Sunstrip Active was launched - the equivalent of 600,000 halogen lamps.

"As LED technolog

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UK - Announcing an unprecedented line-up of new, cutting-edge, entertainment lighting innovations at the PLASA Show this year, Elation Professional can be found on Stand C40. The company's bumper line-up includes the new Fuze Series of dynamic LED wash lights, the ZCL Series of high-output LED effects, and the DTW Series of variable white LED lights.

Visitors can also find the new seven-colour Platinum Seven LED wash luminaire, plus the TVL CYC RGBW cyc wash fixture, the Sniper Pro (an upgrade of the PLASA Award-winning Sniper 2R with three times the power) and the Protron 3K Color, a high-power 40,000 lumen LED colour strobe.

Elation's line of creative high-res LED display panels, the EVHD Series, comes in three pixel pitches (2.8mm, 3.9mm and 5.9mm). EVHD modules are curveable, to meet a wider range of creative applications and feature a fanless design with complete fron

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UK - Hoffend LivePipe hoists - Engineering Product of the Year at the 2016 ABTT Trade Show - are on the Hall Stage PLASA stand N40.

The innovative approach taken to design and operation has led to a faultless installation in Tennessee, completed by BellaTEX Inc. & Ty Prewitt sent this independent report:

"I have nothing but good things to say about the LivePipe product. It offers significant and unique advantages - & showed us it will work in very difficult situations.

"LivePipe was not only the best solution in this case, but its cost was on par or lower than other options. I believe it's appeal will be broad. It can be exceptionally quick to install. Since it doesn't include hoisting a 150Kg motor, 'quick' actually has some validity.

"The assembly and installation process is significantly simpler than any other products I've encountered. The heaviest section was

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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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UK - d&b audiotechnik will be hard to miss at PLASA 2016, with plenty of opportunity for visitors to view the company's latest sound innovations, and to meet and chat with experts from the d&b GB team.

Newly appointed d&b sales partner SFL Group can be found on stand V60, where d&b's DS10 Audio network bridge will be shown, alongside other points of interest from the company's portfolio. Also exhibiting is d&b sales partner SSE/Wigwam, at stand J20, where visitors can find hands-on introductions to d&b's NoizCalc, the far field noise immission modelling software and the new QSC plug-in Q-SYS. NoizCalc is also up for a PLASA Award for Innovation (and don't forget you can see all this year's nominated product upstairs at the Innovation Gallery).

d&b GB is also playing key roles in a number of new PLASA Show attractions this year. For those thirsting for audio networking tech

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UK - Ayrton has built a deserved reputation as a maker of original, eye-catching and well-engineered lighting effects - and has introduced a multitude of new products in 2016, many of which can be seen for the first time in London at PLASA. You can see them on stand L30, where the French innovator can be found alongside UK distributor Ambersphere Solutions.

Drawing attention are MagicPanel-FX - an exciting new multi-function luminaire with 5 x 5 array of squared lenses on its front face producing a variety of 2D and 3D effects, which builds on the creative potential of its predecessors in the MagicPanel family - and MagicBurst, which is not only Ayrton's first strobe but the industry's first high-power graphic LED strobe, offering continuous rotation on both axes. Its 384 x 384mm squared face has 3,840 high-output white LEDs grouped into an 8 x 8 matrix - great for arrays. Wit

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UK - PLASA Gold Sponsor, Chauvet Professional, has chosen PLASA 2016 launch its new Ovation E-260WW IP ellipsoidal, which has taken the 750W HPL output of the Ovation E-260WW (which is currently the brightest LED ellipsoidal on the market) and has housed it in an IP65 rated housing.

The company is also featuring one of its most versatile fixtures, the Rogue R1 FX-B, which has five individually controllably heads, each with infinite rotation of both pan and tilt, and its new Maverick series which launched in April of this year. Maverick is Chauvet Professional's latest power-packed series of tour grade moving head fixtures featuring the MK2 Wash, MK2 Spot, and MK1 Hybrid.

"We are thrilled to be returning to PLASA as a Gold Sponsor this year," said Michael Brooksbank General Manager of Chauvet Europe. "The response to a number of our latest fixtures, including the Maverick s

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UK - Chroma-Q's Color Force II range makes its European debut at PLASA 2016 this week (Stand F20).

Nominated for the PLASA Awards for Innovation, and using the very latest fully homogenised optics, the Color Force II fixtures' output is a single, clean and pure beam of light, delivering a superior colour blend with no unsightly colour mixing shadows. The homogenised optics and improved Chroma-Q technology provide even higher quality saturates and pastels, and a purer white - all from a single source. In addition, the models deliver at least 50% more output than their predecessors.

Other features shared include exceptional colour consistency fixture-to-fixture and batch-to-batch, theatrical grade dimming, and ultra-quiet operation.

Also on display at PLASA are highlights from the Chroma-Q range of white LED solutions, including the recently launched, award-winning Space

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UK - The ProLights ArenaCOB4 IP65 LED blinder family were a key element of Paul Normandale's stunning design for Coldplay's recent Head Full of Dreams tour. These fixtures, along with many others, are featured on the ProLights stand at PLASA (Stand D30), presented by exclusive UK dealer A.C. Entertainment Technologies (AC-ET).

In addition to a selection of architectural and theatrical fixtures taken from the extensive ProLights range, other products at PLASA to note include:

The new StudioCOB PLUS - even brighter than the incredibly popular StudioCOB, but keeping the same core values, the new StudioCOB PLUS is also IP65 rated making it the ultimate workhorse LED Par.

The Luma1500 is the ideal replacement for a 1200W discharge moving profile. With a 6500K, 440W white LED source delivering a staggering 26,000 Lumens, a full CMY colour system, and a massive 5 to 50* Zoom

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UK - Adamson Systems Engineering is exhibiting at PLASA 2016, partnering with The Warehouse Sound Services Ltd. The booth features S10, S119, e-Racks, Point and Point Concentric speaker systems. They will be located on Booth T10.

James Oliver Adamson's director of marketing and sales, Jasper Ravesteijn European sales manager and Thomas Vestergaurd senior applications engineer will be joined at PLASA by Craig Buckley and Justin Frost who will represent The Warehouse North and South.

Adamson Systems Engineering has been on a high technology roll over the past few years. The jump kicked off with its flagship E-Series E15 large-format line array system, with its twin 15-inch neodymium woofers flanking the innovative E-Capsule section housing the mid/high components: two 7-inch Kevlar cone mid drivers and two 1.5-inch exit compression drivers mounted on a Co-Linear Drive Module

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UK - Throughout PLASA London, the WL Bar, situated on Stand G40, will showcase a visual spectacle unlike any other...

With the help of Christie projectors and d3 Technologies media servers, White Light will showcase the very latest interactive lighting and visual technology, all tracked by a BlackTrax real-time motion tracking system.

CAST technicians will be on hand to discuss the technology and demonstrate the capabilities of the BlackTrax technology. To date, BlackTrax has already been used in over 4,000 shows globally.

(Jim Evans)

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UK - In recent years, audio installations at Central Hall Westminster, Westminster Abbey and the QEII Conference Centre have seen Yamaha become a key presence in one of London's most important and influential areas. That role has seen a further significant boost in 2016, with a second - much larger and more complex - project at Central Hall.

Offering the largest conference and events space in central London, Central Hall Westminster (CHW) features a 2,400-capacity auditorium (the Great Hall) and a number of other rooms and spaces in the stunning Grade II-listed building, which together host over 700 corporate and (regularly televised) public events every year. It is also a vital resource for many important events which take place nearby. As well as hosting events and breakout sessions from the Palace of Westminster, CHW is regularly used as a media hub for major Parliamentary

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UK - To keep up with advances in modern theatre technology Sadlers Wells undertook a two year programme of refurbishment and upgrade starting in 2013. This work, completed in 2015, will allow them to continue presenting the world's greatest dance companies, commissions and productions to the public for many more years to come.

As part of the refurbishment Sadler's Wells updated and replaced significant aspects of the theatre's systems, working alongside a prestigious list of collaborators, including consultants from Carr and Angier, Stage Technologies, Stage Electrics, and GDS.

The team involved in this challenging project will join us at PLASA On the 20th September at 1:15pm in the Lighting and Staging theatre, to discuss the wide ranging improvements and the new technology installed.

Sadler's Wells also plans to open a new mid-scale venue in Queen Elizabeth Olympic P

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UK - In an exciting panel debate chaired by composer and sound designer, Donato Wharton, which includes award winning sound designer, Paul Arditti and stage lighting designer, James Farncombe, Investigating the Intangible will explore how sound and lighting designers work together to create the complex environments that theatre shows inhabit, how they communicate with one another and how they often compromise in the pursuit of a truly great performance.

Both Paul and James have a long and successful history collaboration spanning almost a decade at the Old Vic and beyond.

Join us in the PLASA Lighting and Staging theatre at 12:00 to see our panel in action in a panel jointly presented by the Association of Lighting Designers and the Association of Sound Designers.

(LSi Online)

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UK - Auditoria's Scott Willsallen has been one of the leading audio designers for major international and outdoor events since 2004. He has been involved in the majority of the Olympic Ceremonies since then. From Athens 2004 to Baku 2015, in Sound Design for Olympic Ceremonies - Lessons Learnt he will discuss the challenges of sound designs for these complex projects, from loudspeaker system design, control system redundancy, signal transport, RF systems, music replay and timecode. The session will also discuss the broadcast sound, and the many steps between source and destination.

"This is an interactive session where will talk about my design process and the lessons I've learnt over many years of major event sound design," says Scott. "I'll follow it with a discussion about if, and how, some of these techniques can be implemented into small-scale projects, so even if you're

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UK - Noisy Neighbours - managing perimeter sound is another panel chaired by LSi columnist and freelance journalist Phil Ward today at PLASA.

Panelists are Paul Timmins general manager of rental company Capital Sound, which has used Martin Audio's MLA system to great effect in some particularly sensitive situations including London's Hyde Park; Richard Vivian from Big Sky Acoustics, acoustic consultancy specialising in noise control for music and entertainment; and Roly Oliver, head of live business at Vanguardia Consulting.

The panel will look at the issues from all sides and see how the new expertise and fresh solutions that continually arrive on the market can help, or not, as the industry tackles the perennial problem of controlling ambient noise.

(LSi Online)

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UK - Developed by Soulsound, PLASA's first foray into the world of interactive visualisation has been an immersive experience for everyone who has gone along to the installation on the upper gallery at London Olympia. Headline sponsor NRG Lighting Community (Next Robe Generation) with participation from: Funktion-One, University of Derby, d&b, KLANG, preeVue, Limbic Productions and Barco; additional sponsors: ZEROdb Live, Genius Bros, J&C Joel, Sound Directions and tvONE.

The interactive zone features a maze of exciting and thought-provoking experiments in audio, lighting and visual wonders. Simple, entertaining and educational each experiment proves a concept, or demonstrates a principle to wow the user with a little bit of science.

There's virtual reality and prisms, experiments on perception and even a 'Brain Transfer Machine'!

The experiments end with 'Lens through

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UK - This year's prestigious Gottelier Award was won by Anne Valentino, Senior Controls Product Manager at ETC.

Named in memory of Tony Gottelier, the renowned industry innovator and commentator who passed away in 2006, the annual Gottelier Award aims to recognise those product developers who have made significant long-term contributions to the advancement of entertainment, presentation or installation technology - whether in audio, lighting, rigging, staging, or any other related field.

The competition was tough, with this year's nominees being Chris Cronin, founder of Total Solutions Group (TSG), Artistic Licence founder Wayne Howell, Dr Christian Heil founder of L-Acoustics, Masaaki 'Mick' Okabayashi, head of Yamaha's digital mixing console development team, Yvan Péard, co-founder of Ayrton, The Strand Lighting R&D team, 1960s-1980s, led by Marin Moore and later

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UK - The new ArKaos MediaMaster 5 with MediaHub makes its UK debut at PLASA Show, following its successful preview earlier this year. A software solution for control of realtime video and effects, MediaMaster has been developed for desk operators and lighting designers, turning any powerful computer into a fully-fledged professional media server, says ArKaos.

MediaMaster 5 introduces users to MediaHub, allowing users to: swiftly share content between servers or computers over a network; easily synchronise content libraries over a network; remotely monitor the status of any additional machines running MediaMaster; import new content remotely to the library of any server; organise libraries of content remotely from any computer; and safely synchronise newest content or the user's backup server just before a show.

MediaMaster 5 provides up to 36 layers in the MediaMaster Pro

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UK - For the first time, Momentum Circuits have introduced audio & lighting application circuit board manufacturing to the PLASA Show to reflect their expertise and experience gained within these sectors.

Managing director, Keith Wrigley told LSi: "LED lighting PCB applications represents over 70% of our business turnover and the experience we have with thermal management of high power LED devices and specialist materials is directly applicable to the PLASA audience and co-exhibitors."

Audio application circuit board d K6s also require the very highest quality, connectivity and aesthetic appearance to match the aspirational nature of high-end equipment, and Momentum have a growing number of pro-audio and control system customers including other PLASA exhibitors who encouraged Momentum to attend the show.

"The results so far have been hugely encouraging and we have alre

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UK - Celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, ETC is a world leader in professional lighting technology, and is once again displaying its latest innovations at the PLASA Show. On stand J40, visitors can find the new ColorSource Linear, a batten-style addition to the budget-friendly ColorSource range, in which a proportionate recipe of red, green, blue, with a twist of lime and an extra dash of red provide an extra richness of colour to its LED luminaires. With no difficult setup and round-the-clock support from ETC, it's ideal for any small or medium venue, say ETC.

Visitors can also see the rest of ETC's ColorSource family, including the ColorSource Spot and PAR luminaires; the ColorSource consoles, which provide hands-on control with the ability to run effects, mix LED colours, control moving lights and play back cues; the ColorSource Relay, which wirelessly switches powe

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UK - The Autograph Sales & Installations stand features many examples of the pro-audio technology that the company works with every day, including products from DiGiCo, Countryman, Meyer Sound, Clear-Com, including the HelixNet digital networked system and the award-winning Freespeak II wireless intercom, as well as the bespoke Autograph Signature range of problem-solvers.

A highlight of the stand is Meyer Sound's CAL 32 loudspeaker system, a self-powered steerable column array that offers higher power, more extended high-frequency beam-steering and beam splitting capabilities, and more uniform broad-bandwidth beam formation than any other column system. CAL offers a uniquely controllable solution to dozens of installed-sound applications and is particularly useful in challenging acoustic and aesthetic environments.

"We're extremely happy with the interest in CAL and all o

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