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>LightProcessor showed its Zip desks as well as new models in its Dimension range of installation dimmers, available as D610 (6 x 10A) wall-mount, truss-mount or portable versions, plus the D1210 (12 x 10A) and D1810 (18 x 10A) commercial versions. LightProcessor's other popular products include the Paradime digital dimmer - a six-channel dimming module and the DMX-tools range - of DMX signal processing products, including the DMuX, store, Merge and Buffer - the latter available in both truss and 19" rack-mounting version.

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>The PIGI S700 (4kW) HMI projector was launched by E//T//C Audiovisuel, the well-known large format image projection and multi-channel video projection specialist. The S700 is part of the new generation of PIGI projectors and is a compact unit equipped with internal dimmer, dichroic colour mixing and correction filters. The company's project portfolio is impressive: recent work includes this year's Cannes Film Festival, and the very dramatic illumination of Buckingham Palace during the Queen's Golden Jubilee weekend last year which must have been seen worldwide. Managing director John Ross Ashton, enjoying a busy PLASA Show, said the PIGI slide projectors are starting to be used in theatrical applications and can currently be seen on Anything Goes in the West End.

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>Stepping into Abstract AVR's marquee, where colour exploded from the floors and walls, was an impressive assault on the senses. From the new Ledion range, the modular LED dance floor was attracting attention. The new VRX Powerled 1.8m bar creates fascinating light patterns using high powered, super-bright LED technology.
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>A company new to the PLASA Show, but with origins deep in the roots of pro audio, KV2 Audio showed two new PA systems - the ES and the EX ranges. The EX10 is a two-way active speaker comprising a 1.75" compression driver onto an 80° x 100° horn with a 10" for bass. Capable of working full range down to 65Hz, the EX10 can be augmented with the EX2.2, a self-powered 2 x 12" sub that can also drive a pair of EX10s.

KV2's ES system comprises the ES 1.0 a three-way high pack loaded with 1.75" with a tighter 90° by 40° horn, a 6" horn-loaded mid-driver with identical pattern, and 12" mid/bass driver. Three subs are available - ES1.5, ES1.8 and the ES2.5 being loaded single 15", single 18" and twin 15" respectively, and designed for different application demands. KV2 also designs and builds all its own amps and processing, the EPAK 2500 provid

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UK - Two of the UK's most respected supply companies have announced a merger which will create a major new event structural and rigging company in the UK.

Star Hire (Event Services) Ltd and Star Rigging & Technical Services Ltd have joined forces to create Star Events Group Limited. The new company will offer clients a wide range of services, including equipment hire, installation and consultancy, within the field of music, broadcast and corporate, sporting and public events. The principals of the new company are Mark Armstrong, Roger Barrett, Phil Broad and Maddy Sheals - all of whom will be shareholder/directors with Pete Rayel as an additional shareholder.

The Group will have five divisions - Star Mobile (mobile, trailer-based stages); Star VerTech (stages and temporary structures); Star Design (creative design & visualization, structural analysis); Star Ice (temporary ice

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USA - Loud Technologies Inc (formerly Mackie Designs Inc) has announced plans to position RCF as the worldwide commercial sound brand within the Loud Technologies family. With this announcement, the company will begin transitioning current Mackie Industrial branded products to the RCF brand, beginning with the DX8/DX810 digital mixer and the SP400C ceiling monitor.

The company announced at the PLASA Show on Monday its plan to change its name from Mackie Design to Loud Technologies in order to eliminate the confusion between 'Mackie' the company, and 'Mackie' the brand - as well as clarify the positioning for each individual brand under the now Loud Technologies umbrella.

"We have a fantastic network of dealers, distributors, system designers and contractors in place that have been very supportive of the Mackie Industrial brand and we are fully committed to this team,"

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>Further developments to the Matrix sine wave dimming system, were shown on the I.E.S. stand. Client requests have led to I.E.S. increasing its range of products and specifications of the system. A double processor unit per cabinet is now a standard option and with Ethernet data connections for dimmers proving popular, I.E.S. launched interfaces equipped for ANC (Advanced Network Control) and RDM (Remote Device Management). Recent installations for the company include 1,600 channels at Het Muziektheater, home of Amsterdam Opera.

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>The Stadium Hazer from Le Maitre is a new concept in the cost-effective manufacture and delivery of vast volumes of non-toxic haze, without the problems of oily deposits. The patented delivery system is designed for easy maintenance and is programmed to self-clean on start-up and shut-down. The delivery arm can be angled through 120° and has a variable speed booster fan to project the haze to where it's required. Le Maitre's Rick Wilson said the pyrotechnics demonstrations, run on the Top Deck, were well attended - as always!

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>Addressing the mid/low-end speaker market, Acustica Beyma introduced a whole new range of 10"-18" drivers, the main improvements being more power handling from use of flat-wire voice coils and stronger basket design. Beyma also presented four new compression drivers in 2" and 1.5" versions, utilizing titanium domes and neodymium magnets.

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>Lots of new products from High End Systems. Highest in profile was the Catalyst DL1 digital lighting engine, winning the PLASA Award in the AV category. The DL1 sees the boundaries between lighting and digital video blur, with moving images deliverable via the moving head fixture and V3 of the Catalyst software. Also on stand was ColorCommand, a fixed incandescent washlight with CMY colour mixing, while ColorMerge is designed as an alternative to gel scrollers for ETC Source Four luminaires and uses CMY dichroic glass mixing. For the club market, Trackspot 2 is a moving mirror fixture with 12-position colour and effects wheels. On the control front, version 1.3 of Flying Pig Systems' Wholehog III software was on show, as was Wholehog PC. Designed to give users the facilities of a Wholehog II console within a Windows-compatible PC, the Wholehog PC software is free. Complementary hardware

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>In addition to the audio lines mentioned earlier, MilTec also distributes Italian lighting manufacturer Fal which has has taken the logical step and achieved IP65 for its Ground Colour and Mini-Painter architectural fixtures.

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>A new architectural dimming system, Anylight from Anytronics comprises an interface card housed in standard wall-mount dimmer packs, that uses standard DMX to communicate with up to 50 outstations (Anytronics provides a range of five outstation panels with varying degrees of presets, single toggles and simple up/down buttons). Outstations can be connected star or daisy chain-style, getting power and comms from the interface card via a two-wire connection in parallel. Simple to set up, the Anytronics system provides a relatively sophisticated level of control without resort to a PC and programming.

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>Star of the ETC stand, and the first product launch of the PLASA Show (the press conference took place before the doors had even opened), was the Source Four Revolution, the new moving head version of the renowned profile. Using the same optics as the Source Four Zoom, but with increased light output, Revolution has been designed to operate extremely quietly for the theatre market. The base unit offers 570º pan, 270º tilt, beam-edge change, zoom, internal media frame and on-board dimming. An in-built colour scroller is provided, plus a new lamp base which features a quick-exchange incandescent light source. Two bays are provided for optional modules which give additional functions, including an 18-leaf iris, colour wheel, rotating gobo and shutter modules.

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>From the Sennheiser stand came two new audio systems from D.A.S. Audio. Inevitably, the CA28 and CA215 combo is a line array. Highly compact, the system is based on DAS's own 2 x 8" drivers with a DAS1.5" compression driver on a 6° by 90° SERPIS plane wave generator for the highs. The accompanying2 x 15" Sub integrates onto the D.A.S. flying hardware. Delivery from a four-box coupled system, 80Hz-20kHz is claimed at 143dB peak SPL, while the sub delivers 147dB down to 37Hz. The new D.A.S. Dynamic Series is a three-way system comprising DS-115/Sub-18F passive, or add an 'A' suffix for the active models. Stand-alone or pole mounted, these are light, easy to use and would suit small installs or touring applications.

Also on the same stand was a new digital EQ unit from Rane, the DEQ60 and 60L ('L' denoting long-scale faders). Designed for live tours, this regular looking

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>Formed as a result of a buy-out of the Penn lighting and trussing business from Penn Fabrication, Metalworx is the European manufacturer of the original Penn trussing. The company featured coloured Par cans on the stand in addition to triangular, box and circular truss. The company also offers a complete custom manufacturing service.

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>Jack Exell, general mnager of Cerebrum Lighting was well pleased with the show, adding that the stand had been kept busy by high quality visitors. For the first time Cerebrum was showing the full Xenonspot range of Xenon followspots, in collaboration with Japanese manufacturer San-ei Electric Co. The range is available in 1, 2, 3, and 4kW models.

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>Audio-Technica was giving a European launch to the AEW4000 and 5000 Artist Elite wireless microphone systems and T1000 body pack transmitter; AE5400 and 3300 condenser mics; AE4100 and 6100 dynamic mics and a prototype DA860 wireless distribution amplifier. Also new was a number of microphones in the Engineered Sound series.

A-T was also showing the latest from Sabine, which it distributes in the UK. Centre stage was Sabine's SWM7000 Series 2.4GHz true mobility wireless microphone systems, incorporating the patent-pending 'Smart Spectrum' technology which allows up to 70 simultaneous wireless systems to operate with maximum fidelity. The receivers have built-in Targeted Input Processing, including the FBX feedback exterminator, a compressor/limiter, an adaptive de-esser and parametric filters. New on-board DSP allows the selection of a number of dynamic or condenser mic elements. Up

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>Prototypes of Chameleon Audio's Atlas digital amplifiers heralded a potential series of 14 models! Ranging from a 700W mono unit for bass drivers to a five-channel 2 x 700 and 3 x 350W model for 5.1 surround sound, it's not certain whether all 14 will make it into production. However, the potential for Atlas seems very big, with a 1U stereo version for the MI market also being considered.

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>Barry Abrams, the product development manager for lighting effects company Chauvet, commented that the company always aims to find a little niche and create something innovative to fill it. This year it was showing the first samples of the new LED Colortube, a cutting-edge, eco-friendly tube equipped with 144 high intensity LEDs. The system is intended to go into production in January 2004.

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>There were five main products from concert lighting's best-known desk manufacturer, Avolites. Diamond 4 Elite features 96+14 playbacks and eight DMX universes in a remarkably small format console that still gives easy hands-on access, not least clear short-cuts in configuration, which is arguably easier than a touch-screen type operation. The D4 Vision has even more playbacks (156) and a greater number of hands-on channel controls, making it more suited to large dimmer shows. Both desks have Visualizer on-board.

Link Avolites' Simulator desktop to the new E2DMX and you have a virtual desk panel on-screen with outputs to eight universes of DMX. Add D4 Pilot (it acts as a USB hub) and you have a simple hands-on operating panel for Simulator with recognizable controls from a D4 desk and eight motorized faders. Also on stand were the company's new ART3000 dimmers - based on the familiar A

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>A contemporary-looking ice bucket, pre-programmed to change colour, was one of the latest, stylish offerings from Special EFX. The company is the exclusive UK importer of Mood-Light, a range of LED lighting panels and objects. New products in the range include the frame-less, flat fronted Tile, which enables multi-panel displays without seams and the Reflector panel, which acts as a mirror when not illuminated. The panels can be utilized in installations for walls, ceiling and floors.
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