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Germany - MA Lighting has announced the availability for download of its latest grandma software. grandMA v5.4 now features a full Blind Editor which works in parallel to the live programmer. When leaving blind mode, the original values of the programmer are restored automatically. Also, the last selection used in the blind programmer is restored on the time of re-entering. Each user in a multi-user network session has their own fully independent blind editor. Like the console, the grandMA 3D visualizer may also be used to preview and edit cues in blind mode. Cues can be easily changed on the console and previewed on grandMA in parallel, without affecting the live output on stage, say MA Lighting.

Functions such as Executor, Sequences, Cues, Macros, Presets etc may now be locked

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UK - Super Vision International, Inc. manufacturer of fiber optic and LED lighting announced today that it has signed three additional new licensees to its Variable Color Lighting System patent and its Laidman technology portfolio. The three licensees are Element Labs of Austin, Texas, TPR Enterprises of Mamaroneck, New York and Shine Lighting of West Jordan, Utah.

Nils Thorjussen, founder and president of Element Labs: "I'd like to personally thank Brett Kingstone and Supervision for taking the lead on this critically important matter and making the Belliveau patent and Laidman technology easily available to the industry. We feel that Super Vision's IP portfolio is foundational to the LED lighting industry and this licensee agreement is not only a good investment for Element Labs, but for the future of our industry." Mr. Thorjussen was a previous co-founder of Flying

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Italy - The MTV Europe Music Awards took place this year on the 18th November at the Tor di Valle in Rome. Derrick Ziebe was sound designer for the show with all live equipment being supplied by Britannia Row Productions, including all of the Sennheiser radio, mics and IEM, the choice of the large majority of artists.

Sennheiser radio and IEM was used throughout with Sennheiser SKM500N specifically used for all of the presenters and the winners. Bryan Grant for Brit Row commented, "49 channels of Sennheiser radio were used in an unfriendly RF area but the system performed flawlessly."

The majority of artists also chose Sennheiser mics including Usher and Alicia Keys (evolution 500 series wireless), The Hives (evolution wired, main vocal e 935), Franz Ferdinand (evolution wired, main vocal e840), Eminem (SKM5000), the Beastie Boys (SKM5000), Anastacia (evolution 500 s

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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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USA - Chauvet has introduced two compact, wide-flood wash lights, Colorbank8 and Colorbank12, each outfitted with 8 and 12 gel holders, respectively. Both fixtures contain 16 preset beat-activated chase patterns. The speed of each chase can be adjusted with a rotary knob. A full on override button allows users to turn all the lamps on for static wash.

Colorbank 8 and 12 come with a standard set of 8 or 12 colored gels that can be easily replaced with different gels of the colors of your choice. Additionally, Colorbank8 features barn doors to give the user more control over the direction of the light. The two wash striplights very effectively wash walls and backdrops as well as smaller dancer floors and stages. Both are lightweight enough for mobile use. A practical but optional CB-FS Colorbank Footswitch controller is sold separately.

(Sarah Rushton-Read)

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UK - Adlib Audio and sister company Adlite are supplying full sound and lighting production to the current UK Embrace tour. Audio includes a Nexo Alpha system and one of Adlib's new Yamaha PM5D digital consoles and lighting includes Martin MAC 550 and High End Studio Beam PC moving lights and a WholeHog II desk.

With a huge variety of venues on the itinerary, the typical stack of Nexo is eight M3 mid-highs eight B1 bass boxes and six SB2 subs, which the larger venues expanding to eight mid-highs and bass cabinets a side with a total of eight subs. The system is powered with two types of Camco amps - Tectons for the mid-highs and Vortex for the subs. The PA is zoned via BSS 366s, which are used for time alignment when they're running infills, outfills or delays in some of the more idiosyncratic rooms.

Jones mixes with a Midas H3000 FOH. For system processing, he's using 10 dbx

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UK - Leading entertainment lighting supplier White Light recently joined forces with Ashcroft Services and Zero 88 to update the facilities at the Shoestring Theatre, home of the Croydon Youth Theatre Organisation (CYTO) which provides nine to fifteen year olds a chance to experience all aspects of theatre. "The CYTO's Shoestring Theatre is a converted part of an old school run by Croydon Youth Services," explains Ian Locke, manager of Ashcroft Services and technical manager at Croydon's Fairfield Halls. "CYTO have very little money - but they urgently needed to upgrade their lighting installation. They turned to Ashcroft Services for help; working with White Light and Zero 88 we were able to considerably improve their facilities."

The upgrade saw CYTO replace three six-way Pulsar dimmer racks with what Ian describes as a "very fine ex-demonstration Chi

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USA - Rigging Seminars has announced that it will conduct three classes in 2005. These will be held in Las Vegas from 8-11 February, 2-5 May, and in Chicago from 3-6 June. Each class covers the principles and operation of both stage rigging and arena-style rigging, and will include a full day of hands-on training.

Rigging Seminars is the longest established entertainment rigging training program, and is highly respected in the industry. They are taught by Harry Donovan and Jay O. Glerum, both working professionals with more than 40 years' experience in show business. Both have written respected books on entertainment industry rigging and thousands of riggers have graduated from their courses, ay the company.

Glerum has been a stagehand, scenery and lighting designer, technical theatre instructor at several universities, and systems designer for a major theatre equipment compa

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UK - This year the ever-popular Barco Showcase event was held at two locations, in the North and South of the country. The first was at Three Mills Studios in London and the second held at the Magna Science Museum in Rotherham, Yorkshire. LSI visited the Three Mills Studios, which proved to be an ideal location for showing the huge range of Barco products.

The show included everything from their high performance display products and solutions for simulation training, to their large screen LED display and state-of-the-art projectors. One of Barco's newest products being shown was the Encore Presentation System which is a multi-layer Video Display System (comprised of a Video Processor unit and a System Controller), that combines seamless switching with a variety of flexible video effects, to provide a versatile video production tool for live event staging applications.

The huge

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UK - Le Mark announced the launch of a new product to assist all areas of the entertainment industry effected by the changes to existing electrical wiring core colours. Please see Amendment No 2 to BS 7671 : 2001 or follow the iee website link below.

These colours are a sometimes referred to as "harmonised" colours and will bring the UK closely in line with practice in mainland Europe. Following visitor request received during the 2004 PLASA show and since. The need to produce a simple to use and visually effective method of marking both electrical cable 'tails' and when required Cam-Lok/Power Lock type connectors was requested. With three-phase, a caution notice is also required at the distribution board.

To assist with this,Le Mark has developed a version of its established Identi-Tak cable length marking system.The new version Identi-Tail, combines the existing vi

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UK - A.C. Lighting has been appointed authorized dealer for Clay Paky products in the UK. Clay Paky manufactures a wide range of effects fixtures, including moving body luminaires, moving mirror luminaires, colour changers, followspots and smoke machines. The company's latest innovation is the Alpha range, a series of 575W moving body projectors designed for professional, architectural and show business environments. This range includes the Alpha Spot and Alpha Spot HPE moving yoke profile fixtures and the Alpha Wash moving yoke washlight fixture.

Key range features include high brightness optics providing even distribution of light from the centre to the peripheral for a flatter curve; wide zooms (4 - 80 degrees on the Alpha Wash and 10 - 40 degrees on the Alpha Spot); colour mixing well away from the beam focal point, resulting in an even colour spread and no projection of shu

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UK - Away from the theatre and into the public domain, Stage Technologies Ltd has provided wine waiters with the power of flight. A new 6.5 tonne glass wine tower, which holds over four thousand bottles of wine, has been designed and installed by Edwin Shirley Staging for the Radisson SAS hotel at Stansted airport.

To order wine at this venue is to initiate a live aerial performance, where 'wine angels' fly up the face of the 13m tall tower and descend with your desired bottle. To achieve this Stage Technologies has supplied four BigTow winches that are controlled by radio linked operator pendants. These handheld, wireless pendants enable the wine angels to control their own movements up and down the tower. Their two-point hip harnesses allow them to turn upside-down and swing from side to side whilst performing choreographed routines. Stage Technologies' BigTow winches, origina

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UK - Vision Systems recently revealed plans to extend early warning solutions by offering its Millbank voice alarm solution to new and existing VESDA smoke detection and ADPRO video security customers.

Gordon MacSween, managing director at Vision Systems, comments: "We are already market leaders in detecting threats with our VESDA range of very early warning smoke detectors and our ADPRO range of video security systems. Our next step will be to further integrate the Millbank voice response products to complement our offering by adding a response capability. This may be the automatic announcement of a staged evacuation in the event of a fire or preventing damage or loss by telling an intruder that they have been detected, police called and for them to leave the premises."

Neil Voce, sales and business development director for voice response systems at Vision Systems,

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The Netherlands - Alcons Audio has introduced the new RBN1801 pro-ribbon driver - a new mid/high frequency transducer designed for high output and high fidelity sound reproduction applications. Based on the principles of Isophasic planar driver technology, the RBN1801 features an effective radiation length of 18" (46cm), offering power handling of 3kW (for 200ms, which is 10 times the industry standard, say Alcons Audio) and a high efficiency of 108dB with 1W @ 1m. With a 90° wave-guide, this efficiency rises to 110dB, say Alcons, with a frequency operating range of 1kHz - 20kHz (+/-3dB) and a maximum SPL of 145dB.

As a result of the symmetric 'push/pull' design, not only is the 1801 completely magnetically shielded, it also functions as a dipole cylindrical radiator. The mid/high frequency transducer features Alcons Audio's patented 'Real-90' dispersion, a unique develop

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UK - Autograph Sales, continuing its longstanding relationship with some of the UK's leading sound rental outfits: Canegreen, Richard Nowell Sound Services (RNSS) and Sound by Design have in recent months been reinforcing their Meyer Sound loudspeaker stocks with the latest products.

Richard Nowell Sound Services is responsible for sound and communications throughout the South Bank Centre, while supplying additional systems to the various artists and events who play London's riverside venues. A Meyer Sound user for more than 20 years, RNSS added 700HPs, the ultra high-power sub woofer, to its inventory.

Meanwhile North London's Canegreen, continues to expand its extensive Meyer Sound stocks, also with the 700HPs. The first in the UK to purchase the product, Canegreen is really putting its new sub woofers to use, after several dates with The Corrs, they are now travelling the c

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Europe - Audio-Technica Ltd (UK and Europe Division) has announced the promotion to its Board of Directors of Tony Cooper as UK sales director and Adrian Rooke, as European finance director. The company reports that this expansion of the Board of Directors comes towards the end of a year that has seen considerable growth of the company's structure. Other appointments to the Board of Directors of Audio-Technica UK Ltd include Toshiyuki Hatakenaka and Shigeru Uzawa, representing two manufacturing divisions of the Corporation in Japan.

On 1 April 2004, Audio-Technica UK assumed responsibility for all European distribution and completed a refurbishment and expansion of its Leeds-based office and warehouse facilities in June. To support this major expansion of European operations, new appointments during this year began in April, with that of Richard Garrido as European marketing and

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USA> - Crown's Xs Series amplifiers are proving a solid, cost-effective choice for powering installed sound systems in houses of worship, the company reports. Jeff Gefke of Calvary Audio Ministry recently chose the Xs Series for Calvary Chapel churches in Visalia, California and Rio Grand, Texas, while another installation using Xs Series amps by Calvary Audio Ministry is currently underway in Oceanside, California.

The power range and versatility of the Xs Series makes it easy to match amplifier power to the requirements of the various loudspeakers used in an installation. For example, in Visalia, a single four-channel Xs 4300 and two Xs 700 amps power the JBL AE Series LCR system, with channels to spare for stage and side-fill monitors, and Xs 700 amps power the subs. Commenting on the performance of the system, Gefke said, "During the Grand Opening with over 1000 people

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UK - London-based production company John Henry's Ltd (JHL) has updated its already substantial monitor system inventory with a major purchase of 40 QSC PowerLight PL236 amplifiers. QSC's distributor, Shure Distribution UK, filled the initial order and provided the product in newly commissioned monitor racks. JHL's special projects manager Pepin Clout said: "All our front-of-house amplifiers are QSC, so it made perfect sense to maintain that continuity. That said, we conducted an extensive market evaluation of all available product, which effectively confirmed our decision that QSC amplifiers continue to be our best investment, based on sonic transparency and performance, power-to-weight ratio, and reliability."

JHL is active not only in live television broadcasts, but are well-established in the concert touring, corporate, and showcase arenas, which places rigorous

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UK - This Christmas Elumin8 was asked by the fashion house Alexander McQueen to design its Christmas windows for the London, New York and Milan stores. The brief was to create something that was high tech and used the innovative elumin8 lamps while at the same time creating an atmosphere that was romantic. Another requirement was that the display was easily transportable and simple to install. Each hanging tree banner is very thin, light and semi transparent and are simply rolled for transportation.

The panels designed by Ginco and the McQueen team are based on a hand drawn Christmas tree, but with a very cotemporary feel and have been programmed to slowly fade and increase luminosity, giving a slightly misty effect to the forest. Richard Kirk, managing director of Elumin8 said: "The Christmas trees really show the creative potential of the elumin8 product, they have transc

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UK - Hippotizer version 2, previewed at this year's PLASA Show, begins shipping this week. With new features including a control area on a separate screen from the main output screen, allowing images to be adjusted locally in a user-friendly, intuitive environment. In addition there is layer-level preview, up to sixteen image layers (depending on model) each with separate adjustment of all key parameters including brightness, contrast, colour, position and zoom. There is controllable interaction between layers; a master layer with 16-bit geometry applied globally to all other layers and an expanded range of supported media file formats, including Quicktime, Mpeg1 and Mpeg2 and AVIs. Hippotizer will also play back audio within video files.

Hippotizer's existing features, including its beat-detection engine and user-configurable real-time effects are further improved in version 2.

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Hong Kong - Hong Kong based Sound Projects agent Shalom AV recently supplied the sound equipment for a worship concert at the Queen Elizabeth Stadium for 2500 people. The 'Stream of Praise concert is performed by a famous Christian worship team that tours around Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Taiwan and the USA. Equipment used for the event comprised: Six SP-4 Diamond (Sound Projects' hybrid line array system) each side flown as line array, four SP-4-15 subwoofer, two SP-4 Diamond as front fill, two SP-2 as centre front fill and two SP-2 as side fills.

Shalom AV Technology successfully served the annual event for the seventh time this year and has already been asked to quote for several other projects because of the outstanding success of the event.

(Sarah Rushton-Read)

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