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GE Lighting had several additions to its Showbiz line of bulbs. The Showbiz CSR800/SE/HR lamp is designed for film production settings, the result of a close collaboration with Mole-Richardson. A series of four CSR metal-halide lamps, the CSR400/S/DE, CSR575/S/DE, CSR700/S/DE, and CSR/1200/S/DE are designed for use in moving lights. The 80W F80BX/Cinera Plus 32 and 36W F36BX/Cinema Plays 32 are designed for indoor film shoots using 3,200° Kelvin tungsten lamps. The CHM150/PAR56 lamp is designed for architectural and retail applications.

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Exhibiting on its own doorstep, and two days after a lavish 25th anniversary party at the HQ in Berkeley, Meyer Sound announced that it had finally developed a proprietary digital loudspeaker management system. Called Galileo 616, the product represents the company's first foray into DSP, and comes after a typically cautious watching brief on the true potential of the technology.

"We weren't going to approach it until we could do it with 115dB of dynamic range," said director of European technical support, Luke Jenks. "It's not just a management system; it's also a line driver. So if you put it across your system, it has to perform at low output levels without noise, and at high output levels without clipping. That's where you really need the dynamic range. We have a huge stake in what happens after the DSP stage, so we only embarked on this once we were satisfied that t

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UK - Adlib Audio has serviced a plethora of its North American client base throughout 2004, after concluding the European section of David Bowie's "Reality" tour in 2003, including Jill Scott, N*E*R*D and The Calling.

US soul and blues diva Jill Scott (not to be confused with Gill Scott Heron) used a JBL VerTec PA system supplied by Adlib Audio for her UK tour. Gigs included two nights at Brixton Academy, Bristol Birmingham, Barrowlands in Glasgow and a grand finale at Manchester. Adlib supplied 20 JBL VT4888s and their own DF418 subs; the system was driven by ADLIB's new Camco Vortex 6 amplifiers. FOH engineer Chaz Clifton used a Soundcraft Series 5 desk, with BSS FDS-366 OmniDrive Compacts for system control and BSS FDS 360s for EQ. This offered the flexibility to zone the system as required. Monitors featured one of ADLIB's new Yamaha PM5D consoles. The console's

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A new version of the A-Net protocol behind the company's A-16 (right) Personal Monitor Mixing System, promising increased data capacity and signal control in this and future live performance audio networks.

"Because A-Net was originally conceived for live stage monitor applications, the protocol was designed to transmit in only one direction: from the A-Net input module or distributor hub out to the performers' mixers," said Carl Bader, president and CEO of Aviom.

"A-Net Pro is fully bi-directional and has dramatically increased capacity, while preserving the central performance specs of A-Net: uncompressed, low-latency in a plug-and-play system. The new version of the protocol carries up to 64 audio channels on a single wire pair in a Cat 5 cable, still at 24 bits. In specialized networks, A-Net Pro can carry 256 channels without sacrificing performance."

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The SpekTrix Wave cabinet has been added to the company's SpekTrix line array system, complete with Adamson's proprietorial wave shaping sound chamber. The product won a PAR Excellence award presented by Pro Audio Review. Shauna Kennedy marketing manager commented: "The PAR Excellence award recognizes promising new audio products that show a combination of innovative uses of technology and performance value for the professional user, we were honoured to receive it."

The 15° trapezoidal cabinet allows for extreme downward angles at the bottom of an array for front row coverage, as well as wide vertical coverage arrays such as multiple-balcony venues.

It's a 3-way cabinet with two Adamson 8.5" Kevlar, neodymium drivers - one ND8-L mid-bass driver and one ND8-M mid-range driver - and a 1.5" compression driver mounted on the wave shaping chamber. This produces a slig

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Lee Filters' sales director Ralph Young gave a warm welcome, and reported that the show was going very well and that there had been a great deal of interest in the new designer colours released by Lee earlier this year. The stand also featured an amazing piece of dichroic glass sculpture, which we'd rather like for the office.

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New from Robert Juliat is the Espion 2, a hand-held, battery-powered DMX analyzer with features including a DMX cable tester, DMX input receiving, DMX output sending (memories/macros), level catpure (memory recording), DMX input analyzer and reformer, moving light test facilities (library), and USB connector. Linked to a computer through the USB interace, Espion allows you to check all parameters plus DMX stream, in real time, on your computer screen.

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Osram introduced its new Ostar compact high-powered LED offering more than 120 lumens output and measuring 3cm x 1cm. Ostar's RGB lightsource consists of one red, one blue and two green thin-film chips, a ceramic carrier for interconnection andthermal management, and supporting electronics for over-voltage and over-heating protection. Also shown was the QXL 750.77 Quick eXchange lamp, which offers1500 hour lamp life, utilizes eXtreme Seal Technology and is designed for use in theatres, studios and architectural applications. The SharXS 200 HTI, a double-ended metal halide lamp, also uses eXtreme Seal technology, delivers exceptional brightness, and can withstand increased thermal stress. The new Osram SFc10-4 is a pre-focused socket that can be wired for either end and is designed to work with all of the lamps in the SharXS series. The Osram Planon flat lamp technology was also displaye

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Apollo Design showed the new Smart Color line of colour changers. The three models feature quiet operation, a dual speed single fan, variable scroll speed, and a self-tensioning gel string. Apollo premiered three new gel colours - Putting Green, Margarita Green and Green Diffusion, as well as 90 new gobo patterns, 45 of which are glass.

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Nat Hecht, Principal and CEO of Transmission Line Marketing, established his company 18 months ago for "pro audio and video distribution throughout the Americas", and clearly has an eye for innovative European technology. As well as, on this occasion, helping to introduce TiMax to an AES audience, Hecht hosted Alcons Audio's debut appearance at a US trade show - along with its signature ribbon-based loudspeaker technology.Alcons MD Tom Back had this to say: "Contrary to the popular belief that ribbon technology is very fragile, has low impedance and poor power handling, after selling hundreds of products over nearly two years we haven't had a single one returned. We don't even have a price for a replacement diaphragm."

Back went on to reveal that the LR16 compact line array, designed for small to medium applications and receiving its US launch at the show, has been

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Lycian showed the prototype of their 3k-xenon short-throw spotlight that features three dichroic slots, a left/right top/bottom chopping shutter and side mounted gobo slots. For long-throw applications, the 1294 SuperArc 4k features a nichrome/steel iris/zoom lens system and achieves 5,000 foot-candles at 100 feet.

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PRG, having merged with VLPS, got to show the latter company's Virtuoso EX1 media server, with features that include real-time rendering, keystone correction, three interactive 3-D objects, two separate background layers, positional camera, ambient and directional light source, crossfading of all elements, colour-mixing, object mapping of textures, videos or still images, the ability to interact with cues, and high-resolution (16-bit) control of most parameters. The product uses the first 218 channels of a DMX-512 universe.

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Making its LDI debut was Lamina Ceramics, maker of LED sources of unusually high brightness. The company has earned a lot of media attention, including a story in The New York Times, and a very favorable quote from lighting designer Jules Fisher. The company's ultra-high lumen RGB light engine is, they say, 10 times brighter than any previously demonstrated and generates light in any of more than 16,000,000 colours, including white.

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JBL Professional announced a new suite of system design and operation tools for use with VerTec line array systems. All-new DSP presets, expanded array DLLs for use in EASE 4.0 acoustic modelling software, and an upgraded version of JBL's Line Array Calculator are included in the package.The SRX700 series maintains the established SR and SRX series loudspeakers' claims to offer most advanced driver technology available in a portable PA. System weight has been reduced even further, even while the enclosures are made from hard-wearing birch.

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UK - When the Wales Millennium Centre (WMC) opened on 26 November it became one of Europe's most vibrant arts developments to date. After 30 months of construction, the £104.2m venue will be home to seven leading Welsh cultural organizations, staging musicals, opera, ballet and dance day and night.

The 33,000sq.m building occupies a key site in Cardiff Bay's 'Inner Harbour'. Daylight floods the building, as 15cm thick glass open the foyers to views both outward and inward, and at night the lights of the foyer will be seen from afar. The striking building inscription is a poem composed by leading Welsh poet and writer Gwyneth Lewis and reads, 'Creating truth like glass from inspiration's furnace, in these stones horizons sing.'

ETC has been involved with WMC almost from the beginning of the project, having delivered a truckload of equipment as far back as the summer of 2003

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Along with the newly-revised DMX Coffee Pot, Mark II, Doug Fleenor Design was also showing the Remote Addressing Device (RAD). The RAD gives users status information on their fixtures, and can be used to set DMX addresses. The LED300 Power Supply features six 4-pin XLR outputs to power up to six Color Kinetics Color Blast 12-style fixtures. The LED300 Power Supply also features numerous built-in effects, and can be used without a console.

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USA - Intelix, the US manufacturer of audio and video equipment, will relocate all operations as of January 15, 2005. The new facility will be located at: 2222 Pleasant View Road, Suite #1, Middleton, WI 53562. All other contact information such as telephone, web and email details will remain the same.

"For some time now, Intelix has been searching for a larger, more suitable facility to accommodate our rapidly increasing staff and inventory needs," stated Steve Cohan, Intelix CEO: "The pleasant view location allows us to meet both goals, as well as remain in the general area."

(Sarah Rushton-Read)

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City Theatrical had a variety of products on hand, including their WDS OEM Wireless DMX receiver, which can be built into any DMX device to provide wireless connectivity. The PDS-750 CB Touring Power Supply is for use with Color Kinetics fixtures, and features seven types of user configurable fade and chase routines. The WDS-equipped AutoYoke can convert a standard ETC Source Four unit into a spotlight; there are a variety of accessories also available.

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Martin Professional had, as usual, plenty of products to show. The Maxedia digital media composer is the company's entry in the imaging sweepstakes. The units's integrated DMX control provides full control of both lighting and video elements. Also on the control side, the Maxxyz Playback Wing made its US debut. Among the company's new networking products, the Ether2DMX allows users to increase the number of Maxxyz DMX universes and/or easily place DMX universes remotely on any TCP/IP Ethernet network, while the Ethernet Switch expands the networking and operable distance parameters of the Maxxyz console. In addition, Martin's ShowDesigner previsualization program now comes in Gold and Silver versions: the former is the full program while the latter is a streamlined edition. A number of club units were on show, including the Wizard Extreme and Ego X4 effects units and the SCX500 scanner.

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UK - Harman Pro UK recently collaborated with Sound Division to provide a host of Harman products for the new sound system in the exclusive Zeta Bar at the Hilton Park Lane Hotel. Sound Division was approached by manager John Darling when the Zeta Bar replaced its old audio system as part of a refurb. A keen JBL user, Sound Division's David Graham states that this was his "obvious" choice for speakers, and also specified BSS control, Crown amplification and an AKG radio mic system to complete the installation.

Graham worked in close consultation with Harman Pro UK's Andy Duffield on the project, and the pair pooled their knowledge of sound design for high profile nightspots to produce the best and most appropriate audio for the Zeta Bar. The positive sonic results have been immediately noticed and commented on by clients, visitors and staff, the company reports.

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Columbus McKinnon, on whose stand we found Adrian Forbes-Black chained up and loving it, has introduced a new line of Hoist Controllers. The CM ProCommander Control Systems - which can control up to 96 motors singly or simultaneously, are available in four models, all approved to the German standard of BGV C1 for overhead rigging. The CM ProCommander is available as a basic manual control unit or a fully computerized variable speed system with built-in load monitoring. CM also introduced the ShowPro line of electric hoists, ranging in capacity from half-ton (454kg) to two-ton (1814kg); with lifting speeds up to 16ft per minute (4.1m/min at 50Hz). Finally, the CM Hurricane ES, designed for inverted and regular use in the entertainment industry, is a rugged unit designed with fewer parts, assuring longer life and minimal maintenance and available in capacities half-ton (500kg), one-ton and
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