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Le Maitre's Versa Fan is a flexible mounting DMX addressable fan that is dimmer based and features a ratchet based positive locking system. The company was also showing its EZ Kleen product for foggers, which increases the life of the machines, as well as the lightweight, portable, hand-held Quick Shot Confetti launcher, which will launch confetti up to 50ft.

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Italy - In the first significant expansion since the purchase of Orbit, Star Events Group announced the immediate opening for business of Star Orbit Italia. Working from offices in central Milan and with a brand new warehouse situated near Milan Linate airport, this will be a full service operation.

Stocks of the unique Star Orbit stages are already in Milan, along with trained crews, transport and associated services such as front of stage barriers. The modular nature of the Star Orbit range enables the company to temporarily increase stock levels in Italy, from the UK, for large projects.

The Milan office will also be offering other Star Events Group products to the Southern and Eastern European markets. The first confirmed contracts for the new venture are to supply 15m Orbit stages for the pre Christmas and New Year's Eve concerts being organized by the City of Milan outsi

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Italian manufacturer LDR was on the stand of its US distributor, Strong Entertainment Lighting. New from LDR is the Canto 250HR followspot - based on the new ceramic lamp from Philips. The ST250HR lamp offers all the benefits of ceramic technology for applications that until now have been the preserve of halogen lamps, say Philips. Features include a well-defined beam, a large side-handle to control movement and a double microswitch interlock for safe bulb replacement - while the fan-free cooling system makes it ideal for environments requiring a bit of hush. The Canto range now offers a choice of six lamps in the same housing.
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Robe Show Lighting showed a vastly expanded product line, beginning with the DigitalSpot 2600DT. Robe goes digital with this moving head units, whose features include two digital gobo layers with a selection of up to 255 videos and images per layer. Also shown were the ColorWash 575AT and Color Wash 120E AT moving-head wash units, the ColorMix 575AT and ColorMix 550AT static colour-changing fixtures, and a line of club units: the ClubSpot 250CT, the ClubWash 250CT, the ClubScan 250CT and 150CT and the Fusion and Funky effects projectors. The company also showed the Fog 1500FT fogger, the Faze 1000FT fazer, and the Haze 400FT haze machine.

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Sennheiser USA introduced the Evolution e900 Series (left) of wired stage mics to the US. The e900 Series includes two professional vocal mics, the e935 and the e945, plus a wide range of new backline instrument mics.

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The new PX-0288 (above) audio matrix mixer allows local audio sources to be routed in any combination to eight zones, using either local or remote control. Built specifically for multi-zone systems like those found in hotels, airports, casinos, hospitals, conference centres and restaurants, the PX-0288 comes with a pair of dedicated remote controls and a remote microphone station.

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British manufacturer of the Aztec live console Audient announced a deal for its products to be distributed in the US by Audio Exchange International (AXI), based in Rockland, MA. Audient directors Gareth Davies, David Dearden and Luke Baldry were all at the show.

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Pathway premiered the new RDM Repeater, an opto-splitter that features one input and eight outputs. The output ports are individually configurable for RDM enabled or disabled, and DMX speed, and are available with connectors on the front or rear. Also new, the new Vivetro Translucence Fader is a DMX-controllable unit for use with Electronic Privacy Glass. The Vivetro fades single or multiple panes of up to 32sq.ft, is rack-mountable and features smooth, 16-bit fade resolution.

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US-based Superior Line Source Loudspeakers, one of the few manufacturers worldwide using ribbon drivers, unveiled the PLS8695 and its 24-bit, 96kHz DSP processing engine developed using algorithms optimized for the original LS8695. Two high-power digital amplifiers have been incorporated to handle the low and high frequency drivers separately, while a robust, high-voltage, high current power supply also features.

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Philips showed the MSR Gold, a double-ended lamp with 'Golden' lamp caps, designed for stage use. The gold-plated caps allow higher cap temperatures (up to 400° C), reducing lamp and lamp-holder damage. The Golden lamp also features the patented Philips P3 pinch protection, allowing pinch temperatures of up to 500°C. The MSA SA/DE Gold is already available in 400W and 1,200W, and 700W will be out soon.

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UK - Marquee Audio, in conjunction with Sound Directions, has carried out a sound system installation in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern in support of conceptual visual artist, Bruce Nauman's mesmerizing Raw Materials exhibition.

For his fifth Unilever commission, the American artist has deployed a wide range of spoken texts in a way that orchestrates and measures the space of the Hall. Contracted to provide the audio, Sound Directions was tasked with taking 21 diverse audio tracks and samples from previous works, and playing out via a series of 28 directional electrostatic speaker elements, running 100V line, and distributed the length of the Turbine Hall.

Marquee Audio, meanwhile, has supplied all the additional hardware and designed an elaborate cabling infrastructure in which the complex routing protocols have been carefully created in BSS Soundweb architecture.

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Showing a similar trend, Renkus-Heinz introduced the SCA-16 'Steerable Column Array' with its 16 x 4" drivers mounted in vertical line array fashion. It has 16 channels of DSP and 16 x 50W of Class D amplification. "These elements are finally able to combine to focus sound in highly reverberant spaces, like a cathedral, for example," said CEO Ralph Heinz. Also new are the TRX-42 Stair Step, DRS18-2 Sub, PN-PNX151M/9 (below, left) and PM121M/12S monitor loudspeakers.

In the same demo suite, the developers of EASE electro-acoustic room simulator software showed EASERA, a measurement platform that also incorporates Time Domain Spectrometry tools. In other words, where EASE allows you to simulate what happens, EASERA allows you to measure the results - so as well as being useful to live sound engineers and installation contractors, it's a scientific platform for acousticians

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Strand Lighting introduced the new OneLight Par and oneLight Fresnel. Both are 575W MSR daylight luminaires, with integrated ballasts, for quick set-up applications. Also new was the 2.8.5 console software for Strand 300 and 500 series desks. Key features include extended luminaire attributes to support Catalyst units and a new TrackBack command, among other things. Strand also released new software for its wireless PDA-based remotes. On the architectural side, the new Accent DMX control sations are designed for use with all Strand digital dimmers. Each station can support up to 48 dimmers with two, four, or eight presets. Stations can be linked together to form systemswith up to eight stations in eight rooms. Finally, Strand showed its SST sinewave dimmer module, which provide true silent lamp operation and less than 1% harmonic distortion.

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UK-based Infinium, formed in March 2002, took its contact-free digital faders to the AES. Having presented the technology at trade shows around the world, the company now believes that optical, digital controls have come of age - and has opened dialogues with DJ and studio mixer manufacturers. Will live console makers catch on?

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OptiLED showed its Designer Dimmable Series, offering lighting intensity control in a unit with outer dimensions identical to an ordinary halogen MR16. The Dimmable offers full performance at 12V DC or AC and dimming capability from 10V down to a 3V candle glow. The series offers a new snap-on ring mounting for the diffusers and can be used in most indoor and weather-protected outdoor fixtures and applications, including theatres and cinemas, amusement parks, architectural features, landscape accents, retail, museums and hospitality, say the company. OptiLED has supplied its lighting fixtures to a number of recent US installations and projects, including the International Spy Museum in Washington DC, Club Nero at Caesar's in Lake Tahoe, the New Hampshire Capital Centre for the Arts and the Houston Ballet.

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Tomcat had the One line of trussing for exhibit and retail applications, which makes use of a new aluminium connector that provides ease of construction and exceptional support. New from Brilliant Stages is Dekex, an extra-light line of risers and stage decking which is billed as being exceptionally quick and easy to use. At 40kg for an 8ft x 4ft module, it is designed for schools, colleges, and exhibitions, among other applications.

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Wybron reports good business across the board - in particular with its popular Nexera dichroic colour changing fixtures (profile and wash versions, both now available with a CDM source), which are currently taking the College market by storm in America. Feedback from users has been very positive, the company says, in that increasing numbers of college venues are taking Nexera fixtures for evaluation - and not sending them back! Other news from Wybron is the company's appointment as the US distributor for Lighting Innovations' Super Beam 1200. This fixture, says Lighting Innovations, boasts near 100% light efficiency due to the parabolic and spheric double reflector optics and the use of Phillips' 80V, 1200W tungsten Halogen bulb.

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UK - As part of an enlarged company commitment to in-depth customer education, Meyer Sound will blanket the UK in January with a series of free, one-day seminars in five different cities. Following three consecutive sessions in London commencing on 10 January, the company's seminar tour continues on to the north of England, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.

"The seminar program works to provide support to our UK dealer network and customers," says Roger Harpum, Meyer Sound's UK sales manager. "These sessions introduce audio professionals, at no charge, to fundamental aspects of modern sound systems, in the process making clear the benefits of Meyer Sound technologies."

The day-long introductory course, entitled System Design Principles, provides a broad overview of principles involved in the design and measurement of complex sound reinforcement systems. Par

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At the Rose Brand stand, the ShowLED Star Drop has gone full colour, using RGB LED technology for additive mixing that allows for thousands of colours. The drop uses wide-angle, high-output LEDs, which are individually addressable (with the ability to assign up to 16 virtual channels). A lightweight DMX-compatible controller can be run in stand-alone fashion, connected to a light board, or via a PC control system. Also, Rose Brand is now the US stocking distributor for UK-based Triple E track systems. Triple E's Unitrack features large-capacity scenery carriers, eliminating the need to build custom carriers. In addition, the company's Chaintrack system allows curtains to turn up to 180° in as little as a 6" radius.

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ShowCAD's Mick Martin demo'd the latest developments for the company's Artist lighting and show control package - now fully WYSIWYG-enabled. Capable of controlling over 32,000 DMX channels as well as offering full multimedia and timecode support, Artist is a powerful and flexible system. The latest tricks in the pipeline include an impressive matrix facility which allows the simple creation of all kinds of effects and chases in banks of full-colour lighting fixtures - highly effective on any scale.

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Look Solutions was exhibiting at LDI for the first time under its own name and not through a distributor. Nathan Kahn, sales for the newly-opened Look Solutions USA, reported that he had so far had a very positive response from show visitors and that many of them were surprised to know that at least 50% of the Broadway shows today use Look's foggers and hazers.
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