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Neumann showed its stage microphones, the KK104 and KK105s. The capsule head of the KMS vocal microphone, compatible with the Sennheiser SKM 5000 / 5200 wireless system, makes wireless Neumann sound possible on the stage.

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Martin Professional's Tungsten MAC TW1 was a a bit of a crowd puller but I was able to grab a few moments with Martin's Harry de Lon who walked me through the fixture due to ship in the summer. CMY colour mixing providesa full range, from delicate pastels to deep saturation. The standard lens gives a variable range of 20-40° with other options available. The company says that the MAC TW1 1200W fixture is the brightest in its class, and also that it is exceptionally quiet - a feat achievable through a new, (patent pending) silent cooling design which traps the heat and dissipates it away from the back of the fixture. The MAC 700 Wash was also on display (for more on this, see our Technical Focus review, pages 84-89), and other important launches include Maxxyz PC, a PC-based version of the popular Maxxyz console.

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Another Italian lighting manufacturer, DTS has been around for many years, but has only recently begun to make its mark in the moving light market. It had a strong presence at SIB, showed a number of new products including its powerful new XM 1200 Spot. Features include CMY colour-mixing plus a colour wheel (seven colours plus white), two gobo wheels with six gobos plus open on each, and an effects wheel with a rotating and indexable beam-shaper, three prisms and a frost. Using a Philips MSR 1200/SA discharge lamp, the luminaire boasts a 5,600°K colour temperature output, an intelligent cooling system, protection circuitry and power-saving mode. The rugged unit has an anodized aluminium body with ABS covering over the yoke and head, and comes with a two-year guarantee. Comprehensive technical support is offered online. DTS also conducted tours of its nearby offices and factory premis
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Court Acoustics presented its Vocal Management System, designed for both live and studio applications. The VMS provides the singer with all the sound processing they could require, in a 1U rack-mounting box. Designed by Stephen Court in a joint venture with Recording Studio Design Ltd, and described by him as "a complete voice control and enhancement system which doesn't require any technical set-up".

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Prior to a special presentation of HK Audio's swathe of new gear, African drummer Christian Bourdon warmed delegates up with a spot of mbala. HK then rolled out the new generation of the 8-year old LUCAS family of compact, active enclosures featuring several innovations - not least Digital Dynamics Optimisation (DDO) technology, an integrated, preset-configured digital controller. The new ConTour Array also features a higher-spec'd version, DDO-Pro.

"Contour follows on from Cohedra and Cohedra Compact," explained HK Audio's Marketing Manager Philipp Wrede. "But unlike Cohedra it's an active system, something the market demanded from us. It's very fast and easy to set up, with presets according to how many units you're using and whether you're flying or stacking - great for small-to-mid-range applications, say between 200 and 800 people. Cohedra remains the large-scale fl

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Nexo has finally sequelled its successful Geo S and Geo T tangent-array systems with the Geo D and Geo Sub, which as much as anything offer refinements implicit in previous models rather than breaking the mould: both Hyperbolic Wavesource and NX242 gain upgrades. Once again, the new generation "allows an unprecedented entry point" to line array technology, and it's the small-to-medium sized occasions that will get the benefit.

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XLNT Advanced Technologies made the first European showing of the expanded CyberHoist / InMotion 3D motion control system. Two new CyberHoist intelligent hoist motors join the original 500kg-capacity, 0-20m per minute CyberHoist 500. These are the CyberHoist 250 motor, capable of lifting 250kg at variable speeds of 0-40m per minute, and the new invertible CyberHoist 1000, with a 1-tonne lifting capacity at variable speeds of0-10m per minute. The matching InMotion3D control software is capable of operating all three types of motors singly or in one object.

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The usual A.C. Lighting welcome was extended, with the team excited about the Jands Vista S3. Designed to compete in the Frog 2 / Hog 1000 market, the Vista S3 is a compact piece of kit which provides full functionality of a Vista console, run in conjunction with a PC or Mac. Shipping in the next month. ColorWeb aplenty was also on show, offering a cost-effective modular solution. Each 1sq.m panel has 16 DMX LED colour cells, with panels clipping together.

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Martin Audio debuted the W8L 'Longbow', a product to stretch even tauter the muscles that fire the arrows of line array. "It's abouta 10dB extra HF improvement on the W8L," said Martin Audio design guru Jim Cousins, "so it's for situations where you need a very long throw - particularly in dry air conditions where you get a lot of air absorption. It also has a new LF driver with much better headroom, so generally speaking it has a wider bandwidth at much greater distance than similar-sized line arrays."

The W8LCD is a downfill addition to each of Martin Audio's line array series, with 120° horizontal dispersion, 20° vertical. "It means you can run the array straighter," added Cousins, "so you get more projection and it works more like a line array should. It completes the range. But, as with other Martin line array, you can use it separately i

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Arri was exhibiting the new ArriMax 18/12, "the most powerful HMI light on the planet". By the looks of this monster, it meant business. Combining the variable beam spread of a Fresnel and the light output of a Par, the ArriMax uses a unique reflector concept for beam control which eliminates the need for spread lenses. The unit takes a new 18kW or 12kW lamp

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Shure unveiled its new Digital Conferencing Processor, DCP 1248, which offers Diversity Echo Cancellation per channel for clean and consistent speech quality, regardless of environmental conditions. While one Echo Cancellation processor is active, the other processor simultaneously monitors the channel to compensate for changes in the environment.

The DCP 1248 Conferencing Processor includes 12 mic/line level inputs, each with logic inputs and outputs, four line level inputs, and eight line level outputs. Through Shure's CABus network, up to eight units can be linked, resulting in up to 96 x 64 auto-mixable microphone channels.

Also launching was a wired version of Shures's KSM9 wireless capsule. KSM9 is the first live vocal microphone with a dual-diaphragm design and switchable cardioid/supercardioid polar pattern, crafted to deliver vocal subtlety, flexibility and durability, say t

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Beyerdynamic's 'line array microphone'-based desktop conferencing solution, Revoluto, promised at ISE in Brussels at the start of the year (see L&SI February 2006) was still in the prototype stages and only partially operational. "September" was the new touted launch date.

Each station contains 14 capsules, but the unit is no larger than conventional gooseneck models. Revoluto is also a networked system, enabling up to 1,400 stations to operate from one control unit, distributed around multiple rooms or buildings and PC-configurable into precise scheduled sessions - all of which thinking has arisen from Beyerdynamic's acquisition of Interkom, the German conferencing technology manufacturer and, by sheer coincidence, neighbour of Sennheiser.

New products actually on the beyerdynamic stand included the Opus 89 dynamic microphone, and the expansion of the Tourgroup series of m

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Meyer Sound were showing M'elodie, its new high-power curvilinear array loudspeaker, and the latest addition to the MILO family of self-powered loudspeakers. M'elodie has a smaller footprint than the MICA, making it ideal for fixed installation in venues that might otherwise have seemed too small for a line array solution. Also announced was the news that the company's MAPP Online Pro acoustical prediction software is now available directly from the website, making it accessible to all.

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UK manufacturer Audient has been tinkering with its ONE loudspeaker control solution, contributing to the general trend towards cutting down set-up times and generally making it easier and more intuitive to navigate around PA systems - a bit like the way digital recording packages help you navigate around your session.

"We now have control software so you can run every parameter in the box from a PC, using a really slick user interface," explained Audient-LA Audio product specialist Ross McFarlane. "You can do that to control a single unit, already built into the box, or with an optional network card you can do it for up to 100 units. It looks and behaves much like a Pro Tools plug-in, so it's really easy to understand."

It also allows you to store and recall banks of programs, so with multiple units in comparable systems it's possible to transfer data from one en

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Following the reissue in 1993 of the Celestion Blue, Celestion now extends the range with the new 50W Celestion Gold, designed for players wanting the legendary 'Blue' tone with greater power handling capability. Celestion has developed a new range of bass guitar drivers encompassing 10", 12" and 15" Ceramic and Neodymium models in 'clean' (Orange Label) and 'rock' (Green Label) varieties. Green Label 10", 12" and 15" speakers feature heavier cones, multi-roll surrounds and longer voice coils

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Italian manufacturer 18 Sound had 11 new products on display, with a significant emphasis on neodymium transducers - the secret ingredient behind the push towards ever more lightweight enclosures across the industry. A new family of compression drivers begins with the ND1460A, featuring an aluminium dome and polyethylene suspension; titanium is available too, with a patented new coating treatment.

"These lines are available for distribution as 18 Sound," said the company's Giacomo Previ, "but the main focus of the company is OEMs - they give us the specifications and we deliver. We do see a trend towards high quality neodymium transducers with very high power at an acceptable price and low in weight, so to meet that demand we've developed a new magnet structure. Portability is more and more important, and you can save 7k-8k on an 18" with these drivers - 16k less fo

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USA - Color Kinetics Inc says that the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts has awarded the company costs and attorneys' fees in its successful patent litigation against Super Vision International Inc, pending documentation of the costs and fees, which Color Kinetics estimates to be approximately $1.4 million.

According to the Judge's ruling: "I conclude without hesitation that this case is 'exceptional,' and that Super Vision has perpetrated a 'gross injustice' by its egregious abuses of the discovery phase and vexatious litigation strategy. An award of attorneys' fees is appropriate to remedy the 'gross injustice' Color Kinetics has suffered at the hands of Super Vision's vexatious and bad faith litigation."

"We are very pleased with the Court's decision, as the order provides satisfying vindication for Super Vision's behavior over the past four

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Doughty and Prolyte were adjacent exhibitors that amalgamated into one luxurious stand complete with plush red velvet drapes and solid wooden bar. Doughty has a new version of their quick trigger clamp in the pipeline that can clamp 48mm - 75mm tube. Prolyte's show proved less than stress-free after exhibited copy-cat products on the show-floor sparked legal action. New products included the Prolyft load cell system, the Prolyft Mark II hoist, and the ST Roof system XL.

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Community Professional Loudspeakers showed the complete range of its iBOX large format systems, the first models of which were introduced at Frankfurt last year. Complementing iBOX was the new iLF218, a high-efficiency, dual 18" subwoofer, and the M-Class M12 stage monitor system. Community's R-Series and WET Series loudspeakers were also on display.

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RSS by Roland introduced the S-4000 Digital Snake series, which offers a world free of the inherent signal degradation, hums and buzzes of analogue cabling. Using Roland's proprietary Ethernet Audio Communication system (REAC), the S-4000 system is based on 100Base-TX, and transfers via Cat-5e cable. Up to 40 channels of 24bit/96kHz audio plus MIDI and remote control data can be transferred in one cable. The S-4000 system includes a 40-input modular rack (the S-4000S-3208) to accept both mic and line level inputs onstage, with XR-1 pre-amps provided for each input channel and 24bit/96kHz AD/DA conversion. The S-4000H front-of-house unit again offers 24bit/96kHz conversion and has 32 analogue outputs for the desk, and eight inputs. Optional extras include the S-420P external power supply unit and the S-4000-HUB, a dedicated REAC switching hub.

RSS also had two solid-state audio recordin

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Bosch extended its EVAC horn loudspeaker range with a new 50W, high-SPL model. The LBC 3484/00, is designed for use in public address and voice alarm applications that require a high level of sound pressure, such as industrial sites and sports grounds. A new TÜV-approved version of Praesideo PA, Bosch's digital public address and emergency sound system, was also launched.

Bosch also showcased its Wireless Discussion System, which employs advanced wireless technology and complements Bosch's Digital Congress Network (DCN) Next Generation system. It comprises two main elements - a Wireless Access Point (WAP) unit and three types of wireless Discussion Units.

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