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Duran Audio were previewing an extension to its successful Intellivox system at PLASA. The updated versions now incorporate HF drivers, improving the steerable array's frequency response up to 18kHz.

In the last year, Duran Audio has enjoyed several high-profile installations with one of the latest being in London's King's Cross and the Berlin Hauptbahnhof in Germany, where AXYS Intellivox and AXYS IntelliDisc-DS90 were installed respectively. The latter was the first installation for the IntelliDisc product, the world's first fully integrated, digitally controlled, two-dimensional loudspeaker array. Joining the team on the stand was new marketing man, Ian Bowler, who is charged with overseeing the AXYS brand.

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The latest thing at the TMB stand was Toplight, an integrated, hanging lighting system from FinnLight, run by noted US television lighting director Bruce Finn. Toplight provides high-output illumination from six PAR 64 lamps, with configurable diffusions for a variety of soft light looks.

TMB also showed products that build on existing product lines. The company's DecoPAR range of pinspots and floods now includes PAR 16 and PAR 20 versions. Also, the ColourPix range of large-scale LED video displays now features new high-resolution modules comprised of interlocking panels that are custom-configured for pixel-pitch and size. The ProPower HPS 24- and 48-way Hot Patch Systems allow the use of rackmount dimmers with flexible output options. Also, the ProPower RPD Rack Panel Distribution systems can be custom-configured for each customer or application. The ProTester DMX tool checks

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USA - After spending eighteen years in the world of finance, Langston Holland finally fulfilled his lifelong passion for sound, and his dream of a professional audio career, when he founded Soundscapes almost three years ago. Located in Pace, Florida, just outside of Pensacola, the popular regional sound production company services the church market across the Southeastern United States. "About 95-percent of our work is done withchurches, Christian concerts and Christian youth outreach events," Holland explained.

Holland heard about a new company called Danley Sound Labs, founded by audio pioneer Tom Danley. "I read about Danley Sound Labs in the ProSoundWeb forums," he said. "I had always been interested in Tom Danley's ideas. Reputable people in the industry were writing positive things about the products, so I checked them out."

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Italy's Goboservice announced the appointment of Projection Advertising as its exclusive UK distributor in July 2006. Goboservice is a totally bespoke service and does not offer standard gobos.

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Seltron has been busy this year developing new faders specifically with Stanton and Pioneer in mind. The new Pro X-Fade cross fader is the latest development in the range, smaller than previous models but just as robust. In addition, Seltron's new line fader is being supplied to manufacturers including Soundcraft. These products add to the company's growing range of faders, connectors, switches and encoders.

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Goboland's Vicky Fairall, who began heading the Belgian company's London branch last year, said the company was having a "brilliant" show. "I just can't tell you how good it's been," she said, "It seems that every visitor to the stand is a new customer." As usual, the company was also offering some traditional Belgian hospitality, in the form of very strong beer, and very nice chocolates.

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PLASA Show launches from Griven included the LED Dazzler and Shaper products. The Dazzler is a powerful 6-way unit offering six clusters of 18 LEDs complete with independent pan and tilt operation for each cluster - ideal for studio and live applications. The Shaper is a linear RGB colour changer also offering six clusters and independent pan and tilt control. It uses 24 DMC channels when full pan/tilt control are required over each cluster, and four when all clusters are operated as one.

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Traxon UK displayed its new professional LED lighting range, including the successful 64PXL DMX series, available in Matrix, Wash and Mirror formats. Also on display were Traxon's new wall washers, spotlights and accent lighting.

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Edirol introduced its V-440HD video mixer, which the company says creates new standards in the market. It's an 8-input console that combines 4 inputs of standard definition video with 4 inputs that can be either high definition video (1080i or 720p) or RGB at any resolution from VGA (640x480) to SXGA (1280x1024) - and then output all of these at the resolution that the user chooses. With other features including keyers and picture-in-picture on SD and HD, plus the ability to split output over multiple units, the V-440HD is a single-box solution that "answers every event manager's needs at a price that nobody thought possible" the company says.

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Italian moving light manufacturer SGM (represented in the UK by Lightfactor Sales) launched the Pilot 3000 lighting console - an expediently-sized but powerful control surface with many features you'd expect to find on larger lighting desks. They also had the new 2.5 release of their own media server - the Imago Mediasynth (badged by Brash Technologies and recently featured on the Eros Ramazzotti tour). Also new was the latest in the Palco range of LED fixtures, the Palco 5, utilising the new K2 LEDs.

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Shure Distribution's extensive stand was evidence enough that this company provides more than just microphones: "We are a one-stop shop for our customers," said new marketing manager Uzo Onuora. With new products from Radial Engineering, a new distribution deal for Shure (including a range of DI boxes and mic splitters), Shure's very own Performance Gear radio microphone systems, Sound Devices' range of recording devices including the 702 and 722 two-channel units to name just few, visitors were treated to a feast of shiny electronics! The Sound Devices units were proving popular: the 702 records only onto removable Compact Flash cards, while the 722 is also able to record directly to its internal 40GB hard drive or Compact Flash.

"We have had a lot of really good quality customers come and see us on stand," enthused Onuora.

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A dizzying array of new products was on display from Sennheiser, not least TourGuide 2020-D, a digital, six-channel, rechargeable headset system that automatically turns on when the head band is opened by the wearer. A personal volume control is built into the body of the headband - which hangs below the chin and is easily viewed - so too the channel selection. Weight is just 65g.

The A5000-CP is a circular polarised helical antenna that provides a more robust solution to difficult or cluttered stage environments. The A5000 is linear across the entire wideband range 450-960MHz; its unique propagation characteristics mean greatly reduced dropouts.

Also new, Sennheiser's SDC 8200 is a fully RoHS-compliant conference and interpretation system.

A smaller, smarter body pack transmitter, the SK 5212 runs on just one AA cell (six hours), is more frequency agile, and possesses a two

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Once again, Yamaha have done the Japanese thing and made an already good product even smaller and more affordable with the addition of a new digital desk, the LS9, aimed squarely at the small format analogue mixer market. In two variants, 16 or 32 channels, the LS9 uses many of the usual recall features from the highly successful M7CL launched at PLASA last year.

An ever-strengthening range of amplifiers sees the addition of the TN amplifiers, a range from 1900W to 2500W output (stereo at 2 ohms) and using Yamaha's high-efficiency, patented 'EEEngine'.

By licensing the Ethernet-based standard (announced worldwide from the PLASA show) Yamaha has made EtherSound networking technology part of its inherent strength, making the integration of Yamaha digital consoles into audio networks even easier. Plus, three new EtherSound-enabled DME Satellite models were added to the recently-launched

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German loudspeaker manufacturer K.M.E. presented the CBA700D self-powered sub and the QL1215 down-fill unit at PLASA this year. The CBA700D contains a 15" direct radiating driver and Class D 500W amplifier, and is designed for use with K.M.E.'s CSA range. The QL1215, on the other hand, complements the company's PANO line array by giving 120° horizontal dispersion from two 8" and two 1" compression drivers.

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Xenon spotlight manufacturer the San Ei Electric Co from Japan had their XPS Series prominent on the stand. These are very highly engineered, fabricated from sheet steel and cast aluminium and finished in light and dark textured brown. The Xenon lightsources have a reverse polarity setting and magnetic controls to ensure flicker-free operation, and the current ripple is no more than 10% on full or standby.

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A powered line shaft winch (known as the RSSEM) from Dutch manufacturer Roden Staal is such an obvious idea, it's amazing no-one has thought of it sooner. With the growing pressure of Health and Safety legislation forcing many theatres to contemplate the cost of replacing their counterweight flying systems with motorised bars, the RSSEM offers a logical and more economical alternative. Based upon the premise that most shows require maybe 10 to 12 fly-bars, why not mount self-contained motorised fly-bars on beam trolleys that enable them to be flexibly repositioned up or down stage by tracking along a wall-mounted 'I' beam each side of stage?

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LMC Audio wins the prize for 'worst fake shivering mummy' on a stand at this year's show - although the ghoul did make an amusing background to the Monday evening's Awards ceremony. However, even a shaking rubber mummy is more scary than a new digital mixer (which was, of course, the company's point) so anyone making it past the vibrating monster could marvel at the latest offerings from Soundcraft in the shape of the Vi6 and M7CL digital console from Yamaha.

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An exciting extension to the well-known facilities of the TiMax system from Outboard, Track the Actors (TTA) is a WiFi-based tracking system using the 2.45GHz band - available in most countries - developed by some enterprising audiophiles in Norway. Tiny digital transmitters with a 6-hour (rechargeable) battery on board are placed on up 64 actors and used to provide location information to TiMax so amplified vocalisation can literally follow the actor using the TiMax audio imaging manipulation. The clever bit is the 16 spiral antennas packed into a 10cm square plate that sits up in the flies and provides the triangulation needed to make this work.A worthy PLASA Award winner.

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Breaking with convention, Lycian was actually highlighting an older product rather than their latest and newest! The Superstar 2.5 - a 2500W HMI spotlight has been in production for some years, and has always done well. However, the company has now decided that it's the most "European looking" of the range, and therefore are boosting the marketing campaign in this territory. It's also one of the brightest spotlights in its class. Lycian also brought three other spotlights to the show - from their range of over 25 models.

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LiteStructures premiered Digitruss, a cable-free, modular truss system that incorporates live power circuits and data tails within a single structure. The data rail can carry both DMX and the architectural protocol DALI, so both conventional and intelligent lighting can be directly attached to the truss without the need for extension cables.

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Stage Accompany had several new products for PLASA. The Fractal (F24, F48 or F88) is a speaker management system with two-in four-out, four-in eight-out and eight-in eight-out respectively. The Fractal is designed for use with any loudspeaker system and is controlled via PC-based software, which can also be used to selectively secure any parameter - ensuring wandering fingers don't mess up all your hard work.
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