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Germany - Major has introduced its new dedicated website (www.major-lighting.com)

to make finding all details of products and custom-made solutions quick and accessible. For example, the product section has a concise overview of all major product segments (Dimmers, Luminaires, Rigging + Safety Ropes, Power Distribution, Cables + Connectors and Colours + Effects), or in the Navigation header visitors can discover more about the company and its renowned service.

Major puts a main focus on clarity and accessibility. By clicking on the website's multiple links, visitors can drill deeper into a subject and get additional information.

Major is Lightpower's own brand. Major products are built in Germany and have earned themselves a great reputation on multiple international projects

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UK - With the programme for Theatres Trust Conference 14: Community Theatres in place, and a strong line-up of contributors confirmed, including Stephen Williams MP, Peter Stark OBE, Chairman of Voluntary Arts Network, and Sir Peter Bazalgette, Chairman of Arts Council England, momentum is building as delegates take advantage of the generous Early Bird delegate rates.

This year the annual conference is taking place on Monday 28 April 2014 in Leeds, at the famous Grade II* listed City Varieties Music Hall. Early Bird delegate rate runs to Friday 28 March. The community theatres conference is co-locating alongside PLASA Focus: Leeds, the popular regional entertainment technology trade show that runs the following day at the Royal Armouries on Tuesday 29 and Wednesday 30 April.

Mhora Samuel, Director of The Theatres Trust sa

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Germany - Elation Professional enjoyed an "outstanding" Prolight+Sound show in Frankfurt with a bustling stand that was on the go from start to finish thanks to a broad line-up of attractive products that included a few surprise world premiere preview products, as well as an exhilarating light show that attracted throngs with every showing.

A range of new products for professional stage applications included the unveiling of four all-new luminaires in Elation's popular Platinum and Satura range of professional moving heads - two discharge lamp-based and two LED-based - the Platinum BX, Platinum SBX, Platinum Profile LED, and Satura Spot CMY Pro.

Both the Platinum BX and Platinum SBX are compact fixtures that combine new lamp technology from a Philips MSD Platinum 17 RA 350W lamp with a new optical system to kick out 20,000 lumens of power. The Platinum BX is a beam l

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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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Germany - TUI Cruises, Europe's leading travel group, began its operations in spring 2009 with the liner Mein Schiff. The second cruiser liner was commissioned in May 2011 and is named Mein Schiff 2.

Further growth is now signalled by the subsequent expansion of the fleet with two new vessels. Mein Schiff 3 will be launched in May 2014, with sister ship Mein Schiff 4 following one year later.

For the cruiser liner MS2 the evacuation system design was carried out by the engineering company Michael Creydt in co-operation with the acoustical design company, Carsten Fromm and installed Lellman.

To assure a high quality speech transmission, the operator decided to install salt-waterproof digital steerable loudspeakers. After testing several different systems the final decision was made for the Pan Beam series of Pan Acoustics, the Pan Beam PB04-SW.

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USA - Wireless audio manufacturer RF Venue has released the RF Optix RF to fibre optic conversion system, a powerful new tool for mainstream wireless microphone users that expands the possibilities of antenna distribution and wireless audio design.

"RF Optix brings technology from the world of broadcast and IT into the reach of church, school, and theatre wireless users," says CEO Chris Regan. "Integrators, tour managers, and church technicians are now able to do things with fibre that would have been way out of budget, or downright impossible, with coaxial cable."

The RF Optix system leverages the low cost, lossless characteristics of fibre optic cable over the expensive, fragile, lossy characteristics of coaxial cables. Fibre cable runs thousands of feet long are possible with negligible in-line attenuation, so antennas can be remoted in venues far away f

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USA - The Arena PAR Zoom from Elation Professional is an RGBW PAR wash light with motorized zoom that is powerful enough to be used on large stage applications of all types. Featuring a bright and well-defined beam, the Arena PAR Zoom houses 19 x 10W RGBW LEDs for a broad selection of saturated color options including a genuine white.

The Arena PAR Zoom is extremely energy-efficient for such a powerful luminaire. Although the fixture consumes only 220 watts of total power, lumen output from this high-power LED PAR can is comparable to a 1000W fixture.

An efficient 10 - 60° zoom is capable of angling wide or extremely tight for accurate beam angle control and greater design possibilities. The Arena PAR Zoom is capable of smooth dimming from 0-100% with excellent stability throughout the range and also includes a selection of dimming curves.

Other features include strobe a

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Switzerland - At the Berner Rathaus (Bern Town Hall) in Switzerland, voice intelligibility has been greatly improved with the installation of two steerable Meyer Sound CAL 64 column array loudspeakers. The system is implemented in the Grossratssaal, the acoustically challenging main legislative chamber of the 15th century Gothic structure. Project design was handled by Daniel Zurwerra of Suhr, Switzerland-based Virtually Audio.

"Voice reinforcement in this space is challenging for several reasons," recounts Zurwerra. "First, the reverberation time is more than two seconds, and even higher at some frequencies. We have high background noise levels, and because of aesthetics and historic preservation requirements, loudspeaker placement and positioning is highly restricted. It was clear that beam-steering columns would offer the best results.

"The sound quality

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USA - Backstage Apps has announced the release of its first app in an upcoming series of apps for entertainment professionals. SMBox is a "sleek and sophisticated iOS application" that allows stage managers to create a completely customizable show-timing experience.

SMBox is a feature-rich application that allows users to manage their show timing experience as best suits their show or project. With support for multiple projects, SMBox provides users with the ability to configure timestamps for show start/end times as well as an unlimited number of timers that can each count up, count down or both (to compare elapsed time to target time) and can individually be included/excluded from the total show time. After each recording session, the user's times can be emailed in an editable format.

"The lack of apps for entertainment professionals has been truly disappointi

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The Netherlands - Vivitek has introduced three, high brightness, multimedia digital projectors, which are designed for large meeting rooms and other corporate applications. Each projector in the D96x Series delivers high level of image quality, combined with a range of features designed to meet any integration or presentation challenge.

Delivering brightness up to 5500 ANSI lumens (D967), 4800 ANSI Lumens for the D968U and 4200 ANSI Lumens for the D966HD, the models are available in XGA (D967), 1080p (D966HD) and WUXGA (D968U) resolutions. All projectors display an outstanding picture with a 10,000:1 contrast ratio.

"The D96x Series is a great addition to our existing range of projectors for corporate applications," says Holger Graeff, general manager EMEA at Vivitek. "All the models in the range deliver a sharp, bright image whatever the ambient light. This mak

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UK - Focusrite Audio Engineering Ltd. has named Damian Hawley director of global marketing and sales. Hawley will manage the merged Marketing and Sales departments for the Focusrite, Novation and RedNet brands worldwide including Focusrite Novation, Inc. (the US based wholly-owned subsidiary).

Both Phil Wagner (president of Focusrite Novation, Inc) and Giles Orford (marketing director) remain in their respective positions and will continue to serve on the Board of Directors while reporting to Damian Hawley.

Dave Froker (Managing Director) comments: "Following a period of strong company performance we have decided to bring Marketing and Sales together as a single organisation to position the business for its next phase of growth."

Damian Hawley, who joined Focusrite in 2004 and became Sales Director in 2009 states: "The Focusrite and Novation brands have seen s

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UK - A new version of the Purple Guide, which aims to help organisers deliver successful events safely, has launched this week. The Guide, which was originally published in 1992, is expected by The Events Industry Forum (EIF) to be indispensable to regulators at local authorities, emergency service personnel, and the various contractors and sub-contractors who help make events happen. Like its predecessor, it is also expected to help keep Britain's expertise at events at the forefront on the world stage.

"The original Purple Guide, published by the HSE in the 1990s, had a huge impact in helping to bring a safer and more cohesive approach to event management," says Jim Winship, Secretary of the EIF and who has been co-ordinating the project. "It also helped to put the UK events industry on the map worldwide as the standards set in the Guide rapidly became adopted a

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Russia - Housed in an impressive purpose built complex in the North of Moscow, Russia's CineLab SoundMix studio complex is considered the flagship for sound in the Russian cinema post-production industry. The complex boasts a variety of studios including three Dolby Premier mixing theatres, built around Avid System 5 consoles and Pro Tools DAWs. One of the mixing stages was recently upgraded to the new Dolby Atmos format.

O M Network owner Michael Tovkalo, responsible for the installation, explained, "The whole setup demanded uncompromising signal quality. We have always found Van Damme cables extremely reliable which is why we immediately decided to use Van Damme cable solutions."

The installation required connected patch panels and dynamic processing devices using digital multicores for which Van Damme Green Series Digi Grade AES / EBU 110 Ohm UP-OFC was chosen. Fo

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UK - Lighting and visuals designer Cate Carter and Pablo Beckett of Bryte Design expanded their innovative, eye-catching video set design concept for Ellie Goulding's recent UK arena tour, in the process utilizing three of XL Video's newest LED products - Radiant MC-18 Hybrid, Radiant MC-7T and Radiant MC-18T - plus their popular Pixled F-12 screen.

XL Video also supplied cameras, a Catalyst media server for playback and PPU and crew. The account is being project managed by XL's Phil Mercer.

Carter, who operated lighting for this section of the tour, was the first person in the UK to tour the brand new Hybrid 18mm screen on Goulding's UK theatre tour - part of the same Halcyon Days album campaign - in October 2013. It features a standard medium 18 mm pitch comprising 32 x 32 pixels per panel, with 4 x 4 higher brightness (7700nit) low resolution pixels also embedded in

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Germany - Music & Sales, German manufacturers of both Hughes & Kettner and HK Audio, held their annual International Distributors Meeting with all their worldwide partners in St. Wendel, Germany last week.

One of the highlights is the annual awards ceremony, and JHS received two Outstanding Achievement Awards - Best New Distributor 2013 for Hughes & Kettner, and Best HK Audio Elements 2013 Distributor.

Alan Smith, JHS sales & marketing executive director said, "The product ranges from both HK Audio and Hughes & Kettner are truly outstanding and we're pleased our dealers are doing so well with them. There are new products from both families on the way too, so plenty more to look forward to."

(Jim Evans)

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Germany - Having presided over international trade fairs at the highest level spanning four decades, SGM boss Peter Johansen was able to declare that the recent Prolight+Sound 2014 in Frankfurt was unquestionably his best trade show experience ever.

There were numerous reasons to celebrate, not least being because LD Michael Rahr's inspired lighting concept was one of the most dynamic and interactive seen in the lighting segment of the show; it enabled visitors to address directly the cornucopia of ground-breaking LED effects.

Specifically, SGM passed several milestones. First, Michael Herweg, head of SGM Deutschland GmbH, was able to present Fürth based dry hire company, Motion Light with a special golden P-5 to mark the 1000th sale of the high-selling/high-powered energy efficient wash light.

Then another mighty company, PRG, which has already embraced the P-5, placed a m

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UK - Leading lighting designer Jonny Gaskell chose Robe moving lights to be right at the centre of his design for the latest UK leg of BRIT Award winning band Rudimental's ongoing tour.

Gaskell has been working with the chart-topping rising stars since 2013. This tour has been ongoing since last summer as their success and popularity continues to rise exponentially on the back of their debut studio album, 'Home' and their energetic live performances.

The Robe count on this tour which played theatres and arenas included 28 x Robin MMX Spots and 34 x Robin LEDWash 600s which were the backbone of the rig.

His starting point for the design was again the famous Hackney Peace Memorial mural backdrop, created for stage by Hangman using a special new technique involving two images, one on the back and one on the front of the cloth, which represented day and night versions of the mai

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USA - Derek Parker has handled lighting design for country music singer Travis Tritt for seven years and after years of using discharge spot fixtures on a steady regimen of shows, now enjoys the benefits that the 300W Satura Spot LED Pro moving head from Elation Professional brings.

"I originally stepped into the LED world for the power savings," Derek states, "but then I started to really like the brightness of some of the LED spots that are coming out, especially the Satura Spot, and decided to use them on the show."

Tritt is a multi-Grammy and CMA award-winning artist and plays anywhere from 80 to 100 shows year in and year out. His latest outing started 10 January with a series of acoustic shows before getting the full band involved for a run of shows that has him touring through September and likely longer.

Although he enjoys the Satura Spot LED's br

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UK - Saville Audio Visual provided the complete audio visual facilities for the Royal Television Society's North East awards night at the Hilton Newcastle Gateshead - for the 27th consecutive year.

Over 450 programme makers, commissioners, supporters and executives attended the event alongside a host of presenters and celebrities. The ceremony and dinner celebrated all aspects of media production in the region - from television shows to on-line programmes and video games.

The RTS North East and Borders Awards is the biggest media event in the region, honouring achievements in TV production, online programmes and video games and were expertly hosted by Steph McGovern, popular business presenter on BBC Breakfast.

Among those presenting awards was Teesside-born Stephen Tompkinson and winners included Robson Green's Tales from Northumberland, which took the best factual award. G

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UK - Adastra will be exhibiting a selection of new products from their wide range of audio equipment at the PLASA Focus in Leeds (29th - 30th April). During the event special introductory offers will be available to Adastra trade accounts opened at the show.

"We look forward to meeting up with friends old and new," the company says. "Visit Adastra on stand R-C05, leave your details to receive a free gift and collect a catalogue whilst you're there!"

Adastra is an AVSL Group Ltd brand that has been supplying public address systems for over 60 years. Synonymous with quality and reliability, Adastra offers the latest in 100V line, public address and background music systems. The diversity of the range makes Adastra a flexible, affordable solution.

Register now to attend PLASA Focus: Leeds.

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Denmark - The former Kino cinema in Odense has recently begun a new lease of life as the Danish city's latest and most modern cafe, bar and nightclub. Whether it's quiet background music during the week or loud party tunes at weekends, a Yamaha CIS series system serves up the best taste in sound.

Opened in late 2013, the cinema's new identity as UBN One is intended to deliver a completely new alternative to more traditional 'going out' places in Odense. The 900m2 venue is designed to be very versatile, giving people the opportunity to enjoy a quiet coffee or beer with friends during the day, through more lively evening socialising to committed partying at weekends.

Featuring three floors - a café and bar on the ground floor, a nightclub on the first floor and a space for parties, meetings and other events on the second, the audio system had to be both comprehensive and

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Germany - GLP (German Light Products) celebrated a landmark birthday at this year's Prolight+Sound Show in Frankfurt, when Udo Künzler, who founded the company in 1994, invited the massed ranks of international press and distributors to raise a glass and toast the company's first 20 years.

As he stood on the riser, he was surrounded by all the milestone products that have marked this evolutionary journey over two decades, commencing with the Patend light and leading up to the birth of the ground-breaking impression series in 2007. They even displayed the ill-fated 'Blue Tools' - a product that never got completed, and was described by Künzler as 'the world's most expensive coffee machine'. Hilariously, it was profiled to resemble precisely that - with a plastic coffee cup underneath lending authenticity.

Two high profile industry professionals who have contributed to sales o

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