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DiGiCo managing director James Gordon commented: "Before booking a stand at PLASA 2010 we had to evaluate our heavy commitments to PL&S and the Montreux Jazz Festival. Through the process it just became clear PLASA is such an important date in our calendar and DiGiCo just has to be there in 2010."

DiGiCo can be found on stand 1-E4, at the front of Earl's Court 1 among a host of other pro-audio brands such as Allen & Heath, HK Audio, Equipson and Roland.

Also joining a long string of pro-audio brands that have committed to PLASA in recent weeks is KV2 Audio: having moved stands from its 2009 location, KV2 Audio can now be fo

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Says 5 Star's Keith Sykes: "ABTT has always been a good show for us. The atmosphere is friendly and not too frantic, and it allows time to network, mix and talk business with our clients and friends in a semi-social environment."

The latest new product is a portable lectern system, which comes complete with integral heavy industrial grade case. This has been developed to address all the frustrating and time consuming issues surrounding setting up lecterns.

5 Star's stylish lectern is manufactured from birch plywood which is CNC machined at their factory in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire on one of three Thermwood CNC machining centres. It is aimed at AV rental companies operating

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HD Pro Audio has chosen ABTT to announce its appointment as an L-Acoustics Certified Provider, and to show a range of the company's sound reinforcement products. Commenting for HD Pro Audio, Andy Huffer said, "L-Acoustics universal system approach is designed to provide clients with complete solutions at the highest, most predictable level of performance. This is backed by its network of Certified Providers, ensuring technical support, user education and sound design, and we're very pleased be joining this network."

This year's Ateis focus will be on their advanced Stag

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Spread across three booths, Martin US will also have on the show floor its Brighter World road show trailer, which is half way through a successful 30-city national education tour that is exposing lighting professionals to the latest Martin gear through local on-site presentations.

The EC series represents the new generation of indoor and outdoor LED screens and combines the image quality and precision of conventional high resolution screens (20 mm pixel pitch) with the creativity and low weight of mesh type screens. The EC-20 is designed for rapid setup and teardown in combination with maximum flexibility and easy serviceability.

The LC Plus is a modular system of semi-transparent LED video panels (40 mm pixel pitch) with new generat

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Speaking to delegates from the architectural, acoustic, engineering and technological disciplines will be Charcoalblue's managing director Andy Hayles, creative director Jon Stevens, design director Gavin Green and senior consultant Giles Favell. Each will draw from their own experience, gained from careers in the entertainment and theatre industry and as design consultants for Charcoalblue.

Andy Hayles will join Scott Crossfield of Theatre Projects and Vassily Laffineur of Renzo Piano Building Workshop to discuss the Design Processes in the Information Age. Hayles comments, ''We're delighted to have been invited to sponsor and speak at such a significant industry

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The latest addition to Allen & Heath's range of digital consoles gets its UK launch. The iDR-64 is a large, fixed I/O version of the iLive MixRack and is able to work with the same firmware as the other products in the range. It will be on display alongside the recently introduced iLive-R72 controller and the iDR-16.

Yamaha Commercial Audio is to show an Ethersound version of its M7CL digital mixing des

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J. R. Clancy joins Niscon Inc, and Verlinde SA in Best of All Worlds, a distribution and partnership agreement formed by theatrical technology dealer Hoist UK. Clancy has been involved in all of the ITEAC conferences since the first one in 2002, and is the only US manufacturer to participate in all of the ITEAC events.

As part of their sponsorship, representatives from the companies will join panel discussions at ITEAC on rigging issues.

Technical representatives from the Best of All Worlds will be available throughout ITEAC and the ABTT Theatre Show immediately following ITEAC, to discuss specific project requirements at a quieter stand in Lawrence Hall.

"We at J. R. Clancy recognise the vital learni

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"We established Goboland UK as a gobo company dedicated to the UK market," says Enever, "which is something that our customers have really responded to in a very positive way. We find people like the local nature of the company and the rapid response to their enquiries and gobo needs that we provide. We offer the same quality of product, attention to detail and customer service which have always been the key to our success and the business is increasing rapidly as a result."

Last year's ABTT saw the launch of the company's Credit Crunch Gobo to celebrate the formation of Gobol

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The organisers are looking for controllers, monitoring equipment, signal distribution devices, luminaires, accessories, and other devices that use the American National Standards developed by ESTA's Control Protocols Working Group, particularly ANSI E1.11, E1.17, E1.20, and E1.31, otherwise known by their acronyms DMX512-A, ACN, RDM, and sACN (streaming DMX-type data using ACN) respectively. The devices will be shown working together as part of a multi-protocol network to show the utility and compatibility of the protocols.

The Connectivity Pavilion at LDI 2010 will be a 10ft by 30ft space across from the ESTA/World ETF booth. The Pavilion provides a d

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The conference, which returns to the UK from 13-15 June, is in a new location at the Central Hall Westminster, London. The programme includes around 30 presentations and moderated debates in a structure that allows delegates to attend up to 10 sessions and the 2010 theme is ensuring that performing arts buildings are fit for purpose now, and in the future.

Session topics include stage engineering standards, power flying operation, the principles of stage engineering and technical planning, as well as sessions on lighting and auditorium design.

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Promoted at the event, Prolyte Theatre Products is a strategic alliance of partners Prolyte Products Group, Silicon Theatre Scenery and Silk Production Design, focusing on the theatre market.

"We have valuable know-how to offer to this audience of architects, consultants, installers and theatre professionals; not to lecture, but to add to and share with the already existing knowledge. This conference offers a special mutual leaning opportunity for the benefit of our customers and end-users" states Michiel van der Zijde, product manager for Prolyte Theatre Products.

The presence of Prolyte Theatre Products as Gold Sponsor at the ITEAC is supported by a team of sales and technical representatives who will be attending the confe

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The awards are an outstanding marketing and promotional opportunity for nominees and winners. Finalists and winners are featured in Protocol, multiple press releases distributed to industry media, on the ESTA website, and at the LDI show and ESTA Dinner.

Contestants for the 2009 awards showcased a wide variety of new products and product applications from the simplest problem solver to complex uses of technology that extended the boundaries of the entertainment technology field. Pro

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Hawthorn's installation team have been installing ETC control and dimming equipment, including Congo desks, into many venues and been very impressed by their reliability and flexibility. Head of installations Alan Jackson, said, "This allows us to provide additional support to our customers and add servicing of Congo's to our ServiceSafe portfolio."

Hawthorn's hire manager, Dave Slater, commented, "We've received nothing but praise for the Congos from a variety of venues, so adding them to rental stock was the logical next step; there's already been a lot of interest from our customers."

Alan Jackson, head of installations at Hawthorns, will be on the stand this year to discuss Service

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The list of companies taking stands at The ABTT Theatre Show 2010 covers the spectrum of products and services for the theatre production and staging market, with a strong showing from the engineering sector, but also from the sound and lighting fraternity. Some of the highlights of brand new innovations at the show include:

Soundcraft's Vi1 digital mixer is the highlight of the Sound Technology stand. In a compact footprint, the Vi1 features the Vistonics user interface.

London Light Production Services is exhibiting for the first time to raise awareness of its services offered to the theatre and events industry, including lighting design, production, equipment hire and sales of integrated AV and lighting systems.

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5 Star will be showcasing specialist cases aimed primarily at the aerospace, military and engineering sectors, all of which will be displayed on a purpose-built exhibition stand designed specially for FIA 2010. The stand was also built by the 5 Star team at their facility in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire.

It is the first time that 5 Star has participated in the show. "It reflects a growing interest from new sectors in our products, and our intention to diversify and expand," explains Keith Sykes. In the past 2 years, 5 Star has designed and built bespoke tool cases for the Red Bull Air Race pilots and also cased a number of racing cars.

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LTM recently purchased 100% of the shares in COW Lifting Technology - the Aichach (near Munich, Germany) based manufacturer of BGV C1 and SIL 3 chain hoists, winch and control systems.

Together the two companies offer solutions for most lifting and control applications within the entertainment industry.

LTM is showing the LoadGuard electric chain hoists in capacities from 250kg to 5 tonnes as standard rigging hoists and to all current European entertainment standards.

COW Lifting Technology is showing the C-Force range of hoists, winches and control systems. C-Force products specialise in fixed or variable speed hoist and control systems to BGV C1 and up to SIL 3 performance standards.

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Wireless Tecpro enables members of the group to talk to and listen to all the other members simultaneously, using wireless beltpacks. In addition an unlimited number of listen-only wireless beltpacks can be added to the system, for personnel who only need to monitor conversations. An interface is in the final stages of development which replaces one of the full-duplex users with a con

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Production guru Hadden Hipsley of Lambda Productions once again called on Bandit Lites to serve as prime lighting contractor for the three-day arts and music festival. Bandit's Dizzy Gosnell works with Hadden, Leslie Radigan, Joel Carmichael, AC Entertainment, Superfly Productions and Coran Capshaws Red Light Management to provide the artists with their illumination needs at the award-winning event.

Artists at the 2010 Bonnaroo included Dave Mathews Band, The Kings of Leon, Stevie Wonder

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These products are complemented by loudspeakers from d&b audiotechnik, together with digital mixing consoles from Digidesign, and Roland RSS digital multicores and consoles. Completing the product line-up are Telex and RTS intercom systems. Orbital is also presenting its Noise at Work assessment service for theatres, production companies and venue managers.

The Da-Cappo product range includes the DA-12 single-ear microphone and the DA-04 lapel microphone, plus the award-winning DA-15 single-ear microphone with an in-ear monitor piece. Manufactured in Australi

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The live stage production is similar to a television variety show, with many elements from Late Night With Conan O'Brien including sidekick Andy Richter and members of the show's band. The tour also includes video bits, musical and comic performances and cameo appearances by celebrities, while O'Brien himself performs music throughout the production.

Before shipping out the Vertec line arrays to Los Angeles for initial rehearsals, Audio Analysts fine-tuned the entire system at its headquarters in Colorado Springs, Colorado. "The reliable perfor

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In Luxembourg, Audio Vision takes over the distribution. Audio Vision is familiar with the fields of theatre and media installations and also with live events. The first projects are already in the planning stage and should be realised with Kling & Freitag products.

In Turkey, Dinakord will take over sales. Up to now, Dinakord was mainly operating in the MI business. The distribution of Kling & Freitag is emphasises their ambition to extend activities to the ProAudio market.

Acti-Tech from Nigeria is the first official representation for K&F on the African continent, selling the Kling & Freitag products mainly in installations. Peter Madu, manager of Acti-Tech comments, "I am happy that with the brand Kling & Freitag I will be able to include in my sa

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Working in conjunction with a major television broadcaster, Waves crafted a real-time processing chain consisting of two plug-ins which proved effective in solving the task at hand: The WNS Waves Noise Suppressor and the Q10 Paragraphic Equalizer. These two audio plug-ins together not only reduce the Vuvuzela noise, they increase the intelligibility of the game announcers' play-by-play action and colour commentary, claims the company. In fact

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The prime-time Saturday show, MC'd by Gerry Scotti, featured 29 singers aged between seven and 15 from singing schools across the country, competing for a trip to the US for a study vacation under the wing of top international producer David Foster. The entrants sang solo and together, as well as duetting with some of Italy's top pop names, accompanied by a resident 33-piece band.

The show's impressive set, designed by Marco Calzavara occupied a third of Studio 20, one of the country's largest TV

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Showsec operations director Simon Battersby was appointed as the festival's head of security, prior to seven months strategic planning that led into coordinating 1300 security professionals and stewards at the event. Headline acts AC/DC, Rage Against the Machine and Aerosmith were among 125 bands entertaining the dedicated rock fans over three days.

Battersby comments, "Live Nation were keen to have a more co-ordinated overriding security operation which managed the increased size and scale of Download this year more effectively. My new role within the festival management team meant that I engaged all stakeholders from Leicestershire police, licensing autho