UK - Italian acoustic specialist dBTechnologies will present its new UK sales team at the forthcoming PLASA Focus in Leeds. Products to be exhibited are the highlights of the DVA series, including its largest line array module DVA T12 and the active subwoofer DVA S30N, alongside the three Flexsys FM stage monitors and the brand new Cromo 15+ from the recently launched Cromo+ range.

The dBTechnologies team will be welcoming visitors at S-D29 this year with the help of newest recruits, David Finlay and Reuben McCartney. Finlay is responsible for the north of England having gained many y

USA - J.R. Clancy was honoured at USITT's 2012 Annual Conference in Long Beach, CA, with the USITT Award for a lifetime of contributions to the performing arts. J. R. Clancy president Mike Murphy received the award on behalf of the company.

The USITT Award recognises a lifetime of distinguished contribution to the performing arts or entertainment communities in any capacity. The nomination notes that, in the case of J.R. Clancy, "the USITT Award recognises not just a lifetime but several generations of distinguished contributions to the performing arts and entertainment community

UK - Hall Stage will be exhibiting at PLASA Focus: Leeds 2012 with the innovative Chaindrive system for T60 & T70 track systems amongst the products on show. This new system enables heavy curtain motorisation through tight & complex curves, even in 'rearfold' format - without the need for additional & expensive 'off-stage' storage space.

Also on the stand will be samples of Skydeck wire grid floor systems (Hall Stage has recently completed a 1,200 square metre Skydeck installation in the UK) and the acoustically tested and analysed range of acouStac acoustic banners and rollers.

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UK - 25 years after introducing its first digital mixing console, Yamaha is showcasing its latest generation of digital consoles at PLASA Focus: Leeds 2012.

Retaining essential features and functionality that have become standards over the past quarter of a century, Yamaha's new CL Series of digital mixing consoles offers "an evolved experience in accessible mixing", the company says. "Combined with sonic purity and advanced sound shaping capabilities, the CL Series gives the most imaginative artists and engineers unprecedented creative freedom".

Three models wil

UK - Innovation Productions invite PLASA Focus: Leeds visitors to check out the new iSplay lighting controller from its sister company, Innovation Solutions. "This is a cost effective yet extremely powerful DMX controller that can be used in a variety of different applications such as stand-alone or scheduled replay, in theatre or live mode in conjunction with a PC or in back-up or trigger mode to offer flexibility and security when handling DMX data," says the company.

The trussing and staging platform solutions available from Stage Athletics will be at centre stage togethe

UK - The team at Philips Selecon will be showing its latest developments in entertainment LED lighting technology at industry trade event, PLASA Focus Leeds.

Following the success of the PL1 LED spot and PL3 LED wash lights in the TV and theatre markets, the Selecon sales team reports equally positive feedback from dealers and end users to its newly launched LED products - the Studio Panel and PLCyc - at Frankfurt ProLight+ Sound 2012.

"Both luminaires generated extremely encouraging responses from our visiting dealers and end users in Frankfurt," says Grant Bales Smith, s

UK - Lighting, dimming and control manufacturer ETC is gearing up for a busy PLASA Focus 2012, in Leeds, 17-18 April.

The company's new Source Four LED fixture is set to receive its first major UK public showing, with demonstrations on the stand (S-C6), allowing visitors to compare its output to incandescent Source Four luminaires.

When the Source Four LED was demonstrated at Prolight +Sound in Frankfurt, it drew large, enthusiastic crowds.

The luminaire will be initially available in three versions: Source Four LED Lustr+, Source Four LED Daylight and Source Four LED Tungsten, br

UK - On show at Focus: Leeds, the new Viper family of MAC moving heads is a whole new breed of high-performance luminaire from Martin Professional. It features an aggressive combination of intense light output from advanced lamp technology and an innovative feature set on the leading edge of the evolutionary scale. "All in a slender, agile body that moves deceptively fast; light, compact, bright and very quick," says the company.

In addition, visitors will have the opportunity of seeing the brand new VC Series of creative LED video that combine an "all-new level of simp

UK - JHS and HK Audio will unveil the Lucas Nano 300 and the new Linear 5 Line at PLASA Focus: Leeds.

"The Lucas Nano 300's ultra-compact subwoofer and two fist-sized satellites are sure to astonish and amaze with an audio experience to rival that of far larger systems," says the company. The subwoofer houses the electronics and a versatile three-channel mixing console so that the Lucas Nano 300 is ready for immediate use without any additional equipment.

"The two satellites lock into a transport bay on the subwoofer with a simple twist of the wrist. And thanks to its

UK - The Association of British Theatre Technicians (ABTT) and the Stage Management Association (SMA) will hold this spring's Production Managers Forum (PMF) meeting - open to all - at the forthcoming PLASA Focus, Leeds, on Tuesday 17 April at 11.30am, in the Royal Armouries Bury Theatre.

Founded in 2000, the PMF was created as a joint venture between the two associations, in recognition that there was no organisation dedicated to the specific needs of the production manager.

Since then, the PMF has held three to four meetings a year, on various subjects ranging from International c

UK - Traction Sound and its distributor RWS Prosound will show off Traction Sound's PLASA Innovation Award nominated SDS Range of loudspeakers on Stand S-C19 at PLASA Focus, Leeds. They will also be running demonstrations of the products in the Lancelot Room at the Holiday Inn Express, adjacent and opposite to the exhibition centres.

Traction Sound's range of installation and portable pro audio speakers feature SDS Horn technology, the advantages of which Traction's technical specialist, Andy Pardoe explains: "The SDS Horn is a high frequency device that utilises multiple high-po

UK - MT Pro Ltd will be making its first visit to PLASA Focus since becoming the distribution arm of MilTec (UK) Ltd at the beginning of this year.

"We are really looking forward to the show because sales have been very strong in the 'pro' sector of the business for the last six months." commented sales director David Faulkes. "Our product range has been expanded and refined and we have been making inroads into the stage, corporate and events markets.

"This has been mainly due to strong sales of our LED moving heads and wireless uplighters, backed up by new produ

UK - Maltbury will once again be exhibiting at PLASA Focus: Leeds (17-18 April 2012).

"This year we have some exciting new projects to show you including our work with electricity generating pavements - Pavegen," says the company.

Maltbury Staging has made its name in the performing arts field, but in recent years has worked on a number of collaborative projects in a range of very different areas.

"It is true that these projects often involve people standing on a raised structure but nowadays it is as likely to be a fitter in a factory, an engineer down a railway sh

UK - RCF will have representation from its premium ranges on show at PLASA Focus: Leeds (April 17-18).

Leading the charge will be D LINE flagship, the HDL 20-A active line array. With purpose-designed transducers, a unique, composite cabinet and powerful DSP processing, it is driven from a 1400 Watt Peak Power amplifier.

From the TT+ (Touring & Theatre) range is the TTL 11A digitally steerable active column array. Composed of mid-high and bass modules, powerful 96 kHz, 32 bit DSP provides the signal processing and 2000 W digital amplifiers power each of the modules.

RCF will also

UK - Visitor registration for PLASA Focus: Leeds 2012 closes at 5pm today. Don't miss out, register for your free visitor badge today and experience the largest get-together of entertainment technology professionals in the North.

Registration is free, choose from 20 free seminars and meet 130 exhibitors across two sold-out halls. Plus, who says there's no such thing as a free lunch? Free lunch will be served from 1pm on both days of the event.

PLASA Focus: Leeds 2012 takes place at The Royal Armouries in Leeds on Tuesday 17 & Wednesday 18 April. Don't mis

UK - Backstage Academy has started accepting applications for its Live Events Production Foundation Degree, due to start in November 2012. It has also launched a range of short courses for Spring 2012.

Based at the LS-Live rehearsal studios in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, the Academy benefits from its links to some of the world's leading productions and production personnel, tailoring courses to suit the evolving demands of the sector. Courses take place in its state-of-the-art training centre and Apple Authorised Training Suite, adjacent to the studio where the likes of Kylie, Dizzee R

UK - PLASA Focus this year sees the UK launch of Cooper Controls' new network and data distribution products. Designed for compatibility with the RDM standard, these products are designed for future-proof installation or touring systems where data distribution needs to support the latest in control protocols.

The EtherN.2 RDM and EtherN.8 RDM feature Art-Net to DMX conversion, together with RDM support, whilst the Split2.8 RDM is a two-input, eight-output RDM enabled DMX splitter designed to add flexibility to DMX splitting situations, with an A/B switch on each output to select the d

UK - Roland Systems Group will be exhibiting professional audio and video products for mixing, recording and web streaming at PLASA Focus, stand number RA-A9, including the VR-3 AV Mixer, R-1000 48 Track Recorder/Player and the M-480 48 Channel Live Mixing Console - showcasing the recently launched V1.5 firmware update for this popular console.

The V1.5 firmware update for the M-480 increases the number of DCA groups from 8 to 24 giving the engineer a massive jump in controllability in larger or more complex mixes as well as when using the M-480 in 96 channel cascade configurations. T

UK - Martin Professional heads to Leeds on 17 April for PLASA Focus 2012 where a new breed of moving head - the MAC Viper Profile - and much more will be on display at Martin stand S-E16.

Join Martin April 17-18 at the Royal Armouries Museum for an up close look at the MAC Viper along with a host of other new products like the all-new VC series of creative LED video solutions, a new portable lighting controller in the M-Series, and a new compact hazer in Martin's Jem family.

The Martin MAC Viper Profile is a new breed of high-performance profile luminaire with the qualities of a bet

UK - FBT UK are exhibiting at PLASA Focus 2012 in Leeds and look forward to welcoming visitors to Stand S-A26 where they will be introduced to the latest additions to FBT's loudspeaker ranges. Particular focus will be on MITUS sound reinforcement systems, StageMaxX stage monitors, and the new Shadow series of extreme weather resistant speaker enclosures.

FBT MITUS is a comprehensive and flexible range of powered and passive line arrays for live sound touring and permanent installs. At this year's PLASA focus, FBT is showing its new additions to the existing MITUS range. These include

Germany - Loudspeaker manufacturer Coda Audio reported a successful Prolight+Sound this year, with interest in its products continuing to come from a diverse array of territories. As well as its current range of loudspeaker cabinets, including the CoRAY4 which was demonstrated in the Portable Sound Arena and AIRLINE LA12, demonstrated in the Concert Sound Arena, Coda exhibited the C3, a new amplification product, as well as revealing its ability to now supply a Polyurea coating for all cabinets upon request.

The C3 is a rugged, 19 inch / 2U high performance, two channel power amplifie

UK - Entec's sound division again supplied a powerful d&b system to the 2012 Teenage Cancer Trust (TCT) shows at London's Royal Albert Hall (RAH), taking the opportunity to use the new d&b V-Series speakers as part of the main system for the high profile event.

Entec has supplied audio to TCT at Albert Hall since it started 12 years ago, and for the last four years, the system has been designed and overseen by Liam Halpin for the west London based rental company. Entec has used d&b on TCT for all 12 years, ever since it became their first-choice rental brand.

The RAH event involves

China - At close of day two of InfoComm China 2012, attendance at the show was 14,868, representing a 39% increase over its previous showing in 2011. Final attendance at close of the three-day exhibition is expected to breach 16,000, a record turnout in the history of the show.

The 30 sessions of the InfoComm China Summit education programme also attracted a record attendance of 1,550 delegates, more than double that of last year.

The organizers have already announced that the 2013 show will expand to Halls 5 and 6 next year to cater to the additional demand for space, not just from

USA - PLASA Focus: Nashville 2012 is set to welcome a raft of new exhibitors as the two-day event continues to grow, with over 20 companies now committed to taking part and as many applications being processed. The event takes place 11-12 July, at the Nashville Municipal Auditorium, TN, and is the first of its kind to be held in the region.

Confirmed exhibitors include: Barbizon, IATSE, Seachanger, Hive/Interspace, Show Sage, Ultratec, LynTec, Nicolaudie America Inc., Thern Stage Equipment, Coolux, Doug Fleenor Design, Chauvet, Robe, High End Systems, White Light, Creative Stage Light

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