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Europe - ETC is expanding its LED family, with the introduction of two new products: the Source Four LED Series 2, a powerful spotlight with the most expansive colour spectrum possible from an LED luminaire; and the Source Four Mini LED, an ultra-energy-efficient variation of ETC's tiniest fixture. Both were seen for the first time in public at the Prolight+Sound show in Frankfurt.

Since introducing the Source Four LED luminaire in 2012, ETC has experimented with the x7 Color System, mixing together new colour combinations to create brighter light that covers a larger spectrum. "

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USA - ZFX, Inc, will be among the exhibitors displaying products and services for the performing arts and entertainment industry at the 2014 Annual Conference and Stage Expo in Fort Worth, Texas on 26-29 March. ZFX's performer flying services cover the full spectrum from Broadway to the high school in your neighbourhood, closing in on 7,000 productions to date.

ZFX will be in booth # 809 demonstrating the ease with which you can incorporate the Bert's crowd-pleasing "proscenium walk" into your next production of Mary Poppins. Also, back by colossal demand, the fondly-

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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 confere

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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 P

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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 im

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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 wit

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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 pr

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Germany - Following the development of new software, enabling Optocore devices to be connected directly to the Optocore-DiGiCo fibre loop, the German specialists created an ambitious network at this month's Frankfurt Prolight+Sound which threatened to steal the show.

The two companies - along with Clear-Com - certainly ring fenced the opening morning with successive 'virtual' press conferences, where the media thronged to the stands - first to see DiGiCo MD James Gordon hosting, with marketing director Dave Webster speaking remotely from the Optocore stand, followed by Bob Boster, MD

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Germany - Martin Audio adds an important loudspeaker to its comprehensive range, following the official launch of the new multi-purpose DD12 at Prolight+Sound.

The multi-purpose DD12 defines the ultimate in performance and versatility for powered, two-way loudspeaker systems. It combines onboard networking, DSP and Class D amplification with state-of-the-art transducers and Differential Dispersion horn technology to achieve best-in-class performance in terms of fidelity, output capability and coverage consistency across the audience.

Differential Dispersion technology delivers more

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Germany - Yamaha Commercial Audio enjoyed a successful 2014 ProLight+Sound - not only launching the new QL series digital mixing consoles to a huge gathering of expectant media and dealers, but the company also winning one of the event's debut PIPA awards.

The launch of the QL1 and QL5 was one of the major highlights of the professional audio presence at ProLight+Sound, attracting a great deal of interest and pre-orders.

Featuring virtually all the facilities of Yamaha's CL series consoles in a very compact form, the QL1 and QL5 can be seamlessly integrated into larger CL series sys

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Germany - Had you accepted the quest, ProLight + Sound proved once again to be worth the adventure, especially if you like a good trilogy. New products from d&b audiotechnik featured prominently, most significantly: the D80 amplifier.

Why most significant? The arrival of the D80 completes the development of a three stage approach to achieving perfect sound. Also on display were the xC-Series column loudspeakers launched just one month earlier.

The D80 is nominally an amplifier, featuring more channels (4), more power (4000 watts per channel), yet in a slimmer pack (2 RU), but this s

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Germany - "It was the most successful ProLight+Sound ever for Clay Paky." Pio Nahum, Clay Paky CCO, did not mince his words when he described the results the Italian company had achieved at the Frankfurt event.

During the four-day show, Clay Paky's stand was constantly crowded with countless industry professionals from every continent. The demo area in particular was literally "taken by storm". Although over 30 demos were held, both in English and German, they were always "sold-out", forcing many determined latecomers to watch the demonstrations from the

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USA - Free registration is now open for the PLASA Focus: Baltimore 2014 Professional Development Programme, a two-day programme of free educational seminars and workshops, running alongside the PLASA Focus: Baltimore exhibition, at the Reitz Arena, Loyola University, Maryland, on 8-9 May, 2014.

The programme includes talks from some of the industry's leading talents who will discuss the latest trends, technologies and techniques, and is a unique opportunity for visitors to further develop their industry knowledge and take part in discussions.

Designer Maurice "Moe" Conn wi

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Germany - d3 Technologies, manufacturers of the world's first integrated video production system, announced their new pro range during Prolight+Sound 2014. Consisting of two new hardware products, the pro range was announced alongside r11.2, d3's new software release with four new features aiming to help improve show design and production workflow. With the company's strong focus on innovation, d3 Technologies continues to strive to enable d3 users to create and deliver the best shows on earth.

The top of the range solution, the d3 4x4pro sets a new standard for power and adaptability

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UK - New sessions have been added to the Professional Development Programme taking place at PLASA Focus: Leeds 2014, at the Royal Armouries at Clarence Dock, only a short distance from the centre of Leeds, West Yorkshire, on Tuesday 29 and Wednesday 30 April 2014.

The Professional Development Programme runs alongside a two-hall exhibition of the latest entertainment technology products. It is free to attend and offers visitors access to sessions presented by some of the most talented names in pro audio, lighting and video.

As access to new technology and music is made easier and mor

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Germany - UK automation specialist Kinesys reports a busy and successful first Prolight+Sound exhibition in Frankfurt.

The manufacturer - which enjoyed substantial growth in 2013 - launched two important new products at the show, which together with their existing dynamic product ranges, attracted lots of interest and helped create a lively buzz in Hall 9 of the Messe exhibition centre.

"We were extremely pleased with the quantity and quality of the visitors to the exhibition and their international nature," comments Kinesys MD Dave Weatherhead, who was on the stand togeth

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Germany - At Prolight+Sound Frankfurt, TMB introduced Flare Jr, a powerful new compact lighting fixture developed with technology from the popular, award-winning Flare. The Solaris LED Flare Jr, now available for shipment, features many of the breakthrough advances of the original Flare, in a package one-third the size. Flare Jr with its tremendous RGBW output performs as a combined wash/strobe/blinder and effect light, plus it features full RDM functionality and is also offered with a LumenRadio wireless control option.

"Response to Flare Jr at Prolight+Sound was fantastic, espe

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UK - Tod Machover, "America's most wired composer" (The Los Angeles Times) is today announced as the opening Keynote Speaker of the International Theatre Engineering and Architecture Conference 2014, kicking-off the three-day event in London on Sunday 8 June.

A 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Music Finalist, Machover studied at The Juilliard School and was the first Director of Musical Research at Pierre Boulez's IRCAM in Paris. He is the Muriel R. Cooper Professor of Music and Media at the MIT Media Lab (Cambridge USA), where he is also Director of its Opera of the Future Group. Si

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Germany - At this year's Prolight+Sound Sommer Cable once again presented their product portfolio at a large booth. On an area greater than 100s.qm one could see many products and ideas around the topics of cables and lines, connectors and connection technology, signal processing as well as mechanical solutions for mobile and permanent installations.

The focus of attention lay on the latest developments in the Cardinal DVM in-house brand.

As of now the popular DVM 120 series is broadened by the single-channel model versions DVM-120-DIS and DVM-120-DISH. Owing to their transformers f

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Germany - The launch of LightGeist's new product range, the LightStick, the Badger and the Splodger, proved an unmitigated success at the Prolight+Sound show in Frankfurt.

Exhibiting for the first time, the LightGeist team was delighted with the impact the new products had on visitors and the instant response they generated.

"Visitors were fascinated with the effects produced by LightStick and the flexibility and versatility of Badger and Splodger," says LightGeist CCO, Nigel Hedley. "Our new 'cloud lighting' technology aroused great curiosity and we are encouraged by

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Germany - Robert Juliat experienced a successful show at Prolight + Sound, Frankfurt with a constant stream of visitors keeping the stand exceptionally busy over the four days.

Robert Juliat chose to refocus attention on its followspot range to reinvigorate its presence in the German market. The models on show - the Cyrano 2500W HMI, Lancelot 4000W HTI and Victor 1800W MSR - proved a great hit, not only in the German market but also with the international presence that was so evident at the show.

"The quantity and quality of visitors to our stand from all over the world confirm

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UK - Total Solutions Group are gearing up for PLASA Focus Leeds 2014, and it will be the first time at the event for project manager, Nigel Tranter. Nigel has been responsible for designing large projects over the years for TSG.

TSG will be exhibiting this year on stand N-B26 where pictures of recent projects including the Winter Olympics and the Olivier Awards, will be displayed. The OV Truss which was launched at the PLASA Focus show last year (and will be on the stand), has been greatly received and TSG reports an extensive list of clients after its first year of production.

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UK - As Meyer Sound's official partner for the north of England, the centrepiece of Pro Audio Systems' stand at PLASA Focus Leeds (29-30 April 2014) will be the manufacturer's latest loudspeaker technology, the new MJF-210 stage monitor. This will be the first public showing of the new unit anywhere in the UK.

PAS's rental division were the first in the UK to add MJF-210s to their inventory, and the new modules have already completed their first hire jobs to great acclaim. Road-ready stock is available for demonstration purposes whether prospective clients are looking to rent or purch

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UK - MilTec (UK) Ltd will be showcasing a wide range of new products at the PLASA Focus show in April (Stand N-C07). In addition to the usual stand in the New Dock Hall, the company will have a live demo room in the Holiday Inn Hotel next door. Demos will be running all day and will give visitors an opportunity to listen to the successful Blakite range of speakers and to see a selection of LED lighting products.

The Blakite speakers were designed by MilTec and are built in the UK. Most are loaded with British drivers. New additions to the range are a compact stage wedge, loaded with a

  1. RCF takes big guns to the Royal Armouries
  2. RSG brings audio & video together for PLASA Focus
  3. The Riggers' Forum is coming to Leeds
  4. RGGLED enjoys busy ProLight+Sound
  5. d&b goes live in Leeds
  6. ETC offers students sponsorship to LDI 2014
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