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Soundcraft expands digital range with Si Compact 32

The Si Compact 32 – the latest addition to the range from Soundcraft.

Details: 14 March 2016

Germany - Soundcraft's Si Compact range has grown with the latest release of the Si Compact 32, which can deliver 40 inputs to mix, while maintaining the full DSP functionality of its smaller siblings, the Si Compact 24 and 16 models.

The Si Compact 32 features 14 main busses (all with dynamics, delays and BSS graphic EQs), four matrix buses, four dedicated FX buses, four full-time Lexicon effects engines and a range of option cards to interface with other systems such as Aviom, CobraNet, AES/EBU and MADI.

All Si Compact models can connect via MADI to the new Compact Stagebox, adding remote connectivity to these great value digital mixers.

"We believe that this very cost-effective, powerful mixer will be a natural choice for larger install or medium tour sound and house o

The Zero 88 ORB console gets latest addition to Zero 88's suite of remote applications.

Cooper Controls at PLASA Focus: Leeds 2011

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - Cooper Controls will be presenting the latest developments in its Zero 88 entertainment lighting control range at PLASA Focus: Leeds 2011. New to the show this year is the ZerOS Android application - Zero 88's latest addition to its suite of remote applications. Continuing the commitment to mobile device integration, this new app adds to their existing suite of iPhone, iPod, iPad and Windows Mobile applications.

The ZerOS Remote Android app, the first for the entertainment technology industry, allows remote control of any ZerOS co

Barco enlivens Roger Waters' The Wall

Details: 14 March 2016

USA - Barco is enhancing the magic of Roger Waters' The Wall tour as it continues around the world, providing a combination of video and lighting equipment including 15 FLM HD20 projectors, five FLM R22+ projectors, five Encore presentation systems, and from High End Systems, 32 Cyberlight 2.0 units and a Road Hog Full Boar console.

Show creative directors set out with the ambitious goal to authentically reproduce the concert venue and show created 30 years ago for Pink Floyd, including building an exact replica of the 1980 set. Fabricating the wall each night, brick-by-brick i

The MP-5 moving head luminaire from SGM.

Johansen introduces first batch of new SGM products

Details: 14 March 2016

Italy / Germany - At last week's Prolight&Sound exhibition in Frankfurt, SGM unveiled the first fruits of the new R&D team headed by the former founder of Martin Professional, Peter Johansen. A total of seven new products were launched, all based on LED lighting technology. Johansen believes that the new products will revolutionise all fields of LED application - from fixed architectural to mobile concert touring.

In all its stylish new LED models, the company says cooling methods have been improved via rectangular heatsinks, set-up and address procedures improved with the aid of inte

Pictured at ProLight&Sound, Frankfurt - Mike Wheeler, operations director of EM Acoustics, with the X3 system. (photo: PLASA Media)

EM Acoustics introduces X3 at ProLight&Sound

Details: 14 March 2016

UK / Germany - UK-based professional loudspeaker manufacturer EM Acoustics revealed its brand new X3 horn-loaded PA system, the long-awaited companion to the mighty Quake subwoofer, at the ProLight&Sound exhibition in Frankfurt last week.

On the drawing board for over six years, the X3 was finally brought to life at the behest of Show Atelier, EM Acoustics' Russian distributor, who saw X3 as an ideal product for their market. The system comprises a horn-loaded 15" LF drive unit, a horn-loaded 8" MF drive unit and six 1" compression drivers on a bespoke waveguide, creati

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