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Flashline goes wireless at QE Olympic Park

Turbosound at London's Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - The Wireless Festival, now in its ninth consecutive year with headliners Jay-Z, Justin Timberlake, will.i.am, Snoop Dog, A Tribe Called Quest, and Rita Ora drew record crowds to London's Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. A Turbosound Flashline PA was deployed by Britannia Row Productions for the Pepsi Max Stage, which also saw appearances by Calvin Harris and Tinie Tempah.

Britannia Row Productions' Johnny Keirle was systems tech for the event and, despite arriving in the UK from New Zealand recently, has seen plenty of Flashline action. "I'm pretty familiar with Turbosound as I worked a lot with Oceania back in New Zealand, they have a large Flashlight and Floodlight rig that's one of the best sounding systems around. The very first time I heard Flashline, I loved it. Since

Martin Rush heads to DJ Expo

Details: 14 March 2016

USA - Martin returns to the annual DJ Expo in a big way with an energizing booth, #615 featuring the popular new Rushrange of affordable effect lighting.

Held 12-15 August at the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City, DJ Expo an appropriate environment to showcase Martin's new range of installation effect lights before North America's most ambitious DJ and club professionals.

The Rush Series marks Martin's focus back on the exciting world of DJ and club effects with a comprehensive range that includes profile, wash, beam, strobe and pin spot luminaires.

"The response to ush has be

Hybrid cables for any situation

Details: 14 March 2016

Germany - Sommer Cable is releasing a fully reworked and unified MonoCAT cable family. The different hybrid cables all contain network lines complemented by signal or power supply elements. This allows to connect digital sound, light or video control desks using only one cable and, as the case may be, with only one plug-in procedure. This is also suitable for applications on OB vans or in the installation or conference sectors.

Owing to the reworked internal Cat 7 construction in SFTP with a line gauge of 0.22 mm2 even greater transmission paths are now possible. This allows a trouble

The new compact Design Wash LED Zoom from Elation Professional

Elation unveils Design Wash LED Zoom

Details: 14 March 2016

USA - The new compact Design Wash LED Zoom from Elation Professional is billed as "everything a lighting pro could expect in a colour wash and more -- and. . . less". Powered by 108 high-output 3-watt Osram Ostar LEDs (40 red, 28 green, 30 blue, 10 white), which put out up to 400 foot candles at 20' / 3,900 total lumens, this moving head fixture creates "stunning colour washes via RGBW blending, allowing you to use your DMX controller to dial up just the right hue for any live show, production, church, nightclub or stage wash application".

It also comes available i

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane

City Theatrical's Wireless DMX for Charlie musical

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - City Theatrical worked closely with UK specialist lighting contractor Howard Eaton to realize the demanding wireless DMX requirements for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.

As well as using SHoW DMX Neo Transceivers and Receivers, the production marked the first use of the new D2 and D4 Dimmers.

Martin Chisnall, as well as being one of the show's production electricians, took on the role of wireless DMX consultant. He was brought on board by Howard Eaton Lighting to oversee the design and installation of the SHoW DMX Neo wireless DMX syst

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