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UK - The latest addition to the Chroma-Q range of colour changers is the Cascade, which utilises two internal gel-strings and the latest technology to provide over 300 useable colours from a single unit. Offering the same level of reliability and affordable technology, the new compact and lightweight Cascade offers many new features and enhancements creating the most versatile Chroma-Q to date.

A Universal Mounting System (UMS) eliminates the need for individual mounting plates, and by simple adjustment makes this unit instantly compatible with a range of lanterns with up to a 175mm lens, suitable for up to 50º beam angle (without light loss). The Cascade is supplied complete with gel-strings, and further benefits from an integrated heat shield, which increases gel-string longevi

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Germany / UK - Columbus McKinnon has announced a change to the distribution of its entertainment products within Europe. With immediate effect, Pfaff Stage Technology, based in Augsburg, Germany, will concentrate on industrial lifting solutions only, while their UK-based subsidiary, PCM, will now be servicing all of Europe for Columbus McKinnon's entertainment products, including the market-leading Lodestar chain hoist. PCM will now also be manufacturing specialist Lodestar hoists in the UK. These specials include models to meet the German BGV C1 standard and were previously produced by Pfaff in Germany.

In order to maintain a mainland Europe stock of product, CM has also announced the addition of Sonoss of Lille, France to its Master Distribution network. "Sonoss has sold the Lodestar and our other products for some time, but they are now investing in stocks of our most po

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USA - QSC's revamped website is now making its online debut with new, easy-to-navigate pages sporting sleek graphics and a number of other enhancements. A useful and entertaining tool for everyone from seasoned touring pros and contractors to consultants and even garage bands on their way up, the site has been completely overhauled with refinements including an ability to conduct searches for any product from any page using either the navigation bar, search engine, or drop-down menus.

Products are listed by market category, and all relevant information on each of those products ranging from detailed specs to user manuals can be viewed from a single location. One of the most other noticeable elements within the site's broadened scope is its expanded image base. In relevant cases, product photos reveal front and rear panel views on the same page at the simple movement of the curso

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UK - Avesco plc has announced that it plans to converge Screenco with its Creative Technology London business. Explaining the move, Graham Andrews, chief executive of the Creative Technology Group, stated: "We really started this process nearly a year ago. Our plans will be to provide an integrated CT and Screenco service from a single site and we are currently looking for a new building, since none of our existing premises are large enough."

He added: "Screenco remains extremely successful - largely as a specialist screen operation - and in our changing market, we think it makes better sense to consolidate it with CT. Until we are able to centralize our workforce and equipment within a single building, we intend to establish a combined CT and Screenco structure, with single sales, project management and operations teams - and one combined group of technicians. Th

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UK - 1 and Dolby Laboratories have announced a collaboration to study 1's proprietary Digital Sound Projector technology for the commercial cinema market. Digital Sound Projector technology creates highly controllable sound beams. From a single panel, which comprises an array of transducers, sound beams are formed which can be focused and dynamically steered to create exciting new audio effects.

David Lewis, 1's sales and marketing director told us: "Our technology could offer a new level of realism to cinema audiences. For example, we can align the movement of a sound beam with an aeroplane as its sweeps across the screen, or position a beam above the audience to accurately locate the noise of a helicopter landing."

The collaboration opens up a new market for 1's technology within the commercial cinema and film industry. This agreement with Dolby Laboratories follow

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ETC Halcyon Silent

High End Systems Halcyon Silent builds on ETC’s legacy of fanless automated fixtures by incorporating features from the highly sought-after Halcyon family. Halcyon Silent perfectly balances silent operation with brilliant output of 18,400 lumens and high-impact features. 

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UK - Formed by the performers and technicians of the Central Show at the Millennium Dome as their year's work there came to an end, The Generating Company is a circus-based performance company that, over the last year, has managed to balance the demands of pure performance and the need to be commercially viable. A large part of this success has been due to their show Storm, which has enjoyed a number of successful performances, most recently at the Barbican Theatre in London, but which also formed the centrepiece of last year's launch of the new Audi A8 saloon.

As Storm's lighting designer, White Light North's Jack Thompson, explains: "We first created the show at the Circus Space in Hoxton, then we converted it to a proscenium arch format at the Theatre Royal in York in late 2001, and we then toured that production. Lots of people saw the show and enjoyed it,

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UK - Eddie Hirad, the former engineering manager at Lighting Technology, has set up a new company - Vipco Lighting & Sound - to service the lighting and sound industries.

Based in West London, the company will specialize in the manufacture and distribution of connectors and extension cables, details of which feature on the company's recently-launched website, which previews the full range of products and services on offer. Hirad is a well-known industry figure, and his company is fast becoming known for working weekends and through the night, to deliver those all too common, industry rush jobs.

(Ruth Rossington)

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Create new traditions – Cameo P6 - High Output Full-Spectrum Ellipsoidal

Cameo's P6 is a future-proof LED profiler with a powerful 600 W RGBACL engine and 16,000 lumens. It’s an energy-efficient replacement for 2.5 kW halogen profile lights in theatres and venues. With excellent light quality and natural colour rendering, it fits perfectly in theatres, musicals, TV studios, congresses, and live events.

With an LED life of 50,000 hours and low power use, the P6 cuts energy costs and supports the EU’s ‘Green Deal’ goals for climate neutrality by 2050. It also meets updated eco-design rules for lighting.

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UK - Avolites, the west London-based lighting control manufacturer, is holding a series of 'Awareness Days' for its new ART 2000i installation dimmer range of products. The Days are designed to highlight the benefits and practicalities of using the ART 2000i dimmer range and will feature a presentation from designer JB Toby.

The ART2000i was launched at PLASA last year, and is already proving popular for all types of installation applications. Recent ART installs include 672 channels for a new studio in Beirut for the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation, a smaller system for the new Moat Theatre Club, Naas in County Kildare, Ireland, and the first UK system into Blackpool Grand Theatre. It is the first foray into the installation market by Avolites, and the company has plans to expand its installation product range in the future.

Huge interest has been registered in the dimmer f

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UK - Shuttlesound, the UK distribution subsidiary of Telex EVI, has announced the promotion of its sales manager Sean Maxwell to the position of director of sales. Maxwell, who joined the company as a sales rep five years ago, will now assume a key role in Shuttlesound's strategic planning and corporate development. He told us: "One of my main responsibilities will be the positioning of Shuttlesound, both in the marketplace we currently operate in but also in terms of exploring new market opportunities which can offer us fresh potential."

His remit will also include further streamlining of the Shuttlesound sales operation, ensuring greater coordination between the sales office in south London and its team of representatives on the road.

(Lee Baldock)

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UK - Marquee Audio has designed and supplied a new stage monitor system to be piloted by the McKenzie Group in their Carling Academy in Bristol. According to MKG's managing director, John Northcote, the move is not only in line with the company's policy of maintaining a solid audio infrastructure for visiting bands, but also reflects the expanding secondary usage of Academy venues for smaller up-and-coming groups.

If successful, the move could lead to a standardization throughout the McKenzie Group's live venue portfolio. Explaining the rationale, John Northcote told us: "We look at Academy venues from three viewpoints: for full-on shows, for club nights and now for small 400-500 capacity gigs where up-and-coming bands can plug into an existing set-up."

In addition to the new stage set-up in Bristol Marquee Audio has provided FOH augmentation with the first of Soundc

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France - Since 2000, the French theme park Puy du Fou has used L-Acoustics sound systems. In 2001, the park enlarged its equipment inventory for the Gallo-Roman Stadium show, delivering a high quality and invisible sound experience for the audience.

Won over by the quality of the dV-Dosc system used on the Gallo-Roman Stadium show, the Puy du Fou decided in 2002 to bring the same audio signature to the Cinescenie, one of the biggest permanent stages in the world (3 acres, 14,000 capacity audience per show) and asked its technical team to chose an L-Acoustics system that could be adapted to the geography (an outdoor show arena with a lake in the middle, several different stage locations, night shows, totally exposed to the elements, etc) and to the audio requirements (high intelligibility and predictable directivity, off-site noise pollution, etc). The sound engineers eventually

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UK - Le Mark has developed a new fire retardant gaffer tape. Manufactured from high quality, waterproof, vinyl-coated cloth tape, with a natural rubber based adhesive, it has a special flame retardant coating. Offering high tensile strength, it conforms to Ford specifications - ESB-M3G71-B and S95GG14K024CA.

On a separate note, Le Mark's custom printing division had an incredibly busy start to 2003. January saw the production, for the first time, of a uniquely complicated multi-text identification label system for the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Le Mark adapted its heavy-duty PAL Label identification system to meet the Philharmonic's requirement that every single piece of flight-cased equipment be uniquely named and identified with a reusable label. This required a total of 73 individual stencils to be produced and then screen printed.

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UK - Sennheiser UK's guidePORT Health & Fitness Partner, TrackTones Ltd, has won the Barclays Bank Award for Commercial Innovation 2003. The award was presented at the recent seventh annual London Innovation Awards ceremony at the British Library, to TrackTones inventor and managing director, Steve Parkin, by Minister of State for E-Commerce and Competitiveness, Stephen Timms MP, and Huw Evans, Barclays Bank Corporate Director of Technology, Media & Telecomms.

The invention, which earned Steve Parkin's company accreditation as Sennheiser's first guidePORT Health & Fitness Partner, incorporates the new Sennheiser guidePORT intelligent, wireless personal audio guide system in a product designed to enhance music delivery and improve performance benefits in health and fitness facilities.

TrackTones can provide up to 16 simultaneous high quality audio channels via the digital RF gu

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UK - Stephen Hall has been appointed as managing director of UK rental and installations company RG Jones as part of a major management restructure of its operations in Wimbledon. Hire department manager John Carroll and financial adviser Max Cohen have also joined the board of directors.

Owner and chairman Robin Jones says: "In this industry it's important that companies continually evolve. This restructure passes the running of the company over to the hands of a young, dynamic and very experienced team. Stephen is the ideal person to lead the team and take the company forward. I wish him and the team every success."

Stephen Hall commented: "It's very exciting to be given the opportunity to further develop one of the longest established sound companies in the industry. Having been in the industry for over 25 years and having an association with RG Jones for nea

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UK - Ignoring Arctic temperatures and driving blizzards, to say nothing of London Underground grinding to a halt, crowds packed out Leicester Square recently to catch a glimpse of the perfect couple of the moment, Hugh Grant and Sandra Bullock at the premiere of their slick romantic comedy, Two Weeks Notice. The couple, along with co-stars David Haig, and Alicia Witt, attended the glittering after-premiere party for 450 guests held at the Asia de Cuba restaurant in St Martins Lane hotel. The Sound Division Group's hire department provided the sound system and DJ services for the event.

The main system comprised two JBL SRX 4702 mid/top loudspeakers, two JBL SRX 4718 subs and a C-Audio Pulse amplifier rack, with a further four EV Sx300 loudspeakers as room fills. DJ Control was courtesy of two SL1210 turntables MkIII, an Allen & Heath mixer, a Denon 1800 CD player and a JB

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Finland - Genelec has launched a giant active subwoofer - ideal for large surround sound or stereo installations. Known as the 7073A, it features four 305mm (12") drivers, fast-acting, low distortion amplifiers, an incredible 124dB sound pressure output, 19Hz lower cut-off frequency, plus a full 6.1-capable bass management system - so it can easily handle the most demanding high SPL applications. Essentially the 7073A has twice the sound pressure output of Genelec's previous largest sub-woofer, the 7071A.

All the new subwoofer's electronics are fully integrated into the cabinet, including the active crossover filters, driver overload protection circuits and power amplifiers. The integrated bass management system with its six inputs and outputs (L/C/R front and L/C/R rear), plus LFE input and summed signal output connectors is very flexible. The dedicated LFE input (which ca

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UK - Entec Sound & Light supplied production co-ordination services and lighting and sound equipment for the UK and Irish leg of John Squire's hugely successful 'Time Changes Everything' tour. The tour has received much critical acclaim, and is the first time since Stone Roses' demise, that a former band member has performed much of the group's music publicly.

Despite the fact that many venues offered house sound and lighting systems, Steve Adj, John Squire's co-manager, and tour manager Martin Herbert, persuaded fellow manager Simon Moran to increase the budget, so that a consistent level of production could be ensured by means of a touring package. Entec won the contract and supplied Herbert with equipment and crew. The latter even included some Stone Roses stalwarts like Grub and Mouse from caterers Cat'n'Mouse, Stardes trucking and the unflappable Trapper as stage manager an

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UK - Gobo and projected effects specialists Projected Image, and sister company Projected Image Digital, joined forces recently to host a highly successful open day at their premises in Three Mills Island, East London.

The event attracted a broad cross-section of industry professionals. It's main objectives were to launch the new Version 4 software (available soon) for the RADlite visual manipulation system, also to highlight the new gobo manufacturing facilities offered following Projected Image's recent expansion and takeover of a second unit at Three Mills. There was lots of interest in the new gobo manufacturing laboratory, and guests were treated to a guided tour and a run-through of the precise science of gobo making. Projected Image also offered a sneak preview of the new Beacon Choice gobo catalogue, with Micke Tannemeyr, CEO and marketing director of the Swedish-based B

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UK - Edinburgh-based lighting specialists Tower Productions were called in to light a section of Castlehill in Edinburgh's historic Old Town during the Christmas period. The brief stipulated strictly no pea-lights and no flashing santas!The area presented a number of challenges, not least the height of the buildings, the pitch of the roofs, fixing consent from different parties and mains and control to all areas. Coupled with the road having to remain open, this meant some diligent cherry-picker work.

The final scheme involved 131 Par cans (dichroic filters fitted to those in inaccessible places), 22 Source Four profiles, 34 exterior birdies, 11 400W HQI floods, a pair of Studio Due City Colors and over 220m of rope light. The existing street lighting was gelled to reduce brightness, and the whole supplied by one 300A 3-phase mains supply with dimmers dotted around the rooftops!

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UK - Glasgow is the latest location for the development of McKenzie Group's Academy venue roll-out. Having taken over the 1920's art deco New Bedford Cinema just outside the city centre, they immediately committed £3 million to a conversion, which will see it fully operational by 26 March 2003 for the opening night with Deacon Blue.

To supply and implement the audio infrastructure, MKG's managing director, John Northcote, has again enlisted Shepperton Studios-based Marquee Audio, who first worked with the company on the conversion of Birmingham's Hummingbird to the Academy in Britain's second city two and a half years ago. The 2,500-capacity venue in Glasgow - purchased from Edinburgh-based development company EDI - will operate in three formats: as a full concert venue, a short hall arrangement and a full-on night club.

Marquee project managers, Spencer Brooks and Scott

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UK - Nocturne Productions & Vidicon are providing Barco high-performance display technology for Paul McCartney's 2003 'Back in the World' European Tour, which kicks off in France on March 25th. Nocturne and Vidicon are supplying approximately 149sq.m of Barco's LED video displays and 16 of its high brightness ELM Series DLP projectors for McCartney's World Tour in Europe. The Barco LED displays are located on both sides of the stage, each in a spectacular separate display. 16 Barco ELM R12 projectors are rear-projected, side-by-side, onto eight projection screens left and right of the stage. The configuration is used to show live image magnification and video playback during the show.

Following his successful North American tour, McCartney toured Mexico City and Japan for concerts in November. His 2003 European tour kicks off in France at the end of March, after which it proceed

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