The Netherlands - Bringing its next-generation Audio over IP technology to large-scale retail, hospitality and corporate music applications, Barix will unveil its new Retail Player solution on stand 8-K255 at the upcoming ISE 2018 show. The company’s newest multi-channel background music streaming solution, the future-friendly Retail Player system combines robust hardware endpoints with an intuitive, web-based management portal while defining a cost-effective new price point for deployments spanning large numbers of sites. “For customers wanting to deliver streaming background music and messages across a high number of locations, budget restrictions and price sensitivity have often led them to use consumer-grade players that lack the reliability and usability of dedicated solutions,” said Reto Brader, vice president of sales and marketing, Barix. “Our new Retail Pla
The Netherlands - At ISE 2018 Stand 7.P-200, German manufacturer Lawo will focus on its IP-based signal processing and control solutions, namely the Power Core Audio Processor, the VisTool GUI Builder and the VSM control and monitoring solution. The Power Core is a networked 19”/1RU Audio Processing Unit with unprecedented processing capacity providing 96 fully equipped DSP channels, 80 summing busses and a 1,920x1,920 routing matrix. The eight rear side slots accept any variety of IO cards for Mic, Line, AES, MADI and headphone interfaces in addition the unit’s IP and MADI connectivity. Besides standard audio processing like dynamics and EQs, Power Core also features advanced audio assist systems like one-touch AutoGain and 32 instances of AutoMix for automatically maintaining the balance of open mics. The included touch-screen software VisTool allows for routing
The Netherlands - Elation Professional is taking momentum from a very successful 2017 to the ISE show in Amsterdam with a number of cutting-edge products set to inspire at Stand 12-F50. From Elation’s award-winning Artiste series of creative, full-featured moving heads comes the Artiste Picasso, an innovative and inspirational theatrical-grade luminaire that connects art to engineering. The Artiste Picasso is a rare combination of brightness and features in an LED light. One of the brightest and most feature-rich profile LED lighting fixtures on the market today, it is a high-output (22,000 lumens), feature-packed (zoom, framing, CMY, CTO, gobo wheels, animation, prisms, frost and more) yet compact profile light featuring a new high-power 600W Cool White LED engine. Making its European debut at ISE will be the Smarty Hybrid, a full featured spot, beam and wash fixtur
Europe - Cross 3 is a new high-performance cable protection product launched by Penn Elcom. Described as tough, durable and fire-retardant, the product is suitable for festivals, concerts, shows, events or exhibitions. Cross 3, the first product in this new series, was revealed to the public earlier this week at the CUE 2018 expo in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. It’s a three channel ‘crossover’ product manufactured from Thermoplastic Polyurethane (TPU), chosen for its strength, high resistance to abrasion, flexibility and recyclability. All elements of the Cross 3 product - top and base - are fire retardant and compliant to DIN EN 13501-1. Penn Elcom has been developing Cross 3 over the last year based on extensive research and communication related to event industry demands for portable cable protection. (Jim Evans)
USA - ADJ is set to introduce eight new products at NAMM. Those are: a moving head wash, a blinder, a ‘dim-to-warm’ pinspot, an illuminated lighting stand, two all white housing fixtures, a POW-R BAR and a new addition to the American Audio range of wireless mics. Expanding the Vizi Series of professional-calibre moving heads, the new Vizi Wash Pro is ADJ’s most powerful wash fixture to date. Powered by 19 x 30W RGBW Osram LEDs and boasting motorized zoom that offers a beam angle of between 5 and 50 degrees, “this potent fixture is equally suited to tight mid-air beam effects as it is to far-reaching wash lighting”. The Encore Burst 200 will also be showcased for the first time at this year’s NAMM. This innovative new addition to ADJ’s Encore Series of professional stage lighting fixtures is a dual blinder unit featuring high intensity 110W COB warm white
USA - NAMM 2018 marks the introduction of GigaCore 10, the first truss-adaptable switch in the GigaCore family. The 19-inch half unit can be mounted in truss, on a wall or in a single or double rack. In addition to the GigaCore 10 introduction, Luminex will be presenting the new GigaCore v2.6.1 firmware bringing some major improvements on PTP, PoE management and network monitoring. With the constant growth of Audio over IP solutions, Luminex has enhanced the performance of the Precision Time Protocol handling, especially with applications running AES67. PoE handling now offers advanced power management settings allowing users to select between class-based consumption and class based allocation providing even more flexibility when connecting PoE devices such as cameras or PoE loudspeakers. “The recent expansion of Winter NAMM gives us the perfect venue to introduce so
The Netherlands - Cadac will launch its MegaCOMMS platform at ISE. MegaCOMMS enables mixing, control and networking of multi-channel studio quality audio, across networks of up to 3072 channels of time-aligned, phase-coherent audio, at distances of up to two kilometres. MegaCOMMS’ ‘total through-system propagation delay’ - from on-stage inputs to outputs (including all console processing, A-D / D-A conversions and three stage internal latency management) - is less than 400 microseconds (millionths of a second). Additionally, the MegaCOMMS protocol synchronizes all audio samples before summing, for absolute phase coherency at every output. At the heart of the MegaCOMMS network is the software programmable CDC MC Router. The 2U 12 port MegaCOMMS router is a powerful tool for creating large, resilient networked audio systems, comprising up to 12 separate MegaCOMMS d
The Netherlands - ARX Systems is adding to its range of Dante enabled products with the release of the new NetSplit Audio Distribution Splitter on their Booth Number 6 - E160 at ISE 2018 next month in Amsterdam. The new NetSplit Dante Digital-to-Analogue Distribution Splitter extracts audio from the Dante protocol network and converts it to studio-quality, transformer-isolated, low-latency analogue audio suitable for connection to multiple amplifiers, powered loudspeaker arrays, mixing consoles and other analogue audio devices using standard Ethernet hardware and cabling. Extending operating flexibility, the NetSplit can be operated in either of two input modes, Dante or analogue. In Dante Mode, it will extract two channels of digital audio from the network via a RJ45 Ethernet input, and split them to two channels of 1:4 splitter/distribution amplifier. In Analogue Mod
USA - sE Electronics has announced the RNT, a premium large-diaphragm multi-pattern tube condenser microphone created in collaboration with Rupert Neve Designs. “All in all, the RNT brings the larger-than-life sounds of classic tube mics into the modern age with greater depth and clarity than ever before.” The RNT is the third microphone in the collaboration between sE Electronics and Rupert Neve Designs, founded by audio designer Mr. Rupert Neve. From sE: “Much like the RNR1 Active Ribbon and RN17 Small-Diaphragm Condenser, the RNT is something truly special, developed over several years of careful listening and measurement by Mr. Rupert Neve, Mr. Siwei Zou, and the engineering teams from both companies. “The partnership between sE Electronics and Rupert Neve Designs is an extension of the great friendship between the two founders. This elegantly different tub
USA - Funktion-One is marking its debut appearance at The NAMM Show with the launch of a new bass enclosure - the F124. Building on design-thinking first utilised for Funktion-One’s powerful F132 horn-loaded bass, the new F124 “takes the company’s bass loading and driver technology to a new level”. Funktion-One co-founder Tony Andrews says that the new enclosure marks the next logical step in bass speaker development: “With the 32-inch F132, we introduced something unique to the market: transient in the sub frequencies, as far down as 25Hz. From there, we felt there was potential to go further by using the knowledge we’d gained when developing the F132 to create a 24-inch bass speaker.” By re-visiting a 24-inch frame and tooling they had developed during a previous R&D phase, the basis of the new enclosure quickly fell into place. To create th
The Netherlands - The CRMSC-SRHV reference surround is a 2-way passive-filtered full range loudspeaker, designed to meet all requirements of current and future immersive surround sound formats for studios, screening rooms and high-end residential cinemas. Featuring the patented Alcons pro-ribbon driver technology, the CRMSC-SRHV surround combines” an exceptional clarity and intelligibility with an unusually high dynamic range, offering the most realistic sound reproduction possible”. The CRMSC-SRHV system consists of one RBN202 pro-ribbon driver for HF and a vented 6.5" mid-bass for LF reproduction. The CRMSC-SRHV HF section has an 500 W peak power input, enabling a 1:16 dynamic range with up to 90% less distortion from 1 kHz to beyond 20 kHz. The CRMSC-SRHV is designed as matching (height layer) surround system for the CRMSC system: By utilizing identical M
UK - Tourflex Cabling is showcasing products from its extensive range of specialist cable assembly solutions, at PLASA Focus Glasgow 2018 this week. Visit stand C2 to see their comprehensive display of power, signal & multicore cable assembly options used by rental and production companies, venues and installers in the live touring, theatre, events, architainment, architectural and film and TV industries. The brand's cabling solutions are also being used on the adjacent A.C. Entertainment Technologies stand to provide power, signal & multicore for all lighting, rigging, audio & video equipment showcased. Tourflex Cabling recently launched a new website to showcase the thousands of options available, and has invested heavily in testing equipment so that every cable assembly manufactured in-house conforms to the high build quality customers re
USA - Powersoft has announced that it will participate in this year’s NAMM convention in Anaheim, California for the first time since its inaugural appearance 13 years ago. Powersoft arrives at the 2018 NAMM show on the heels of significant gains in market share in 2017 around the globe. In addition to showcasing its range of amplification products, Powersoft will host training sessions at its booth and offer discount coupons for participants as part of a new marketing initiative with Rational Acoustics, makers of Smaart measurement software. In the interest of helping its growing roster of international users take full advantage of their Powersoft products, the Powersoft NAMM booth will play host to three daily demonstrations focusing on the latest features packed into the newly updated Armonía Pro Audio Suite version 2.11. The demos, taking place each day of the c
The Netherlands - Atlona is set to unveil its next generation of compact, affordable and energy-efficient amplifiers in the Atlona stand (5-U80) at ISE 2018 next month. Available in three models, the new Gain Series of Energy Star qualified power amplifiers provide custom installers and commercial AV integrators with flexible options for speaker amplification. All three models – the Gain 60 (AT-GAIN-60), Gain 120 (AT-GAIN-120) and Gain 120NET (AT-GAIN-120NET) – offer low- and high-impedance outputs, RS-232 and Ethernet control, front panel metering and convection cooling. The availability of dual-impedance operation is significant as integrators and designers can manage a simplified inventory, or quickly specify the proper amplifier optimized for either program speakers or distributed speaker systems. “The Gain Series is designed to give our installers seve
USA - Elation Professional has introduced three new lighting control products designed to ease communication, optimise functionality and increase compatibility of intelligent lighting systems. The 4CAST DMX Bridge is a compact four-universe wireless device which seamlessly bridges WiFi, Art-Net, sACN, and E-FLY (Elation’s wireless DMX solution) signals to wirelessly control compatible DMX devices, a solution for small production events, nightclubs, bars or any event or venue which requires hidden data cables. The eNode2 POE is a compact two-universe Ethernet-DMX node powered over Ethernet (POE) that supports Art-Net compatible DMX control systems utilizing a single RJ45 auto-switching 10/100Mbps Neutrik etherCON input and two multi-configuration 5pin Neutrik DMX data outputs. Features include DMX bilateral conversion support, a 4-button control panel, an OLED system
The Netherlands - ETC will showcase a selection of its versatile and scalable architectural lighting control solutions at ISE 2018. Stand 15-R260 will be dedicated to a collection of reliable, well-supported and easy-to-maintain architectural systems from ETC – designed to suit installations of all sizes and budgets – from a single room to office complexes, large museums, convention centres and entire theme parks. Designed as a new way of thinking about building control, ETC’s visionary Unison Paradigm system fuses architectural lighting control advances with entertainment lighting control technology. Making its debut at ISE, Paradigm version 4.0 boasts several additional features, including energy management monitoring and display, colour control support for conversion to RGBA and RGBW, and comprehensive Paradigm Inspire support in LightDesigner. The Uni
Spain - D.A.S. Audio has expanded the successful Event series of line arrays and bass systems with two new powered models, the Event-212A line array and the Event-121A subwoofer. The new products are aimed at providing Event Series users with the tools needed to handle an even a wider range of applications. The D.A.S. Event-212A is a powered, 3-way line array which employs two D.A.S. 12-inch loudspeakers in a dual band configuration where each speaker operates in a specific frequency range. The D.A.S. loudspeaker units have been teamed up with a single M-75 compression driver and purpose-designed injected aluminium high frequency waveguide to provide “unmatched performance, sensitivity and coverage in both the 90º and 120º formats offered”. Along with the new line array, D.A.S. launches the Event-121A, a direct radiating rear-loaded powered subwoofer system which
Germany - MA Lighting is set to launch grandMA3. Founded on the legacy of the previous grandMA consoles, the grandMA3 represents “a radical re-think of what’s possible from a lighting control platform” says the company. The elegant new system-architecture incorporates new fixture, feature and effects-handling at its very heart. The system features “ground-breaking concepts from top industry visionaries”, presented within a refined user interface, and is designed to make practical tasks more intuitive. The physical design detail of the grandMA3 range is “extraordinary and focused on delivering the best possible user experience, now and into the future”. The grandMA3 full-size and light models feature huge multi-touch screen surface area; All dedicated encoder and playback information is accessed directly on the letterbox screens allowing the larger s
USA - Linea Research amplifier and DSP specialist will be making its first NAMM Show appearance at this year’s event in Anaheim. “We’re very pleased the NAMM Show has expanded to encompass more pro-audio,” comments Rik Kirby of Linea Research USA. “It’s a great way to kick the year off and meet with so many of our reps and business partners, and to launch our new FIR capable amplifiers.” On display will be Linea Research’s range of four and eight channel networked DSP amplifiers, the portable and touring focused M Series and the installation and contractor C Series. Both series offer models with power ratings from 400W to 5,000W per channel, all with 96kHz DSP and optional Dante networked audio. New for 2018 Linea Research is introducing FIR capable versions of its amplifiers allowing users to import loudspeaker manufacturer “greybox” FIR set
UK - City Theatrical has reduced the price for the student license of its Moving Light Assistant software. The application can be used from the pre-production phase for planning and designing the moving light rig to producing the final documentation of the programming. The student license enables all features of the application for a period of three years from purchase and can be installed and activated on two computers. The application is now available in Europe for £20 or in the Americas, Asia and the Middle East for $25. “Moving Light Assistant is being used for many large-scale repertory theatres for managing the moving light focuses of their productions,” said Andrew Voller, creator and developer of Moving Light Assistant and freelance lighting designer. “Lowering the Student Licence pricing is aimed at allowing students easy access to learn and use this softwar
The Netherlands - Cloud Electronics will present Cloud CV8125, the first in a series of new digital amplifiers. The new Cloud CV8125 Digital Class-D multi-channel amplifier provides 125W output per channel across eight channels, plus two additional configurable aux channels offering feature-rich functionality and class-leading performance for commercial audio installers and users. Designed for use in retail, leisure, hospitality, commercial, industrial and other demanding applications, the new Cloud CV amplifiers utilise energy efficient switch-mode power supplies for improved performance in a compact size, allowing the new CV digital amplifiers to meet stringent Energy Star Compliancy ratings. A host of user and advanced user functionality includes comprehensive on-board digital signal processing, assignable 1450ms audio delay and load-testing / reporting ability. Re
The Netherlands - ASL, UK manufacturer of public address, voice alarm, commercial audio and control system products, will be showcasing the VIPEDIA-PRO range of EN54 PAVA equipment with Dante and the INTEGRA all-in-one public address/voice alarm system at the ISE. VIPEDIA-PRO uses the Brooklyn Dante implementation from Audinate to bring together strands of EN54 and Pro-Audio performance via Dante. By enabling Dante within an EN54 environment, ASL offers solutions to large-scale projects whereby an EN54 core solution is enhanced through the inclusion of pro-audio processing, control and advanced mixing, with secure transmission and fault tolerance. INTEGRA , a wall-mounted member of the VIPEDIA product family, forms a single-box, EN54 compliant public address and voice alarm system. Sleek and uncluttered, INTEGRA is designed with a modular approach and builds upon the p
UK - Ambersphere Solutions is gearing up to welcome visitors to PLASA Focus at Glasgow’s SECC. At Stand C1, the team will be on hand to discuss and demonstrate a selection of new products from the premier manufacturers Ambersphere is proud to represent. Ayrton’s new LED Ghibli spot fixture received its worldwide debut on the Ambersphere Stand at PLASA London 2017, with the fixture now shipping it is already getting people excited about just how much is in one light. Featuring a huge even output as well as a rich feature set, lighting designers have asked for. PLASA Focus Glasgow will give you a chance to get hands on and see for yourself what all the talk is about. Clay Paky are about to break the myth of bigger is better with the launch of the Axcor 300 range. Showing for the first time at a UK show will be the Axcor 300 Spot and Beam. These two LED fixtures brin
USA - Schertler S.A, Swiss manufacturer of acoustic amplification systems, will launch its new Arthur Prime compact mixer series at the 2018 NAMM Show. Specially designed for smaller-scale live performance and recording applications, Prime mixers will initially be available in fixed 5-, 9- and 13-channel configurations. Each compact, competitively-priced model uses technology from Schertler’s flagship Arthur (Format 48) mixer, including the same No Negative Feedback (NFB) structure for fast response and natural attack, the same hi-voltage (48V) power supply for superior headroom and the same high-quality preamps on input channels. Added to this are two aux sends, a built-in digital reverb, stereo inputs (1/4” balanced inputs with Pan) that can be used as either 2x Mono or a single Stereo In and other essential features for straightforward, high-quality sound produc
