UK - FBT UK has announced the launch of the JTS TC-22 replacement condenser capsule for professional wireless mic systems, offering "an unbeatable combination of sound quality and price".

Available in two models (one to fit JTS and Shure wireless systems, one to fit Sennheiser systems) the TC-22 offers a wide dynamic range and very low touch noise, making it suitable for stage applications where the highest quality reproduction is required, says the company. Delivering a condenser microphone's characteristic crystal clear mid and high response, it is a notable improvement over dynamic equivalents.

The TC-22 offers a frequency response of 50-18,000Hz and a sensitivity of -68

UK - Isolate by Flare Audio is a new, patent-pending ear protector, a solution for any music and events professional who works in loud sound environments. The ear protectors rival traditional foam or flanged ear plugs and are also ideal for home and other commercial uses, says the company.

Launching through crowd-funding site Kickstarter, worldwide call for the product has been proved with the campaign achieving its £25,000 target within 44 hours. Isolate is currently rated number one in the UK and number eight in the world on Kickstarter's project popularity list. The campaign runs until 15 August 2016.

Projected to achieve 1240% of its funding goal at time of press, Isolate's technology will now be available worldwide, with KS backers being able to secure pairs ahead of general release at an introductory price.

Traditional earplugs rely on absorption to attenua

USA - City Theatrical has announced the launch of a new RGBI QolorFlex LED tape developed for professional lighting designers who often need deeper blue accents, backgrounds, and shadings in set lighting. City Theatrical's RGBI LED tape alternates a 5050 RGB chip with a 450nm indigo chip, giving extra powerful, deep blue output.

The QolorFlex RGBI strip gives designers the blue that is typically found in an RGB or RGBX (RGB + Amber, RGB +White, etc.) strip, plus an additional even brighter and deeper indigo circuit.

Standard RGB LED chips contain one emitter each of red, green, and blue. In QolorFlex RGBI LED tape, the indigo chip contains three indigo emitters for extra powerful, bright, deep indigo output.

City Theatrical's RGBI QolorFlex LED tape was created for Tony Award winning lighting designer Ken Posner's upcoming Broadway show War Paint, which utilizes

UK - If you own an sE Reflexion Filter Pro, you can now purchase a hardware upgrade to simplify its ease of use, increase stability, and provide better overall performance and durability.

In 2006, sE Electronics released the original Reflexion Filter Pro and created a whole new market of portable acoustic treatment devices. Ten years and six different sE Reflexion Filter products later, the company has sold over 120,000 units worldwide. In May of this year, sE introduced a special 10th Anniversary Reflexion Filter Pro, limited to 1000 pieces worldwide. This commemorative RF Pro included completely redesigned mounting hardware, which has now been made commercially available due to popular demand.

The new Reflexion Filter Pro Mounting Bracket Upgrade Kit is now available for purchase through authorized sE distributors worldwide. Customers who have purchased a Reflexion Filte

USA - Kinesys automation customers have a new choice in chain hoists for their systems. After successful testing of several models, Total Structures is has announced that Pointman Electric Chain Hoists have been approved for use with the Elevation drive system.

Currently hoists are available in

USA - Elation Professional has announced the launch of the new Fuze Series of dynamic LED wash luminaires. Using single-lens RGBW COB LEDs for an extremely homogenized field of light and offering a wide palette of colours, Fuze Series lights are lighting solutions for "anywhere a wash of high-quality coloured light is required".

Available in moving head and IP65-rated PAR versions, single source RGBW colour mixing gives fully premixed colour looks and an extremely flat field of light. All Fuze Series fixtures offer useful design features including a wide zoom angle range for more precise beam control, full 100% electronic dimming, variable dimming curves and high-speed strobe. The Fuze PAR's feature an optional gel frame / barn door / snoot holder as well.

The IP65-rated Fuze PAR Z60 IP is a single source PAR luminaire featuring a 60W quad colour RGBW COB LED and 7° to

USA - With the introduction of the Ovation E-260WW, users no longer have to sacrifice brightness to enjoy the efficiency offered by LED technology. The new Ovation fixture has an output that exceeds that of an HPL 750W ellipsoidal, says Chauvet. Matching its brightness with efficiency, the new Ovation fixture also has a 50,000-hour LED source life to lower maintenance costs.

"The Ovation E-260WW represents a giant step forward in LED ellipsoidals," said Albert Chauvet, CEO of Chauvet. "It is brighter than any other LED ellipsoidal, greater than the output of the best 750W ellipsoidals. This makes it ideally suited to serve as a bright key light in theatrical applications, but it still offers all of the efficiency you expect from an LED fixture."

Aside from finding a ready market in theatres, the Ovation E-260WW will also be right at home in broadcast applications, because

Europe - Shure has announced that Microflex Advance Ceiling (MXA910) and Table (MXA310) Array microphones are now shipping. This portfolio of premium networked ceiling and table array microphones, audio interfaces, and control software for enhanced A/V conferencing integrate seamlessly into premium meeting space aesthetics, says the company.

With the ability to flush-mount the MXA910 alongside standard ceiling tiles, and the innovative new-to-the-world "toroid" polar pattern in the MXA310, these microphones offer a dynamic package of technologies to ensure a best-in-class audio experience. Microflex Advance also presents an enhanced evolution of the Company's industry-leading IntelliMix Digital Signal Processing Suite, including Steerable Coverage technology, enabling incredibly accurate control of audio capture in any location within a meeting space. Lastly, Microflex Advance

Europe - The DICENTIS Wireless Conference System is based on a Bosch Smart Wireless Management Software, which ensures interference-free and highly flexible wireless conferencing using standard Wi-Fi technology. This technology frees users from having to search for the best Wi-Fi channel by automatically switching to the strongest channel without interruption.

The newly released software version V1.3 offers rental companies or council technicians more comfort and peace of mind when configuring the DICENTIS Wireless Conference System. The system is even more stable and more robust, leading to less acoustic artefacts and improved channel switching.

It is now possible to assign and configure wireless access points (WAP) as primary or redundant, for improved meeting continuity. In case of an unforeseen infrastructural problem such as a power shortage, the redundant WAP will au

Canada - After more than a year and a half of extensive beta testing BlackTrax has released realtime motion tracking system version 2.0. BlackTrax 2.0 has the largest number of new features, GUI and workflow to date.

Marty Cochrane, BlackTrax product manager, explained, "A lot of these improvements were developed from customer suggestions, requests and general feedback. This includes better system reporting, real-time chapter programming and more control over fixtures during the calibration process."

The new fixture calibration mode improvements on the BlackTrax solution ensure faster calibration. Multi-person calibration enables several people with several different beacons to calibrate their own selection of lights. Color and gobo on the fixtures will automatically be cleared and BlackTrax will have control over zoom/iris. This will allow the user to jump in and start ca

USA - JBL Professional has announced the immediate availability of the new JBL HiQnet Performance Manager 2.1 software update, offering powerful new tools for measuring and tuning live sound reinforcement systems.

Performance Manager version 2.1 integrates Rational Acoustics' Smaart acoustic testing and measurement software directly into the Performance Manager workflow, providing audio technicians and engineers with unprecedented access to measurement information - all delivered over the network in real-time.

"We are pleased to collaborate with Rational Acoustics to integrate industry-leading Smaart technology directly within our software platform, which now includes extremely powerful measurement integration for seamless measuring and tuning operations," said George Georgallis, product manager, tour sound systems, Harman Professional Solutions.

"With version 2.1, rea

UK - Sound recordist Simon Bysshe and costumier Laura Smith have combined their knowledge and expertise to create URSA Straps, a range of low profile body worn straps designed to conceal radio microphone transmitters.

Officially launched this month and now available in the UK and Europe, URSA Straps are made from a specially developed bonded fabric that is ultra-slim and provides excellent stretch, comfort and breathability. Each strap incorporates a pouch to keep the transmitter locked in place and a cable pocket for managing excess microphone cable. URSA Straps are available in black, beige and brown skin tone colours and can be worn around the ankle, thigh or waist.

Bysshe and Smith developed URSA Straps after listening to numerous artists express discomfort while wearing radio mic straps. Traditional thick neoprene or elastic straps can irritate the skin, become soaked

UK - Yamaha Commercial Audio and Nexo will be demonstrating the seamless connectivity of their products at PLASA 2016, which takes place at London's Olympia from 18-20 September.

The jointly-hosted stand J10 features a unique, zoned design which showcases a range of scaled audio solutions - from the smallest room to the biggest stadium. A significant feature is a comprehensive Dante network, allowing staff to demonstrate the ease with which Yamaha and Nexo products can be seamlessly networked to provide complete, easily managed system solutions of any size.

The stand will feature a significant new Yamaha product, alongside the flagship RIVAGE PM10 and CL/QL series digital mixers, the Commercial installation Solutions (CIS) series of processors, mixers, amplifiers and loudspeakers, plus a range of input and output options.

Key Nexo products on show will include the ID S

USA - City Theatrical has announced the launch of a new group of high quality, constant voltage B-Series dimmers in a variety of capacities and configurations. All partner with City Theatrical QolorFlex professional quality LED tapes.

Users can select from either 8 or 16 bit dimming with 16 bit dimming giving extremely smooth low end dimming that will meet the needs of the most demanding designers. 16 bit dimming requires two channels of control per output. 8 bit dimming produces good dimming with only one channel of control per output.

LED tape users in the film world often are challenged to avoid flicker when using high speed cameras. This line of new dimmers features 30 user selectable PWM frequencies from 500Hz to 30kHz.

Ninety-nine built in user selectable dimming curves give the ability to match the dimming curve of other dimmers, or to tune the curve exactly to

UK - Elation Professional will bring its most impressive line-up of PLASA products ever to this year's Show at Olympia. Elation will have on hand at Stand C40 an unprecedented line-up of new cutting-edge innovations for entertainment lighting that includes the new Fuze Series of dynamic LED wash lights, ZCL Series of high-output LED effects, and DTW Series of variable white LED lights.

Also showing will be the new seven-colour Platinum Seven LED wash luminaire along with a cyclorama wash fixture, the TVL CYC RGBW, an ideal floodlight for theatre and broadcast applications. The Sniper Pro, an upgrade of Elation's award-winning Sniper 2R that features three times the power, will also feature as will the Protron 3K Colors, a high-power 40,000 lumen LED colour strobe.

Elation will also be showing the latest offering in its line of creative high-resolution LED display panels, t

UK - SGAudio Aps' has announced the launch of V2.6 software for its 10EaZy sound level measurement system, available via the 10EaZy website as well as its automatic update system.

For users of the full 10EaZy system (excludes RT and SW versions), the new software introduces a number of key new features. These include a measurement résumé in an e-mail body which makes it easy to review measurements at a glance, enabling the user to see if further investigation is needed. A sentence will state if a limit violation was recorded in the set measurement or not. Creating a mail rule that checks this sentence will make it easy to choose different actions for log files with and without limit violations

An 'at-a-glance' measurements summary will be attached to e-mail in the form of a PNG. This image file will have all the key metrics listed with their maximum values, a

USA - Bose is now shipping its new PowerShare adaptable power amplifier line, consisting of three 1U models: 2- and 4- channel fixed-install models (PS602 and PS604) and one 2-channel portable amplifier (PS602P). Each model delivers 600 watts of power that can be shared across all output channels.

With support for both low- and high-impedance loads up to 100V, PowerShare amplifiers adapt to a wide range of applications. Onboard configurable loudspeaker processing and direct access to zone controllers eliminate the need for an additional signal processor in many installations, while outstanding audio performance and reliability are assured with patented technologies inherited from the field-proven PowerMatch line, says the company.

Patented PowerShare technology allows installers to use total amplifier power in the application. This enables more flexibility during the initi

Europe - ETC's Eos family consoles have always provided powerful, customisable lighting control for any environment. With the recent v2.4 software release, that control becomes even more dynamic, with a fader-configuration overhaul and new display options.

Upgrades to the software's displays help programmers keep tabs on what's going on in the console - and what's going on in the console's tabs. Tabs now carry contextual labels. New configuration options also allow users to hide, show and re-order columns in the Playback Status Display (cue list) and more easily include informative notes on each cue.

The new software also introduces Scene Breaks, which can be added to cue lists to organise, navigate, and modify cues within specific segments of a production. Starting rehearsal from the top of Act II, Scene 3? No need to hunt for the cue number; Scene Break Direct Selects an

UK - Artistic Licence, inventor of Art-Net and expert in lighting control, is hosting a dedicated Art-Net stand at this year's PLASA London show. This exciting new initiative - entitled Art-Net 4 Zone (Stand R71) - is supported by PLASA and LSi and seeks to provide expert education and training on the use of Art-Net and related protocols.

Thanks to the support of similar-minded sponsor companies, Artistic's formidable expertise will be complemented by a wide range of technical experts who are giving their time to make the event a success. Among those already signed up are Wayne Howell & Fraser Connolly (Artistic Licence), Hamish Dumbreck (JESE), Peter Willis (Howard Eaton Lighting), Bob Goddard (Goddard Design Co.), Jon Hole (Eaton - Zero 88 Series), Geoff Archenhold (ISTL), Iain Ruxton (Speirs and Major), Tapio Rosenius & Gorka Cortazar (LDC). AV support is to be provided by

Europe - With the release of the new tarm two, the Laserworld Group set a significant landmark: This competitively priced laser system is designed for the professional market, and so are the specifications:

Together with the 45kpps @ 8° scanners and the ca. 3mm/0.8mrad beam, the guaranteed 2.5W power after aperture with a balance of 680mW/638nm, 750mW/520nm and 1.400mW/450nm make the tarm two suitable for professional to high professional applications.

Even at the maximum scan angle of 60° it does 30kpps. The compact, durable aluminium housing makes the tarm two suitable for fixed installations and mobile use alike. Night clubs, rental companies but also professional laser companies are customers for these laser systems.

The tarm two laser can be controlled via standard ILDA interface. Several optional upgrades are available on request.

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USA - Chauvet Professional is spreading rich vivid colours to more places. Following up on its popular Ovation E-910FC RGBA-Lime ellipsoidal, the company is raising the bar in colour wash and cyc lighting with the introduction of the first Ovation batten style fixtures. Like their ellipsoidal forbearer, the new Ovation B-2805FC and Ovation B-565FC battens feature an RGBA-Lime LED system that creates bolder, more vivid colours and brighter whites.

"Our original RGBA-Lime fixture met with a very enthusiastic reception, because it opened a whole new realm of colour mixing possibilities for designers," said Albert Chauvet, CEO of Chauvet. "The natural thing for us to do was extend this colour mixing capability from the ellipsoidal to the batten category. Our new Ovation battens offer the broadest palette you can find in a batten style fixture."

Aside from putting a rainbow of

Australia - The USB DI Plus is ARX's new 'second generation' USB DI, and the first with dual mode audio input interface - digital and analogue - two DIs in one.

"ARX released our first USB DI back in 2007 and the unit has become an industry standard for USB - analogue audio conversion," says ARX managing director, Colin Park.

"Recently, we've been looking at where and how ARX's USB DIs are being used, and concluded that along with USB enabled devices, some users also stored their audio playback material on tablet devices, phones and iPads which have no direct USB digital outputs, and that interfacing these devices outputs reliably with the professional world of balanced audio can be a problem.

"At ARX we concluded that our new second generation 'USB DI Plus' should offer users a 'one box - dual mode' solution to both their USB digital and analogue audio interface needs

USA - X-Laser has completely redesigned and re-engineered their most popular entry-level laser system, the Mobile Beat. The result is the all-new Mobile Beat Mirage. As X-Laser USA's ninth generation of the Mobile Beat, the Mobile Beat Mirage presents a versatile yet accessible system for creating sharp graphics and vividly colourful beam shows.

"We looked at the feedback we received from mobile entertainers using previous versions of the Mobile Beat, and took that into consideration when designing the Mirage," Adam Raugh, X-Laser's president, said. "Our product development team knocked it out of the park and jam-packed as many quality features and components into the Mirage as possible, while maintaining a sharp focus on keeping the unit affordable for anyone looking for a great 'starter' laser."

The components to which Raugh refers include precision 30K graphics scanners

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