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IBC Review range of projects that use T Series amplifiers. MC2 T Series amps are currently specified into installations ranging from the Madrid-based Iberojet Cruises Grand Celebration ship, to the Hyundai-Daimos and Rolling Hills Resort in Korea. www.mc2-audio.co.uk Meyer Sound’s self-powered UPQ2P narrow coverage loudspeaker debuted at Earls Court. The latest addition to the company’s UltraSeries family of loudspeakers, the UPQ-2P features “exceptionally high power output and low distortion, combined with its tightly focused beamwidth”, making it a suitable solution for small to mid-sized auditoriums, houses of worship, theatres, and nightclubs, offering flexible functionality as a stand-alone loudspeaker or as a part of an array. www.meyersound.com Neutrik showed the world’s first unisex XLR cable connector. “Whether mating to a female or male chassis connector, convertCON fits it. The gender is easily selectable without tools – conversion takes place by sliding the housing back and forth, meaning adapters are no longer required,” says Neutrik. The convertCON is also branded with Neutrik’s recently launched hologram, designed to help fight counterfeiting. www.neutrik.com Out Board featured the next generation evolution of its TiMax Audio Delay Matrix, TiMax2 SoundHub – a range of audio showcontrol and installation processors. In its ShowHub ‘S’ guise, the TiMax2 control software is configured specifically for programming and running shows and events, whilst the RoomHub ‘R’ version is optimised for more mainstream AV installations needing similar comprehensive audio processing resources, but with less focus on real-time showcontrol or audio animation. w w w. o u t b o a rd. co.uk RCF introduced a selection of new products. The NX series is a complete range of active loudspeakers. Designed for both for installation and touring, they are billed as “equally at home on stage or in a high energy club”. The ART7 Series is the latest version of the established ART active speaker range. Joining the Acustica range are the C8015 subwoofer and C4128 twoway reflex speakers. Both of these compact speakers are designed for clubs and small installations where space is at a premium. In RCF Commercial, the company is showing products from DXT 7000 Voice Alarm and Monitor Q Business Music. www.rcfaudio.com as well as exhibiting some of the existing V-Series loudspeaker range. www.tannoy.com There were four major digital console launches at the show – which made things very interesting. One was the Midas Pro, based on the flagship XL architecture but in a more compact package, starting at  input channels and  (+) discrete mix channels with a -fader input channel section and ten VCA fader section. Another was the new Soundcraft SI integrated digital console, with all I/O on the back, and no racks to reply on. The console takes advantage of the EMMA technology (single board console) and Vistonics control surface technology developed by Studer. Innovason showed its new Eclipse digital console, which sports a maximum of  inputs and  mix busses, tough with a  input/output capability, with five I/O racks. While we didn't have much information last month, the Digico SD was a prominent member of the quartet. The SD has a fixed architecture and employs a smaller Super FPGA than the SD, yet it benefits from all the major features and versatility of the DiGiCo D Series, plus the advances already made in the SD. The SD incorporates the Stealth Digital Processing, based on the single Super FPGA, and combined with Analogue Devices Tiger SHARCS, creates the Tiger SHARC FX engine. This provides audio quality, precision, and processing power with an extensive range of built-in reverbs, dynamics, output matrix, and more. www.digico.org Tannoy returned to the PLASA show after being absent for a couple of years. The company used the Earls’ Court event as the platform for a first UK demonstration of its latest proaudio product lines, VQ and QFlex, Norwegian theatre specialists TTA unveiled Stagetracker FX, the latest generation of its awardwinning Stagetracker performer tracking and audio localisation system Version 1 of Stagetracker was PLASA was the setting for the released in July 2007, landmark launch of the Mayor of and the system has London’s Green Theatre: Taking evolved swiftly and Action on Climate Change dynamically since initiative. that date. TTA has also Matthew Griffiths, CEO of recently been installed PLASA, said, “We’re very proud at the National Opera to be able to host the launch House in Oslo, at of the Mayor’s Green Theatre the Royal Danish Plan at PLASA. Many of the Theatre in Copenhagen, manufacturers represented and the Svenska Teater here on the show floor are in Helsinki. already playing an active role in www.tta-sound.com developing new equipment and technologies to help theatres Vieta Pro showed new achieve the goals set by the and improved control Mayor’s Plan, and the lighting software to extend an and sound industry still has a installer’s control over great contribution to make. a sound system con“PLASA and its members are structed from Vieta’s very keen to work with theatres Ti Line suite of DIN and other industry bodies, not rail-mounting prodonly to help improve the power ucts. Vieta-Net Control efficiency of lighting and sound (VNC) Software Version systems themselves, but also 2, which includes new to support and encourage the features, a better user adoption of the many small, interface and an easier common-sense, and practical automatic set-up, allows steps which together will make a two-way communicaa huge contribution to reducing tion between a variety the theatre industry’s carbon of local control options emissions.” and a PC-based master www.plasa.org control of the media player and amplifiers, which can be connected directly, connected via a wireless network, or connected remotely using the internet. www.vietapro.com AUDIO MEDIA OCTOBER 2008 63 http://www.tannoy.com http://www.outboard.co.uk http://www.outboard.co.uk http://www.mc2-audio.co.uk http://www.meyersound.com http://www.tta-sound.com http://www.neutrik.com http://www.rcfaudio.com http://www.plasa.org http://www.digico.org http://www.vietapro.com

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