Tiësto, arguably the greatest DJ of the decade, recently headlined the exclusive EDM Copenhagen electronic festival, presented by Arive on the terrace of the luxurious Stay Apartment Hotel in the Danish capital. Meanwhile, SGM’s G-Spot, the world’s first IP65-rated LED moving head, created its own spotlight as the headline lighting fixture.

For this nine-hour event (running from afternoon to midnight), packed with a strong lineup of DJs and live acts, production manager and show designer Christian Byriel from CeeBRIGHTER had some specific venue challenges to overcome. “Though being challenged with large window façades, an unusual location and an outdoor venue from daylight to dusk, I feel I achieved my vision and maintained the aesthetic look required by the customer,” he says. It became apparent to him that the G-Spot was to play a large role in his achievement.

For his design, Byriel deployed 20 G-Spot LED moving lights to produce a powerful effect, expanding the stage area to embrace the audiences. “All 20 lamps performed beyond comparison and were the perfect choice for this event. The entire production team was deeply impressed with the bright light output and so were the guests,” states Byriel, in appreciation of a fixture sufficiently bright to create a striking impact for this high-class hotel both in daylight as well as darkness.

With barely eight hours to prepare from get-in until show-start, everything needed to be programmed and reliable in operation.

“I felt safe knowing that should the weather turn for the worse, I would have no problems as the G-Spot is IP65 rated. This is crucial for this kind of production. There was absolutely no space nor time for makeshift dome solutions, but I did not have to worry about this at all.”

Besides this obvious benefit, the production manager was especially astonished by the fixture’s speed of colour change and its intensity. Also, the G-Spot played a major role in driving down the total power consumption to a minimum. “I will definitely spec the G-Spot units for upcoming events – and for next year’s Arive. We had high expectations for the G-Spot, but it exceeded them in all areas,” he concluded.

Tiësto came on stage at 10pm, giving his audience of 1,800 dedicated fans a two-hour unique intimate experience of trance-electronic breaks … accompanied by the G-Spot lightshow. 

Elevation Church, based in Matthews, North Carolina, added Clay Paky A.leda B-EYE K20 LED-based moving lights to the extensive roster of AV equipment it used for a series of Easter worship experiences this year. 
Main Light Industries, Inc. in Wilmington, Delaware supplied Elevation Church with 35 B-EYEs for the Easter worship experiences, five for its primary broadcast location and 30 shared among nine other satellite locations.

“We place great importance on excellence in production,” says Andy Bentley, lighting designer for Elevation Church and one of the technical directors.  “Three of our locations are permanent facilities with AV and lighting gear installed.  The other seven have portable rigs that are set up and torn down every Sunday.”

The Easter worship experience featured seven different elements: four worship songs, an opener, a closer and sermon, each of which were programmed to have a different look.  Bentley and a team of Elevation volunteers mounted the B-EYEs on the upstage truss; in addition, nine Clay Paky Alpha Spot HPE 1500s were positioned on the deck upstage. 

“The B-EYEs had the same, consistent look at every campus,” says Bentley.  “I programmed everything a week before Easter at our broadcast location, then used that as a template for everything else which helped reduce the amount of programming time at the other locations.”

The versatile B-EYEs quickly became his “favorite fixture,” he reports.  “They were incredible.  We used the ability to control the color of every LED to get some really interesting color palettes, including a patterned, stained-glass look that played off the theme of the sermon.” 

Bentley also used the beam shaper to “create some really great, big looks with just a few fixtures.”  He particularly liked “the ability of the beam shaper to animate, creating a very angelic, wing-flapping look, which we used in one of our worship songs,” he says. 

The wash functions of the B-EYEs also came in handy.  “The wash creates an awesome color and, compared to other fixtures I’ve seen, the evenness of the wash is the best,” he notes. Bentley also praised the performance of the Alpha Spot HPE 1500.  “They were great, and I plan on using them again in the near future.”
Main Light came in for kudos, too.  “They’re awesome.  They go above and beyond every time to make sure we’re taken care of.  We do a lot of events with them and love working with their team,” Bentley says.

Francesco Romagnoli, Clay Paky Area Manager for North and Latin America, commented, “It’s great to see our B-EYEs  used in so many markets and I’m pleased that Elevation Church was able to get such a great bang from them for their Easter worship.”

A.C.T Lighting is the exclusive North American distributor for Clay Paky.

Contact : http://www.actlighting.com/

The Belgium company ArKaos PRO will show its complete range of media servers at Prolight & Sound 2014, comprising the Stage, Studio and Stadium servers, offering up to two-, four- and six-outputs respectively. Arkaos will also show MediaMaster 4.0, the latest version of ArKaos PRO’s media server software, and LedMaster, a solution delivring led show controlin conjuction with Arkaos Kling-Net protocole.

Newly presented at Prolight + Sound is MediaMaster 4.0, the latest and ever-more powerful version of ArKaos PRO’s media server software.  MediaMaster 4.0 brings more flexible protection via an optional dongle and many additional features, yet retains the simplicity of operation familiar to its users.

A completely redesigned licensing system allows the user to register and deregister any machine remotely from their own account so MediaMaster 4.0 is not restricted to use on only one machine.

MediaMaster 4.0’s long list of new features includes new aspect ratio and cropping tools, new Hue, Saturation and Lightness tools, layer-based volume control and a redesigned interface.

The addition of a new Video Optimizer and Video Mapper means visuals can all be corrected, blended and mapped within the same application. The Video Optimizer makes wrongly-used codecs or bad settings during re-encoding a thing of the past as it automatically re-encodes all visuals to mpeg format, even up to 4k and 8k files. The new Video Mapper offers integrated Geometrical Correct and Edge Blending functions to enhance the professional appearance of the final output.

Also new for the show is LEDMaster, an all-in-one solution delivering LEDshow control in three easy steps. Just map, programme and playback. LEDMaster’s simplicity brings fast and easy control of LED light shows within the reach of everyone.

Designed to work in conjunction with ArKaos PRO’s Kling-Net protocol, LEDMaster automatically recognises and configures any Kling-Net LED device to make it ready for mapping. Through Kling-Net, the device’s resolution and pixel format is sent to the LEDMaster which is then able to read and change parameters.

Scenes can be created by importing visuals from the user’s own library, or with the new innovative Live Pattern Generator. This new function creates hard-edged visuals based on video frames mapped by the user onto the LEDMaster’s display.

The Timeline based function gives the choice of pre-programming or live running of the show. Scenes can be triggered live, automatically, random or sequentially, while the Easy Beat Detection feature ensures every look will be unique with no repetition throughout the show.

Contact: www.arkaospro.com

To see these products in action, visit the ArKaos PRO stand (Hall 11.0, Stand B50) at Prolight + Sound, Frankfurt (12-15 March, 2014) 

WildBeam™R is a spectacular new addition to the Ayrton line. It couples seven individually controlled 15W RGBW LED emitters with brand new, 67mm collimators – a world-première combination – to create an astonishingly powerful, compact luminaire with a sharp 4.5° beam.

Using less than 130W, including pan and tilt motors, WildBeam’s optical output produces a 2,500 lumen shaft of light and hits a record-breaking 90% efficiency.

WildBeam™R’s light engine is composed of seven 15W Osram Ostar RGBW LED emitters, which can be individually controlled to project a multitude of dynamic colour effects in space and to animate the beam around a central point. Crisp delineation of the individual component beams remains perfectly distinct at all times.
What’s more, advanced 3-phase stepper motors make WildBeam capable of snappy, dynamic moves. All these features are available in a single unit at a great price, so ‘less’ really does mean ‘more’! 

WildBeam™R features :

• Beam aperture: 4.5°
• High efficiency 67 mm PMMA optics (world premiere !)
• 7 Multi-Chip 15W RGBW LED sources
• Power consumption 130W max
• Controllable via DMX and RDM
• PowerCon True 1 In/Out
• DMX via XLR 5 In/Out
• 90% optical efficiency

Contact :

Prolight + Sound, Messe Frankfurt, 12-15 March, Hall 9.0 Booth E70
Web: www.ayrton.eu  

Elation is a leader in the use of energy-efficient Platinum lamp technology and will be showcasing three new luminaires in the Platinum range of professional moving heads including the Platinum Wash 16R Pro, a flexible feature-packed luminaire that has use as both a wash and beam; the Platinum Profile 35 Pro, a full-featured fixture with internal framing; and the Rayzor Beam 2R, a small and speedy fixture powerful enough to work alongside larger luminaires.

As an acknowledged innovator in LED lighting, Elation will also have on display the Satura Spot LED Pro moving head featuring a 300W LED engine that is as bright as a traditional 575W discharge fixture. 

Platinum Wash 16R Pro

Platinum Wash 16R Pro
Featuring the new 1,500-hour Platinum MSD 16R lamp from Philips (330W, 16,000 lumens), this versatile moving head functions as both a beam and wash luminaire. It is loaded with features such as CMY color mixing plus fixed colors, 6.5-48° motorized zoom, beam shaper, shutter/dimmer and has an EWDMX receiver built in. Compact yet powerful, output is comparable to 1,000 watt units but in a smaller, more energy efficient design.

Platinum Profile 35 Pro

Platinum Profile 35 Pro
The Platinum Profile 35 Pro is a full-featured professional lighting fixture with flexible framing system. Powered by the new Platinum 35 MSR lamp from Philips (800W), this moving head profile features a rotating 4-blade framing system that allows for full control of the beam shape and delivers an output comparable to 1,200-watt moving head profile MSR fixtures. Features include a high-quality optical system, 8°-50° motorized zoom, CMY color mixing with variable CTO, color wheel, two gobo wheels plus 160° animation effect and more.

Rayzor Beam 2R

Rayzor Beam 2R
This small, fast and precise moving head features the Platinum MSD 2R 132W lamp yet is powerful enough to work alongside larger fixtures. It houses static colors and gobos, as well as a rotating prism and shutter/dimmer. With an average lamp life of 6,000 hours in an energy efficient package, it is ideal for both installations and productions.

Satura Spot LED Pro

Satura Spot LED Pro
The 300W Satura Spot LED Pro moving head is as bright as a traditional 575W discharge fixture yet consumes half as much energy and its long-life LED RGBW engine lasts on average 80 times longer than a 575W discharge source.
A viable replacement option for conventional discharge spot fixtures, its crisp beam, full spectrum of saturated colors, graphics options and extremely flat field of light place it in a league with the best spot fixtures on the market.

Other featured products will include the popular Cuepix range of LED blinders and strip lights; the TVL F1 Series of warm or cool white LED Fresnels; and the DW Series of dynamic white LED luminaires. Elation’s comprehensive line of professional products also includes LED video display solutions, lighting control systems and much more.

Cuepix Blinder

DW Fresnel

Elation also invites you to improve your knowledge of Elation lights and get even more involved by attending Elation Pro Service and Pro Theme days to be held in May and June. Keep an eye on the Elation Europe Facebook site for details. See you at Stand D68 Hall 11 – March 12-15!

• May 6:  Pro Service Day (Beginner)
• May 7:  Pro Service Day (Advanced)
• June 4:  Pro Theme Day

For more information, contact : www.elationlighting.eu

Lime, the newest addition to the widely renowned Luxeon colour portfolio of LEDs from Philips Lumileds, enables lighting designers to take the next step in delivering the highest quality, tunable white light in bulbs and fixtures.

Luxeon Rebel ES Lime is the proprietary LED technology in the revolutionary Philips hue bulb, where it combines with Luxeon Rebel Red-Orange and Rebel Royal Blue emitters to deliver over 16m colour options all controlled from an iOS device. Philips hue can use colour tunable Light Recipes to help set mood and energy level in the home, office, retail, classroom and hospital environments.

“This really represents a new frontier in lighting, because Luxeon Rebel ES Lime emitters can be combined with other Rebel colour and white emitters to achieve higher CRI and R9 combinations than any previous generation emitters or arrays,” said Rahul Bammi, VP of product management.

Lime is the highest efficacy Luxeon LED manufactured to date. Therefore it enables highly efficient colour mixing by providing a convenient above-blackbody colour point with optimal standalone efficiency of 200 lm/W at 350 mA and 85°C.

The spectral output of Lime is closely aligned with the wavelength that human eye cones are most sensitive to, 555 nm.”We are finding that all our customers are very interested in Lime due to the outstanding efficiency and flux it brings to every lighting application,” said Bammi.

In addition, the Lime technology is offered in the Luxeon Z format, an undomed, 2.2 mm2 LED that is 75% smaller than most high power LEDs.

Robe Lighting s.r.o., the Czech based entertainment lighting multi-national announces the acquisition of the complete range of LiteWare portable battery LED products from UK company Global Design Solutions (GDS).

With immediate effect the sales, marketing, manufacture and support for this award winning range will be transferred to Robe, and be available through both the company’s subsidiary offices and extensive global distributor network.

Robe CEO Josef Valchar comments, “We had planned on entering the battery LED market for some time, so when the opportunity to acquire the market leading brand came along  … the die was cast!” 

“GDS has done a great job in establishing the product range and I know we can develop it further and add to the global sales through our network.

It’s also great to instigate this at a time that fits in with the huge growth that GDS is experiencing with their own core market products.”

The complete LiteWare range will be highlighted on Robe’s booth – B51 in Hall 11 at the upcoming Prolight+Sound exhibition in Frankfurt.

GDS M.D. Matt Lloyd says, “As GDS continues to grow internationally with other innovative products, the company is investing in the ongoing development of the award winning Arc system and other products that are predominantly project based.” 
“The LiteWare brand has been extremely successful for GDS and Robe taking it on will ensure its continued success and future development”.

For more informations : www.robe.cz

Prolight + Sound 2014 will prove no exception as Ayrton chooses the show as a forum to launch three new products. The first of these products is NandoBeam™S6, twice as powerful as its little brother, NandoBeam S3.
It will be on show on the Ayrton stand, Hall 9.0, Booth E70. 

Ayrton NandoBeam S6 is a very compact, ultra-fast moving head. Equipped with 37 RGBW LED emitters, NandoBeam S6 shares the S3’s same lightweight optical system and ultra fast 5:1 zoom.
Designed primarily for use on concert stages and in television production, NandoBeam S6 exhibits quick, dynamic movement along with Ayrton’s fabulous saturated colour palette and a powerful 8° to 40° beam spread.

The optical system is the result of a long development and is composed of a single polycarbonate front lens, the lighter design of which not only bears essential optical benefits, but allows NandoBeam to be faster than many more compacts projectors!.

Ayrton NandoBeam™S6 offers plenty of visual effects, with 37 embedded Osram Ostar RGBW LED emitters, arranged in four “crowns” and independently controlled in semi-ring sections of six emitters.
Heat management is handled via a second-generation active heat-pipe cooling system.

NandoBeam™S6 is controllable via DMX, RDM and Art-Net and benefits from the rock-solid reliability of an on-board LumenRadio wireless DMX/RDM receiver as standard. 

NandoBeam™S6 features :

• 37 multi-chip RGBW 15W sources
• Virtual colour wheel, including most common white colour temperature preset 
• Zoom: 8° to 40°  
• Single front lens
• Advanced cooling system based on heatpipe technology
• Selected ventilation user mode
• RJ45 input/output for ArtNet 
• XLR 5 input/output for DMX and RDM

For more information on Ayrton lighting products, visit www.ayrton.eu

Hellfest is not as frightening as it sounds! For three days, 40,000 rock and metal fans gather in the French western countryside (Clisson, just outside of Nantes) for this annual festival.

Headlined by Def Leppard, Kiss, and Volbeat, this year’s event saw Nexo’s new STM system make its Hellfest debut on the two main stages.

 French rental company Melpomen provided the audio kit for Hellfest since its inception in 2006, and, as Melpo has been a big Nexo user for nearly 20 years. The festival has always been Nexo-centric. With STM onboard this year, that meant more headroom and more control than ever before, according to Thierry Tranchant, Melpo’s president.

 “We have a very good relationship with the festival organisers, so when we explained that we needed STM because it is such a fantastic, powerful system, and it’s so easy to rig, they just took our word for it,” he says, backstage

During day one of the event.”We’ve designed it so that the maximum level of the system is 118 dB, so we have a serious amount of headroom to play with.” And evidently so: the headliners were coming through loud and clear at just 104 dB from FOH – some 55 m back from the stage. Tranchant says the throw from stage was actually 70 m to the end of the audience area.

“We’ve always had a great sound from GEO-T at Hellfest, but I have to say working with STM is quite a step up. Sonically, the HF and the mid frequencies are just perfect, and we now have an extremely solid and powerful low-end”.
Tranchant insists. “The additional power, in fact, is so evident that we only need to use two-thirds of the amount of STM cabinets in comparison to what we would need if we were using GEO – that is really impressive.”
As usual at Hellfest, there are two main stages located next to each other and the bands ‘flip-flop’ between the two to ensure that the festival soundtrack is uninterrupted. “There is no silence at Hellfest,” jokes Tranchant.

The two PA systems effectively run as one, continuously. When a band was playing on main stage A, the B stage system dropped 6 dB in level, and vice-versa. Both stages were equipped with identical STM systems with crossover frequencies set to 180 Hz (Bass to Main) and 60 Hz (S118 Subbass to B112 Bass). Each stage had a dedicated L/R main hang of 15 x STM M46 Main Modules and 15 x STM B112 Bass Modules per side; and two stacks of 15 x S118 Sub Modules in a cardioïd configuration on the floor. Amplification was handled by 20 x units of Nexo Universal Amp Racks, each containing two NXAMP 4x4s. 

Melpomen’s team was led by crew chief David Prevost, with Cedric Bernard and Christophe Rousseau supervising FOH on Main Stage 1, and Samuel Biraies and Wilfrid Hubert on Main Stage 2.

Contact : nexo-sa.com

Over the past five years, the Free Press Summer Festival (FPSF), staged at Eleanor Tinsley Park just west of downtown Houston, has quickly grown into one of Texas’ most eagerly anticipated music festivals. The event ultimately drawing nearly 100,000 concertgoers to enjoy 90 national and local artists performing on six stages over two days.

Matt & Kim Concert on the Saturn Stage (photo: Ryan Paulin)

 Houston’s LD Systems once again served as the primary audio, video and lighting provider for FPSF 2013 and supplied production gear and services for the festival’s four primary stages. This year, however, the company chose to deploy L-ACOUSTICS K1 systems on the two largest stages, Mars and Saturn. 

Mars Stage, Calvin Harris (photo: Ryan Paulin)

FPSF’ Mars stage featured night-closing performances from EDM superstars, Bassnectar and Calvin Harris preceded by a broad spectrum of musical artists like Of Monsters and Men, TV on the Radio, Mavis Staples, Alabama Shakes, Passion Pit and Cat Power.

Saturn stage hosted an equally eclectic variety of performances ranging from The Postal Service, Gogol Bordello and Matt & Kim to Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, Geto Boys and The Mavericks.

Six K1-SB per side just outside of the K1 hangs. (photo: Ryan Paulin)

According to LD Systems Director of Production Services Robert Ausmus, both the Mars and Saturn stages utilized identical main hangs comprised of 10 K1 per side, each featuring three KARA for downfill. For low-frequency reinforcement, Mars flew six K1-SB per side just outside of the K1 hangs, supplemented by 18 SB28 groundstacked subs spread out across the face of the stage, while Saturn relied solely on two dozen groundstacked SB28.

A total of 22 KUDO on each stage served as flown outfills and offstage fills. Two ARCS atop two SB28 per side delivered sidefill for the stages, and several KARA were additionally called upon for stage apron fill. Various quantities of 115XT HiQ, KARA and SB18 were also deployed as needed for stage monitoring, and all FOH and monitor systems were LA8-powered and processed. 

LD Systems’ K1 at FPSF

“Having been a part of the Free Press Summer Festival from the very start, it’s exciting for us to see it grow from less than 10,000 people to 100,000 in just five years,” says Ausmus. “Omar Afra at Free Press Houston and Jagi Katial at Pegstar Concerts have a real genius for assembling an increasingly diverse roster of hip talent that has really helped drive their success since 2009.

“Last year, after hearing that we had invested in an L-ACOUSTICS K1 system for RodeoHouston, they asked if it would be appropriate for their festival as well. We told them that K1 would greatly elevate their production values, help attract higher-profile artists and continue to build up the FPSF brand, which it certainly has.

Every artist walked away from this year’s festival completely satisfied and the producers were ecstatic with how everything sounded, especially on the monster Bassnectar and Calvin Harris shows at the end of each night.”

Free Press Summer Festival : www.fpsf.com
LD Systems: www.ldsystems.com

L-ACOUSTICS is a leading innovator and manufacturer of high-performance loudspeakers, amplifiers and signal processing devices for touring and installed sound markets. Known around the globe for pioneering and championing the modern line array loudspeaker concept with V-DOSC®, the company has received numerous accolades for its K1, KUDO™, KARA, KIVA™, ARCS®, XT coaxial loudspeaker systems and SB line of subwoofer enclosures, all powered and processed with the LA4 and LA8 amplified controllers in fulfillment of a “total system approach.” Product distribution and customer service for the USA is handled by L-ACOUSTICS’ subsidiary in Oxnard, California.

L-ACOUSTICS US, 2201 Celsius Avenue, Unit E, Oxnard, CA 93030
Tel: 805.604.0577 / Fax: 805.604.0858
Email: [email protected] / Web: www.l-acoustics.com

It wouldn’t be the Fourth of July without the “Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular,” and Robert Juliat Cyrano followspots helped light up the annual event, which was televised live from the Charles River Esplanade.

The free outdoor concert marked its fortieth anniversary.  The event draws over 500,000 people each year to the Boston and Cambridge sides of the Charles River. 

Audiences wait with anticipation to hear the Boston Pops’ now classic rendition of Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture” with real cannons, church bells and fireworks; “The Stars and Stripes Forever” with ceremonial American flag drop and confetti shot; and watch a final explosive fireworks array.  This year musical guests included Susan Tedeschi, Ellis Hall, Howie Day, Ayla Brown, and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus.  Keith Lockhart conducted the Boston Pops Orchestra. 

“The event was a lot of fun to be part of,” says lighting designer Christopher Landy of Vibrant Design LLC.  “Summer shows like this one can be challenging because they start in the daylight and end at night, so you need to use spots that are able to compete with the sun.”

Landy utilized two Cyranos obtained from Capron.  “The talent looked great,” Landy says.  “The spots fields are perfectly even and consistent and they’re very easy to operate – Which is more important than you think.  It makes it easy to balance and easy for the operator and myself to subtly tweek levels.”
Cyrano is a compact and efficient 2500-watt HMI followspot with a high-performance quartz condenser optical system.  It features a 100% closing iris in a removable cassette; 100% closing dimmer; B-size gobo holder ; and 6-way boomerang color changer with removable filter frames.

Landy reports that he uses Robert Juliat lighting exclusively these days – even on less spectacular shows.  “When I am lighting A-List talent, I need an A-List fixture Juliat provides that,” he says.  “The camera sees every imperfection and flutter, an inconsistent field is not an option.  In fact, on a recent comedy shoot, I had to swap out three competitors’ spots after the first day of taping.  They just weren’t cutting it.  With the Juliat spots it was like a new show.  Shows with Juliats equal happy clients”.

About Robert Juliat

Robert Juliat is a three-generation, independent, family-run company dedicated to stage lighting.  The current chairman’s grandfather was, at the end of the 19th century, one of the pioneers in creating special effects for the fledgling motion picture industry in France.

Robert Juliat lights are used worldwide by customers who include the Cirque du Soleil, Celine Dion in Las Vegas, Disney World, The Royal Shakespeare Company, the Comedie Francaise, the Holiday On Ice tour, the Athens 2004 Summer Olympic Games and football’s World Cup in Japan and Germany.
R&D, production and the company headquarters are based in the village of Fresnoy-en-Thelle, 50 km north of Paris.  Robert Juliat USA is located in Wallingford, Connecticut. 

For more information visit www.robertjuliat.com

Dedicated to studios and DJs, Flare Audio’s S1 bi-amplified speaker system has been designed using advanced technologies and measurement methods and claims an outstanding accuracy in sound reproduction.

First introduced mid-January, S1 speaker system is the first product of the “Space” Series. Il uses two custom Neodynium magnet drivers: one 125 W powered 6.5 inch (16.5 cm) and one 50 W powered 1 inch driver. Its cabinet is made of CNC machined solid aerospace aluminum blocks. The medium driver has an aluminum phase plug and the HF driver has a rotatable waveguide with multiple dispersion options. S1 dimensions are 200 x 320 x 130 mm and weight is 22 lbs (10 kg). Features include 125 Hz – 32 kHz frequency response.

Designed as a reference monitor, Space S1 claims an immediacy of sound with clarity and detail accuracy. Where other speaker designs strive to control resonance and internal reflections through enclosure design and dampening or mask them by DSP, S1 design banishes internal resonances. Designed relies on a measurement method called Waveform integrity (Wi) based on a time-domain analysis of differences between the electrical signal fed to the system and the driver’s audio response collected by an high resolution RTA microphone.
Future products encompassing Space Technology include Space X5; a live music product with unmatched size/power ratio, planned for release early 2013.

For more information please visit www.flareaudio.com
Especially to have a look on the white papers: « waveform integrity and sound propagation » et « waveform integrity testing ».

Mackie Launches My Fader^™, a powerful remote Control App for DL1608 and DL806 mixers from an iPhone or iPod touch

My Fader allows control of DL Series mixers via Wi-Fi from an iPhone or iPod touch. Version 1.0 features touch-friendly control over multiple input channels at once and an output selector for quick access to any mix.

The addition of channel muting, detailed channel ID and metering and the inclusion of a master fader provide unmatched control for an iPhone mixer application.

The access control feature.

Plus, an access control feature can limit users to only control their assigned aux, keeping them away from other outputs. This is great for simple on-stage control of monitor mixes.

Also unique is the ability to recall from any snapshots from the current show on the DL mixer.

My Fader v1.0 will be available soon as free download directly to your iPhone or iPod touch.

www.mackie.com/DLSeries