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Following the successful launch of the Cobalt 20 desk at the PLASA trade show, ETC is expanding the range with the Cobalt 10 desk, which will be available for stand visitors to play with. The desk brings the power of Cobalt 20 to a compact, road-ready footprint, with ten motorised faders.

Brusi Acoustics, a consulting firm based in Valencia (Spain), has announced the availability of PAcalculate, a free multi-lingual multi-platform mobile app with calculators and other information and utilities for pro-audio and lighting professionals. PAcalculate is lightweight and can be installed on iOS (Apple), Android, Windows-Phone 8 and Blackberry devices from their respective app stores.

James Thomas Engineering has announced the imminent departure of its Sales Manager, Andy Walters, after a career spanning 21 years with the company. Walters, son of the company’s co-founder John Walters, has chosen to take up a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to join specialist UK model makers, Amalgam.

ATK Audiotek of Valencia, CA (USA), production sound provider for the annual Grammy Awards telecast for the past 14 years, augmented its audience PA system for this year’s ceremony with prototype subwoofer cabinets utilizing Powersoft’s innovative M-Force transducer technology.

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.

Airstar a world leader in advanced lighting solutions for the event, cinema, broadcast, architectural design, construction, rescue and safety industries, is proud to announce that they have received a €1M capital injection to help accelerate their development.

As an integral part of the CL series digital mixing system, Yamaha’s R Series I/O units have been widely praised for their sonic quality, their Dante audio networking capability and remarkable flexibility. That flexibility has now been further enhanced with the new R Remote software application for Windows.

Successfully launched at Plasa 2013, the Clay Paky B-EYE is turning up with other surprises at ProLight+Sound; firstly B-EYE has become a comprehensive product line including: B-EYE K20, B-EYE K10, B-EYE K10 Easy and B-EYE K10 CC.

ProLight+Sound and Showtech will merge and take place concurrently in Frankfurt from now on. Reed Exhibitions Deutschland GmbH, the organiser of Showtech, and Messe Francfurt reached an agreement to that effect. The merger of both shows will create "the largest trade fair alliance for professional event technology in the areas audio, lighting, theatre and stage, media and image production, and system integration".

Calvary Church of Naperville, (Illinois) located in the western suburbs of Chicago, recently wrapped up a five-month sanctuary renovation that increased seating from 2500 to 3000 without moving any walls. As part of the project, the church also underwent a full AVL system retrofit, which was designed and integrated by CCI Solutions of Olympia, Washington.

With the start of a new year comes the start of a new arrangement for Robert Juliat in their distribution network as AED Distribution takes on the role of official distributor for the Benelux Countries. The agreement came into force on 1 January 2014 when AED Distribution took on responsibility for the Netherlands, having represented Belgium and Luxembourg since 2011.

The innovation, technology and design of ArphoniA Collection, a new line of professional speakers created by Alain Pouillon-Guibert, is to be unveiled exclusively on February 4 next at the ISE (Integrated Systems Europe) 2014 Exhibition in Amsterdam.

Robert Juliat is delighted to have this confirmed by Billboard Magazine’s list of Top Ten Tours for 2013 which showed that RJ followspots created fireworks (in a good way!) on no less than seven of these spectacular events.

Meyer Sound has announced the self-powered LYON™ linear sound reinforcement system, the newest addition to the LEO™ Family of linear loudspeaker systems. Incorporating the technology of the LEO Family in a lighter and more compact package, LYON extends the advantages of highly linear self-powered systems to a broader range of venues and applications. LYON will make its debut at the ISE trade show in Amsterdam.

Belgian based automation engineering specialists Wicreations designed and created five major automation elements for Mylène Farmer’s highly visual 2013 ‘Timeless’ tour, using a combination of bespoke and standard Wicreations products.