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Despite its minimalist appearance, the Ayrton MAGICDOT™-R luminaire is a powerhouse of light and technology. Equipped with next-generation LED emitter, optics, and cooling system, this moving head projector is ready to break all records. Ayrton put 144 of them into its fabulous online video demo. Bruno Mars’ lighting designer, Cory FitzGerald, premiered 184 MAGICDOT™-R luminaires live for the performer’s festival-closing concert appearance at Rock in Rio - Las Vegas.

It took three years of Robe's R&D to develop BMFL and to meet all of its design requirements – a new 1700 W Osram short-arc lamp, a 5-55° zoom range, a new, optimized CMY color mixing system, an electronic stabilizer and only 36 kg on the scale – for an exceptional fixture. Since early January, the date of its release, 1500 projectors were sold worldwide and production for the next three months is already reserved. It has certainly hit the ground running!

Once again Ayrton is in the spotlight with a new product presented at Prolight+Sound 2014 and it’s already been a big hit. The MagicBlade-R, a moving-head luminaire with seven LED emitters arranged in-line, may look familiar but it has little in common with its older brother, the RollaPix. This member of the RADICAL product line, has a single row of seven 67-mm diameter 4.5º collimator optics coupled with 15W RGBW Ostar Stage LEDs, famous for producing long-range tight beams.

In 2013, just before a PL+S in Frankfurt there was rumor that SSL was up to something and the announcement was like a bomb going off... SSL was presenting a live digital console for the first time. At last! The console, the result of many years of observation and experience surveys, should include everything that is the current standard for digital consoles for live performance but also incorporate new and innovative technologies.

With its new Led projectors made to replace the existing traditional lighting, ETC blows the hot and the cold on the light. The American manufacturer took all his time to develop those products, setting the specifications on very high standards to fulfill even the most difficult Lighting Designer requests with its family of four LED luminaires: Tungsten 3000K, Daylight 5600K, Studio HD with a range from 2700K to 5600K and with its five colors and the Lustr Series 2 with his matrix of 7 different LED colors.

Clay Paky leads its competitors at a cracking pace. Six months after the Super Sharpy was presented at Prolight+Sound, topping the headlines from Plasa is Mythos, a compact spot with a power consumption of only 500 W and an incredible punch, like the Super Sharpy. Soundlightup was invited to a preview presentation of the Beta version by Clay Paky France before Plasa, and we had time to get out our Minolta lux meter and perform some flux measurements.

With the IPD "Intelligent Power Drive" series, Lab.gruppen has created a new concept for the amplification of medium-power sound reinforcement systems that incorporates a DSP platform and intelligent power management into an affordable 1U rack sized package, which is light and easy to set up. To do this, the Swedish manufacturer has changed its tune in amplification technology by opting for fully bridged class D instead of class TD (tracking class D) and is working on the optimal management of energy resources of the switch-mode power supply (without PFC) by distributing the available energy between the two channels as required.

Launched at LDI 2013, Intellipix is a semi-transparent panel accommodating 25 LED RGBW 15 W sources linked to a new collimator, which will be available across the entire “RADICAL” range from this French manufacturer. An exclusively orientated effect, with its 25 narrow beams and profile spots to create relief in space. The intellipix acts as a link between the light and the video, which will allow designers to give free rein to their imaginations. Just like the toy Meccano, the system of panels allows an infinite range of possibilities at set-up level.

Five months after its enthusiastically acclaimed debut at the PLASA Show in London, the bee has finally left the factory. B-Eye K20 with the new effects created by its rotating lens has already begun a brilliant career.

After MAC 2000 XB success, Martin couldn’t only introduce a new wash, even with a 1:5 zoom, with an extremely comprehensive color system and an iris because of the hard competition with LED washes. MAC Viper Wash had to have something more hidden behind the ‘DX’.

Following the introduction of the fully outfitted Tibo range, it was time to modernize its sacrosanct Fresnel projector, in a powerful 150 W LED version available in cool white and warm white. Join me in a tour around this high-tech fixture.

MagicPanel™602 was a smashing success at the ProLight & Sound 2013 trade show in Frankfurt as evidenced by the impressive number of orders taken: 1,200 sold worldwide since July 1, with over 500 in the US alone.

Lake technology is widely recognized and respected in the field of digital signal processing. The technological approach of this manufacturer has brought innovative elements to this field. We have precisely reviewed the LM44, one of the last Lake audio system processor with the LM26, regarding the use, ergonomics and measurements. Here is the results.

Robert Juliat has come up with an ultra-modular concept based on a compact projector, available as a profile or Fresnel, with fixed or variable color temperature. In a word: everything. Here is our test of the Tibo 533 LED profile, in three versions of white light output.

It is the new revolution of the season, a Martin moving head, a true spot with a blessed 1000 W discharge lamp, gobos, CMY color, zoom and functions like the good old days of this breed of projectors that we believed to be extinct. It has a rock star name and the stature of a workhorse; it is a deadly viper and a legion of 5000 units has already marched out of the factories. It's all here and, more than anything else, it represents a resurrection.