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Singer, song writer Mika with a string of English Funk/Pop hits to his name, gave two sold out concerts at the Casino de Paris atthe end of last year. Lighting kit was provided by Régie Lumière a Paris based and long established lighting hire company who suggested Martin’s Mac Viper and the ilumo ZOOM LED Spot from Lumonic. Lighting Designer Justin Shaw was just astonished and even entranced by the lights.

Robert Juliat will introduce at Siel Creative Concept Light by Robert Juliat, a new concept in lighting formulated to illustrate its forthcoming range of unique TIBO luminaires. The full TIBO range will be previewed at SIEL.

Success takes two: those of us who hold the pen and all of you who read so, once again, we thank you for being there every day. We do not know what 2013 will bring, except that there will always be more to do, so keep reading Soundlightup. We wish you all a fantastic year. Frankly, You Rock! So, keep on rocking in 2013!

The latest addition to the JB-Lighting range, loaded with 61 15-watt RGBW LEDs, the A12 moving head wash is presented as a technological flagship capable of competing with 1200 W arc-source lights. Beyond the advertising claims, does this unassuming, 100% German mover really revolutionize a market locked into a race for power? When the Parisian rental company NAT didn't hesitate to invest in a significant number of A12s – 500 units – we decided it was necessary to bring one to the test bench.

Schouw & Co., parent company of Martin Professional, has entered into an agreement with the global infotainment and audio company HARMAN International Industries to sell Martin to HARMAN. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory approvals, and is expected to close in Q1 2013.

Among the reasons for setting up a digital audio network, the most common is the need for routing multiple channels to a small number of fixed destinations. For example, between the stage and the FoH console. Therefore, in most cases it may not be necessary to resort to extremely powerful network systems, which require specialized expertise and heavy administration. Roland REAC is a solution in these situations.

ADB Lighting Technologies has, with great sadness, announced the passing of one of the company's longest serving friends, its popular sales manager, Dirk Van Nieuwenhuysen, on 13 November 2012. Dirk, aged 50, had worked exclusively with ADB Lighting since the mid 1980s

Our british friends, designers of the famous Jarag, had a brilliant idea to use LED to create a beam projecting screen. This is how Elidy was born. A LED matrix on a semi-transparent plate where each optic creates a spotlight, as long as smoke materialize it. The picture animating the beam. What a nice innovation.

LEDs have replaced most of the lamps in our fixtures for show lighting, although certainly in each case with more or less success. There is still one type of product in which no one had thought to install them: the strobe. Peter Johansen, who marks his return to the industry at the command of SGM, had this great idea and offers us his X-5, a strobe loaded with white LEDs. We put on our sunglasses and take a closer look at it.

With the new MKH 8090, wide cardioid directivity microphone, Sennheiser widens its studio recording microphones. Located between the omnidirectional MKH 8020 and the cardioid 8040, the MKH8090 is the best solution for orchestral recordings.

During the last AES convention in San Francisco (October 26th to 29th) AudioTechnica introduced the serie 50, a new range of very high quality studio microphones and presented its first model the AT5040, a vocal recording cardioid condenser microphone with “four elements membrane”.

Low latency repeater (0,03 ms), the Klark Teknik DN9610 extends the operational distance of an AES50 digital audio network (Cat5e or Cat6) by 100m and carries simultaneously two AES50 streams with 24 bits at 48 or 96kHz sampling rate with the choice of selecting either one frequency for each.

Very expected, the D9000 Sennheiser digital HF transmission system was introduced early september and presented at IBC and the Plasa. One of the main features is to offer two coding modes HD and LR, adapted to various conditions to give the highest audio quality in every environment.

An evening of fun, an evening of excess and an evening of dreams, this is what Bruce Springsteen gave us on the most wonderful Independence Day France has ever witnessed. With the E-Street Band as tight as ever and the Boss rock-solid despite his 63 years, they managed to throw the breakers at the Palais omnisports de Paris in Bercy four times during the soundcheck! With Avid Venue and 160 L-Acoustics enclosures brought to bear, John "Coop" Cooper as Chief blaster and Soundlightup as a lucky witness, we can now certify that rock and roll is still alive!

To our great delight the Wrecking Ball tour hit Paris Bercy for two days, allowing us to (re)discover a true American rock concert, traditional style, with a setup in which the audience surrounds the stage area and the singer for a total communion, which was an obvious pleasure to watch.