d&b audiotechnik has introduced the latest addition to the company’s extensive product repertoire, the 44S loudspeaker. The company’s first flush mountable cabinet, delivering compact, high performance audio and a wide range of flexible mounting options. “For audio professionals who may be challenged by dimensions, architecture, or aesthetics, the 44S loudspeaker is a powerful, compact, flush-mountable loudspeaker that provides the sound needed, no matter what space they have to work with,” commented d&b Product Manager, Wolfgang Schulz. “It’s a very compact point source loudspeaker for flexible use in nearfield applications, and there is a big need in our industry for this type of…
Author: James Robertson
Live Event Community – an organisation formed to support Canadian live event workers who’ve lost their livelihoods due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic – has organised a day of visibility on Tuesday 22 September 2020. Live Event Community calls upon event professionals, technicians, suppliers, and venues across Canada to light the night red one hour after sundown to raise awareness for an industry that is still dark. Organisations, grassroots groups and individuals will come together to illuminate landmarks in red, bringing to light the many performers, creators, technical, logistical, and management support personnel who drive a $100bn Canadian economic engine.…
HK Audio is delighted to unveil POLAR 12, a full-fledged active full-range columnar PA system for musicians, entertainers, DJs, presentations, schools and audiovisual applications, and big brother to its bestselling POLAR 10 model. The POLAR 12 system consists of a subwoofer and two columnar elements. The birch-ply subwoofer’s enclosure is acoustically shaped and sized to deliver excellent audio results in combination with a specially developed 12” long-excursion woofer. Driven by a muscular 2,000-watt power amplifier, this combination delivers an incredibly full bass response even at high volumes. The midrange/HF column comes in two sections for easy transport. The top section…
On August 26, the exterior of the Columbia Museum of Art was lit in purple, gold and white for Women’s Equality Day, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment’s passage. David Sneath of ACS Sound and Light, organised the inspiring display with the city of Columbia. A collection of 30 CHAUVET Professional WELL Fit fixtures were used to light the museum and the historic building across the street from it at 1530 Main Street. Delicately balanced with varying degrees of saturation, and white light blended artfully with colour palettes, the commemorative lighting at the museum commanded attention as it…
Datapath welcomes two new key appointments, with Alex Taylor joining the UK-based manufacturer as Project Manager and Dan Rippin announced as Software Development Manager. With a wealth of experience gained from photography and guest experience specialist Picsolve, as well as managing projects with the NHS and associated technology providers, Alex will be working closely with Datapath’s research and development teams, engineers, and sales and support teams, to ensure smooth completion of the company’s up-and-coming product releases. Alex commented: “Datapath is globally respected as a market leader in video processing and management and I am thrilled to be joining their team.…
LED CHINA 2020, concurrently held with Entertainment Design Expo, Commercial Integrated Systems China, Digital Signage China and SIGN CHINA, has concluded at Shenzhen Convention & Exhibition Center, China, from 1 to 3 September, along with the debut of its B2B online webcast platform. LED CHINA 2020 featured 572 exhibitors, 5 exhibition topics which extended from LED displays – LED, digital signage, commercial integration, entertainment design, advertising signage, attracted 15,207 visitors, 167 of them came from 31 countries and regions outside of China during 3-day exhibition period. The concurrent events of LED CHINA 2020, the first edition of Entertainment Design Expo…
Media Business Insight, the organisers of the annual Media Production & Technology Show (MPTS) have confirmed that the show will take place from 12-13 May 2021 at London’s Olympia exhibition centre. Following its postponement due to the COVID lockdown, MPTS will once again showcase the industry’s latest technologies and services, as well as continue to run an exceptional content programme across the show floor. Safety of visitors and exhibitors will be of upmost priority for the MPTS organising team and a list of guidelines will be produced shortly. The UK is revered as a content producing and broadcasting giant and…
QSC has announced two new audio, video and control processors native to the Q-SYS Ecosystem – the smaller Q-SYS Core 8 Flex and Q-SYS Core Nano. Driven by the proliferation of networked endpoints and the expanding processing needs of a wider variety of spaces and topologies, the Core 8 Flex includes onboard analog audio I/O and GPIO plus network I/O while the Q-SYS Core Nano offers network-only audio I/O processing and control. Built on the same flexible and scalable software foundation as the rest of the Q-SYS processor portfolio, including the best-in-class Q-SYS Core 110f, these new Cores expand design…
DMF Lighting, the leader in modular downlighting in the custom home integration channel, will reveal the all-new DID Series at the 2020 CEDIA Expo Virtual show. Built on DMF’s award-winning modular foundation, this new residential downlighting system improves on every major metric by which light quality is measured: colour rendering, dimming performance, and flexibility. Both the DID2 fixed downlight and the DID4 adjustable downlight were designed specifically for home integrators. These modules tout tool-free field changeable optics from 15 to 70+ degrees, high-performance dimming and the flexibility to make changes as projects evolve. “When we set out to develop the…
The newest Conference Controller from ClearOne is now available worldwide. The Conference Controller’s 10-inch touch screen is designed for easy control of ClearOne’s CONVERGE Pro 2 audio DSP mixers as well as COLLABORATE Live video conferencing room systems from a single device. The Conference Controller functions can also be conveniently accessed from a personal mobile device, eliminating the need for touching shared surfaces by downloading the free mobile apps. A perfect addition to ClearOne’s audio and video platforms, the Conference Controller can be paired with CONVERGE Pro 2 DSPs, allowing users to make and receive VoIP and/or PSTN conference calls…
