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Le Maitre to Debut New Smoke and Flame Machines at LDI 2015

Le Maitre will be unveiling two new Special Effects technologies at this year’s LDI, Booth 455. Le Maitre’s G300-SMART is a professional smoke machine, designed with the future in mind. This new machine features IoT capability via Wi-Fi, wireless set up and diagnostics, and an easy to read backlit LCD display. Also on view at LDI 2015 will be the X2 WAVE FLAMER,  a fluid based flame machine.

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AV Stumpfl's Wings Engine Raw is a triple-stream 4K uncompressed media server that uses a custom engineered RAID 10 system. It willbe featured at LDI along with other products.

AV Stumpfl Ready for LDI 2015

AV Stumpfl will bring the largest ever line up of innovation to LDI 2015. Making its Americas debut at LDI 2015, will be the Wings Engine Raw, a triple-stream 4K uncompressed media server that uses a custom engineered RAID 10 system (pictured here).

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Revo 4 IR, COB Cannon Wash Pearl and WiFLY Chameleon

ADJ Making Plans for LDI 2015

ADJ will continue to celebrate 30 Years of Pure Lighting Excitement as it returns to LDI with a series of game-changing products, all of which display the company’s recent developments in the professional production and nightclub/mobile entertainment sectors. They include the Revo 4 IR, COB Cannon Wash Pearl and WiFLY Chameleon (pictured here, L-R).

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ConnectCAD plug-in software for Vectorworks can help users in a variety of ways. Here it’s constructing video wiring layouts for a show.

Using connectCAD 2015

AV Integrator Cramer Inc., Others Getting Boost from New Plug-in Software

Vectorworks is arguably the most popular CAD program utilized in the live event industry. Through the years several companies have come up with clever plug ins that made the program work more efficiently in one particular field or another.

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The 'venue' often starts out as a lawn, or even a cow pasture.

The Art and Zen of Tent Lighting

Outside tent gigs. A love-hate relationship for many designers and technicians. We’ve all been there — watching the radar and weather reports, hoping for clear skies. Finding a safe and efficient path for the trucks to come on the property. How much plywood will we need to be able to drive the trucks onto the grass? Can we get the generator close enough to the tent so that we do not have to run a thousand feet of feeder cable? These are just some of the fun challenges that a production company has to face when planning an outside tent gig.

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AMC Fabrication designed and built a spiral truss ramp for motorbikes to ride up and jump off of for the Marvel Universe Live! show.

AMC Fabrication: Making Their Own Way

“We keep our head down and try not to look at what everybody else is doing,” says Matt Parnello. “We make our own way.” And for AMC Fabrication, that means making things that no one else can, taking on the nearly impossible jobs and delivering quality work in tight deadlines.

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Concert-style looks are part of the attempt by Premier Boxing Champions to bring the sport back into primetime. Photo by Suzanne Teresa

Modern-Day Boxing

Recently, broadcasting the sport of Boxing has grabbed a more central position on Network Television. New on the stage is Premier Boxing Champions. HBO has upped the ante with spectacular Pay-per-views. Top Rank and, more recently, TruTV are carving their niche in broadcast boxing as well.

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Lasers play predominantly in the set. Chemical Brothers tour photo by Todd Kaplan.

Chemical Brothers Mix it Up with a Fresh Design

With the release of their first studio album in five years, Born in the Echoes, The Chemical Brothers are once again out on the road doing what they do best — laying down some solid grooves with a heavy dance beat. Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons joined forces some 25 years ago in Manchester, England as The Chemical Brothers, one of the pioneers of Electronic Dance Music. Through a history of festival gigs their visual performances at live shows have reached legendary status, and once again they have not let their fans down with the current touring set up.

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