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4Wall Networks with Seeing Eye at Cisco Live

Cisco Live

4Wall Networks with Seeing Eye at Cisco Live

SAN DIEGO – The annual Cisco Live convention is described as the Woodstock of informational technology and networking conferences. This year’s US event featured lighting design by Paul Efron of Seeing Eye Lighting Design and lighting equipment from 4Wall Las Vegas. The opener presented a lighting challenge, featuring BMX stunt bike rider Danny Macaskill seen on video, followed by five live BMX riders entering from various locations around the room.

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Kinetic Lighting Adds ETC Source Four LEDs to Rental Inventory

GLENDALE, CA – Kinetic Lighting has added ETC Source Four LED fixtures to its rental inventory. The company is now renting the Lustr+ model, based on the seven-color LED light system unique to ETC’s Selador line. Both Kinetic and ETC are promoting the Source Four LED series as a complement to conventional Source Fours, rather than a replacement.

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Kris Van Hullebusch

Martin Expands Controller Support Team, Adds Hotline

AARHUS, Denmark – Kris Van Hullebusch joins Martin Professional as a Test and Support Engineer at its lighting controller development center in Belgium, providing global support, training and service. Martin also added a 24-hour Controller Support Hotline available in multiple languages including English, German, Dutch, French, Spanish, Chinese and Japanese among others.

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CSN with Spot One

Bandit Lites LDs Back GLP’s New Spot One

NASHVILLE – Having maintained a long relationship with GLP Inc. since the original impression 90 (first used on the WWE circuit), Bandit Lites has embraced every subsequent generation of the German company’s LED platform. Recently they invested in next-generation Spot One technology. The new LED moving heads have already been out with Crosby, Stills, and Nash (with Jimmy Hatten as LD) with further tours of duty with Jackson Browne (LD Steve Comer).

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New Audio Console Gives Sound Engineers Lighting Control Options

POTTERS BAR, UK — Integrated DMX functionality may soon be giving sound engineers something new to play with – the lighting rig. The Soundcraft Si Performer range of mixers from Harman features a newly designed DMX512 port offering core lighting control. The first release of software provides four scene masters (A-D) with associated slave channels on the ALT fader layers, and individual color intensities or parameters can be set on the slave faders with an overall master level fader, which itself may be assigned to any of the main fader layers for simultaneous access to audio and lighting levels.

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Green Hippo Upgrades Hippotizer

LONDON – Green Hippo  has given its Hippotizer an upgrade and makeover, improving work-flow and production times and allowing operators to create and program with improved simplicity and ease. The company will preview the new features at their PLASA stand in London.

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Platinum Beam 15R Pro

Elation Platinum Beam 15R Pro

LOS ANGELES –  Elation introduces the new Platinum Beam 15R Pro, which offers even brighter output, sharper optics and more features than the original Platinum Beam 5R introduced last year.  Like its predecessor, the Platinum Beam 15R Pro is powered by an advanced Philips MSR Platinum lamp — only in this case it’s the higher-output Platinum15R model, which delivers brightness comparable to a 1,200-watt discharge lamp, making it ideal for larger venues and applications.

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Martin M2GO

Martin M-Series Software Update

AARHUS, Denmark – Martin Professional has released a new operating system for its M-Series lighting controllers, which encompass the M1, M2GO, M-PC and Maxxyz consoles. The new software, version 2.90.400, includes more than 70 new features and upgrades and can be downloaded from the website.

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