InfoComm

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• The Astro Spatial Audio booth

• The FBT stand

• The KV2 stand

• A busy Fulcrum booth • The Yes Tech stand • The Glux team

INFOCOMM

LAS VEGAS / 6-8 JUNE

This year, InfoComm received close to 43,000 attendees from around the world. Less than the 2017 show in Orlando, however a 10% increase on 2016 when it was last held in Vegas. The show seemed busy and there was a lot of great technology on show. A total of 540 visitors took part in the training sessions AVIXA had on offer and over 3,100 attendees registered for its seminars and workshops. Highlights from the show floor included: Adamson introduced its IS-Series, bringing the rider acceptance and performance of Adamson’s touring products to the world of integration. ADJ showcased its brand new video panel range, the Design Series, providing a whole new dimension in video to production designers, system integrators and audiovisual installers.

Alcons Audio presented its Pro-Ribbon Immersive Experience, showcasing its remarkable possibilities of high quality, objectbased immersive audio from 3D live sound specialist Astro Spatial Audio (ASA). Alcorn McBride highlighted two new products this year, both designed to streamline system architecture for themed attractions like dark rides, parades and rollercoasters. The nextgeneration V16X show controller and the RideAmp, a new on-board audio amplifier, a natural companion product to RidePlayer for applications demanding high-power audio amplification. Allen & Heath presented its SQ-7, the flagship console in the 96kHz SQ Series. SQ-7 takes the powerful XCVI 96kHz FPGA engine and added

extended control and I/O in a larger format, boasting 33 faders, 32 onboard preamps, 16 custom soft keys and eight user-definable soft rotary controls. Astera showcased its new mounting accessory, WingPlate, designed to make it easier than ever to construct any design with the Astera Tube. Atlona introduced its new Gain Series of compact, energy-efficient amplifiers: the Gain 120 (AT-GAIN-120) and Gain 60 (AT- GAIN-60).The company also debuted its new AT-HDVS-SC-RX HDBaseT receiver and scaler, the first HDBaseT receiver to feature Atlona CrystalScale Technology (ACT) for premiumquality 4K scaling, picture optimisation and video wall processing. Audio-Technica showcased its entire line of

• Marco Van Der Knaap of Novastar•The Gloshine booth

• Tony Du of Dicolor

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• The Bose stand • Some of the team from LAMP • Rich and John from XTA

• QSC press call

• The RGBlink stand

• Brian and Alfred of ADJ

• The D.A.S. Audio booth

• The EAW booth

• Gioia of RCF

• Rob Clarke of Allen & Heath with colleague

• A busy start at InfoComm

• The EM Acoustics team

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• The Martin Audio booth

• The Clair Brothers booth

• Txx

• mondo*dr’s Laura posing with the Solotech team

• The One Systems stand

• Patrick and colleagues of Studiomaster

network microphones and devices, including the ATND971a boundary microphone, ATND8677a microphone desk stand, ATND8734a power module, ATND931a gooseneck microphone and ATND933a hanging ceiling-mount microphone. Audinate, announced the addition of a new hands-on, interactive track during its annual Dante Networking World event at InfoComm, the new course, titled ‘Optimising Your Dante Network’ gave attendees practical, real-world examples on how to gain the most out of their Dante network. Audix presented its new M63 boundary microphone, the M65 desktop microphone, and the new Dante, AES67, or AVB/TSN enabled ceiling microphones. AV Stumpfl allowed visitors a first look at its nextgeneration media server software solution, PIXERA, scheduled to be released later this year. The 64-bit

system for real-time media processing, compositing and management is built around the key theme of usability. Barix showcased its IPAM 400 IP audio module - the openly programmable and cost-effective IPAM 400 OEM module, which streamlines product development, saves time and reduces risk for manufacturers creating advanced audio over IP products. Blackmagic Design announced its ATEM 7.5 update, an added support for the new ATEM Camera Control Panel. For ATEM Television Studio Pro 4K, this update also added improved audio support in LCD menus and enhanced audio dynamics monitoring when using ATEM software control. Bosch proudly showcased its expansion of the DICENTIS family: the DICENTIS interpreter desk.

• The Neutrik stand

• The Blackmagicdesign stand

• Tahna of Symetrix

• Ed of Audix

• Relo of Barix and Brian of Dimension PR

• Gareth of Atlona

• The Barco stand

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• Enric of Ecler

• Peer of VITEC

• Ladd of Innovox

• The Barco stand

• Stephane, Albert and John of Chauvet

A product designed to speak the language of the interpreter. By observing and interviewing expert interpreters and technicians worldwide, the desk has been optimised to address their real-world needs. Bose Professional broadened its ControlSpace sound processor line with six new DSP models and three attractive digital wall controllers. The new ControlSpace CSP-1248 and CSP-418 commercial sound processors offer right-sized I/O and simplified configuration for small-to-medium-scale projects. CHAUVET introduced its high performance eight-inch LED fresnel equivalents; engineered with energy-efficient optical systems in full colour, warm white, and variable white versions to satisfy the diverse needs of lighting designers. Clair Brothers teamed up for exciting demos with Earthworks high definition microphones and presented its popular kiTCurve line arrays, which were on display alongside the new, sleek 10SPOT hybrid loudspeaker - a curved array combined with One Series coaxial horn technology. Clear-Com, showcased its E-IPA connection card, a high-density audio-over-IP connection card for the Eclipse HX digital matrix intercom family. Natively AES67 compliant and SMPTE2110-30 ready, the E-IPA card provided 64 streams of low-latency and high audio bandwidth connections for linking existing and new IP-based Clear-Com products. CODA Audio hosted its inaugural rep meeting and top sales agencies from across the US came together for an exclusive demo of the CODA Audio portfolio. Danley Sound Labs hosted a number of discussions

throughout the show, its most enticing topic was the Horn Loudspeaker panel which attracted many visitors. Dataton introduced a new core model in its range of WATCHMAX rack servers, demonstrating BlackTrax real-time motion tracking integration in WATCHOUT and putting the spotlight on pocketsized WATCHPAX 20 media servers. d&b audiotechnik allowed visitors, for the first time, to explore the full extent of what tailor-made means at d&b audiotechnik, with the newly launched custom solutions programme. In addition, the GSL System from the SL Series made its US show debut, the GSL System is a complete solution created specifically for the largest sound reinforcement applications in significantly sized arenas, stadiums and festivals, to accurately deliver any performance style or musical genre. DiGiCo announced the new V2.2 software upgrade for S-Series consoles, which incorporated a number of much-wanted features, as well as the two new DMI modules: the DMI-AMM and DMI ME. digiLED showcased its new digiTHIN range, developed to meet the increasing demands of cinema screen markets with its dimensions simply matching 16:9 HD aspect ratio. Digital Projection launched a total of four new projectors across three ranges at this year’s InfoComm. Alongside the projectors themselves, the co-inventor of DLP technology unveiled two new innovations: IP60-rated 100% sealed optics as well as its proprietary ColorBoost + Red Laser technology.

• Dana and colleague of Vue Audiotechnik

• Alex of Attero Tech

• Marina of ROE

• mondo*dr’s Laura with Alison of Absen

• Mark of GLP

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• The Apart Audio booth

• The Powersoft stand

• The Pioneer Pro Audio booth

• The audio-technica stand

• The Digital Projection booth

• Noel of Ashly Audio

The company also launched its E-Vision Laser 11000 4K-UHD. disguise introduced the Solo, its latest media server, the HDMI 2.0 VFC card, new OmniCal hardware kits, and the upcoming r15 software. DPA Microphones showcased its new d:sign Installation Solutions Series, a product targeted specifically at the installation and conference markets, the d:sign line included an array of products ideally suited for conference and audiovisual applications, including floor stand, ceiling and table top microphones. Following its ISE debut, Dynacord presented its IPX power amplifiers for fixed installation. These power amplifiers are built as the ultimate amplification solution for medium to large-scale live performance sound applications. EAW announced the addition of its RSX212L line array module and RSX18F subwoofer. The two new

RADIUS products provide added versatility to the series designed for both touring and permanent install applications. Elation showcased its latest luminaires in the awardwinning Artiste Series of creative, full-featured moving heads, the Artiste Picasso and Artiste Dali. Elation, additionally, showed off its new Smarty Hybrid, a full-featured spot/beam/wash fixture and the most compact CMY colour-mixing hybrid Elation has released to date. Electro-Voice introduced its latest member of the EV-Innovation family of installation-dedicated loudspeaker systems, the five-model EVC series. A product range designed to make superior sound quality for small/medium-sized installations more affordable and more reliable than ever before. EM Acoustics revealed HALO Arena at this year’s InfoComm. HALO-A is the system that takes HALO Compact design values to the next level. HALO-C

• The Crestron stand

• The DPA Microphone stand

• Sebastian of Astera

• Julie and Mary Beth of L-Acoustics

• mondo*dr’s Laura with Bjorn of Astro Spatial Audio

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• Joe of Triton

• The Airstar booth

made an enormous impact in Europe when it was first launched in 2012 - never before had a modular line array system provided such detail, clarity, and crystalline sonic performance. ENCO visited InfoComm for the second time, bringing along its new physical control surface for its instant play out and automation solutions. Focusrite showcased its RedNet X2P highperformance 2 x 2 Dante audio interface, a product that provides a high-performance remote I/O solution for Focusrite RedNet or other Dante audioover-IP networks. Fulcrum Acoustic introduced its new FW15 stage monitor to attenuate rear LF radiation that interferes with the audience, stage microphones and front fills. GLP displayed its latest fixtures in its range, including the S350, FR1 and the Force 120 stage effect fan, as well as its award winning fixtures such as the JDC1 hybrid strobe and impression X4 Bar. HARMAN Professional Solutions announced its JBL VTX A8 dual eight-inch line array loudspeaker and companion B18 single 18-inch subwoofer, which add to JBL Professional’s flagship VTX A Series technology for compact solutions aimed at small- to mid-size rental and installed applications. Building upon the feature-packed January release of KLANG:technologies’ KOS 3 operating system, the 3D in-ear mixing system manufacturer was pleased to announce its next exciting update, KOS 3.1. Kramer Electronics launched Kramer BRAINware - a software-only master controller processor that simplifies control installations. By containing all of the control logic, design, and attributes of the Kramer Control platform, Kramer BRAINware transforms a Kramer KT-107 touch panel to a fully functional Kramer Control processor brain, without requiring additional physical processor hardware. L-Acoustics announced integration between the L-Acoustics LA4X and LA12X amplified controllers and the Q-SYS platform from QSC. This integration allows users to easily control and monitor the LA4X and LA12X through Q-SYS. Lectrosonics released the availability of select digital hybrid wireless microphone products in the recently expanded 941-960 MHz frequency band.

• The Dataton stand

Linea Research showcased its range of four and eight channel networked DSP amplifiers, the portable and touring focussed M Series and the installation and contractor C Series. The centrepiece of Magewell’s demonstrations was the debut of its new Ultra Stream HDMI standalone streaming encoder, making live streaming remarkably simple even for non-professional users. Martin Audio introduced Sound Adventures, a 3D immersive sound experience in cooperation with its partner, Astro Spatial Audio. The demonstration showcased core experiences including movable sound effects and mixes in real time, and in full 3D, electronically shaping the venue with different acoustic properties and extending the stereo image for the audience. Meyer Sound presented ‘The Labs’, a revealing interactive exploration of all that makes Meyer Sound unique among audio companies. Panasonic announced the development of the AW- UE150, a new 4K integrated remote camera that will offer 4K 60p capture - a first for a broadcast-class PTZ. Pioneer Pro Audio highlighted its XY-3B three-way point source speaker, designed to deliver natural audio at the high sound pressure level required for large venues and outdoor events. Powersoft showcased its complete fixed install amplifier range: the extended Duecanali Series. The new Duecanali 804 and Duecanali 4804, both twochannel amplifier platform with optional DSP. PreSonus continued to refine its StudioLive ecosystem - encompassing mixing, audio processing, routing, and personal monitoring. The staff offered demos all day, including live Q&A chats on its social media for those visitors who couldn’t make it to the stand. QSC celebrated 50 years as a company, what an achievement, additionally the team also won the 2018 Adele De Berri Pioneer award. Rane Commercial displayed its new RH-1, RH-2 and RH-50 headphones, providing audio professionals with the superb sound they demand, coupled with outstanding comfort and compatibility with virtually any equipment.

• The Belden booth

• The Blizzard Lighting stand

• Eric of Elation

• The Antari stand

• A packed Analog Way stand

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• Jeff of Danley • The CODA Audio booth • Pedro and colleague of Gtek

• The team at disguise

• The Christie stand

• The Steam Guys team

RCF presented its three new RDNet compatible vertical steerable array models, which improves quality for highly reverberant space, and its MR 50 / MR 40 bass reflex loudspeakers for audiovisual monitoring and reliable fixed installations. Renewed Vision announced a significant new software update for the third generation of its ProVideoPlayer (PVP3) multi-function media server. Renkus-Heinz presented its IC-Live X Series, the next generation of its award-winning, high-powered IC-Live steerable arrays. With greater power density, higher output, simple integrated hardware, and a unique coaxial driver arrangement, the IC-Live X will bring a new level of flexibility for integrators, contractors, and production houses. RGBlink hosted a number of training sessions

throughout the show, as well as introducing its new trailer showcasing video processing solutions. ROE launched its new, ground-breaking LED platform, Sapphire, a narrow pixel pitch LED screen with a separate supporting frame, which can be combined in expanded configurations as an alternative to the traditional rectangle. Ross Video showcased its Lightning Control System, a fully integrated switcher, graphics and camera control with intuitive interface ideal for single operator use. RUSHWORKS announced its PTX Universal PanTilt Head at this year’s InfoComm, PTX was seen in action paired with the Blackmagic Design Micro Studio Camera 4K. Sennheiser previewed the next generation of its innovative ceiling microphone, TeamConnect

• The Enco team

• mondo*dr’s Jamie with Steph of Sound Marketing

• Callum and Rob of Void Acoustics

• A successful ladies night hosted by Margie of Linea Research and mondo*dr’s Laura • The Barco stand

• Julie and colleagues of Community

• The Adamson stand

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• The Global Truss stand

• James and Kevin of Peavey

• The Harman Professional Solutions stand

Ceiling 2. The ceiling array microphone offered superior audio quality for voice and video conferences thanks to its automatic adaptive beam forming technology. Solid State Logic announced the release of its L100 live console - the newest member of the SSL Live console range. L100 provides a physically smaller premium solution for customers who prioritise outstanding sonic performance in space restricted installations, for sub-mix positions or corporate production. Symetrix introduced its Radius Series, Radius NX, which serves huddle rooms, large conferencing environments, courtrooms, and distance learning halls. Tempest demonstrated its latest enhanced projector enclosure line-up with its G4 range at InfoComm, providing the ultimate in projector protection, and offering reduced design, build and delivery times for customers. Visionary Solutions demonstrated it has integrated a host of new features to its PacketAV Matrix product line, QOS support and real-time analytics were just a few new features integrated into PacketAV’s already robust feature set. VITEC showcased its new, award-winning video wall capability for EZ TV, the company’s market leading and broadcast-grade IPTV and digital signage platform, as well as its expanded HEVC ecosystem.

VUE announced its e-3151 and e-352 full range nano loudspeakers, along with its low profile es-269 ACM subwoofer. In addition, VUE hosted a number of virtual experiences to support its new products. XTA showcased one of its latest products, AudioCore: Amped Edition, providing fast comprehensive access to DPA and APA amplifiers, as well as MC² Delta Series DSP models. Waves Audio displayed its Waves TRACT loudspeaker correction, a powerful corrective EQ and system time alignment tool for live PA systems or studio environments. In addition, it also exhibited its acclaimed Waves eMotion LV1 mixer, a revolutionary live digital mixing console that provides real-time audio mixing for front-of-house, monitor and broadcast engineers. WORK PRO AUDIO unveiled the SoundNut range, a new series of stylish, high-powered pendant loudspeakers for installation applications. Yamaha launched its new VXL1-16P Dante-enabled, Power over Ethernet (PoE) loudspeaker, which is designed to bring high quality, easily installed and controlled sound to conference rooms, boardrooms and other meeting spaces in the corporate installation market.

InfoComm returns to Orange County Convention Center in Orlando next year on 12-14 June. For more information, go to: www.infocommshow.org

• Robin presenting a Martin Audio and Astro Spatial demo

• The Music & Lights stand

• The Roland booth

• The Visionary Solutions stand

• Guy of Bosch

• The Linea Research guys

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