A great amount of expectation has been generated for this years’ Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) show, which will be held at the RAI Convention Centre in Amsterdam in the Netherlands from February 3rd to 5th and the buzz about the show is as much from within the industry as it is from the organiser.

Cedia and Infocomm are predicting that this year’s show will smash previous records and bring in more than 25,000 visitors. Over 80,000 euros has been spent on getting people to the show and with over 30 per cent more exhibition space than last year, ISE is certainly one of the fastest growing events in the pro audio industry. The industry has taken note of the show’s popularity, as there is a 30 per cent lift on exhibitors compared to 2008.

Alcons Audio
Alcons Audio will display a a slew of new products on booth 1I124. The most recent addition to its line of ribbon driver speaker technology is a new medium output, compact, three-way sound system for cinema and A/V sound reproduction, the CR1.

Designed for cinema theatres, screening rooms, boardrooms, dubbing stages, and use within surround sound recording and home theatres, CR1 features an ultra-shallow MDF enclosure design of only 18cm/7-inches that provides for very flexible mounting in small spaces behind the screen. It can be stacked, wall-mounted, or even flown, as it weighs 29.8kg / 65.6lb.

The company will also be showing the new LR7, its new passive two-way line-source loudspeaker system. Designed for permanent and portable installations, its frequency response is from 74Hz (-3dB) to over 20kHz. Integrated pro-ribbon technology gives the speaker non-compressed, 1:1 high-output sound reproduction.

Another featured product will be the QR36 pro-ribbon column array system. The Q-series scalable ribbon-array columns were developed as a ‘cross-over product’ as it incorporates the intuitive design of a traditional point-source loudspeaker with the throw and control of a J-curved line-array system. The series has been designed to provide the proper coverage and ultimate intelligibility over longer distances in acoustically challenging environments.

Lab.gruppen
Lab.gruppen will show its recent addition to the Powered Loudspeaker Management (PLM) series, the PLM 14000, on booth 10I111. The new amplifier builds on the success of the PLM 10000Q while providing a two-channel platform optimised for high-power requirements.

The PLM 14000 fetures 7,000W per channel into two Ohms and 4,350W per channel into four Ohms. It uses the Dante networked audio distribution, Dolby Lake drive processing, and load verification along with real-time performance monitoring in a single 2U unit with a unified software controller.

New features of the PLM Series were incorporated in the 14000 to address and fulfil the needs of AV system designers and meet safety code requirements for voice alarm systems. In addition, a complete third-party control protocol allows integration into systems managed by control platforms like Crestron and AMX.

The new four-channel C 88:4 amp will also be on display. Housed in a lightweight (12 kg) 2U chassis, the C 88:44 supplies 8800 Watts of total output. Up to 2200 Watts per discrete channel are available at 2 ohms, 2100 Watts per channel at 4 ohms, while 4600 Watts are available through two bridged output pairs at 4 ohms.

The C 88:4 retains all other features of the C Series, including the patented Class TD amplifier topology, Regulated Switch Mode Power Supply (R.SMPS), Phoenix-type input connectors, screw terminal output connectors, Intercooler heat dissipation and a proprietary Voltage Peak Limiter for optimising each output channel for the connected load.

Innovason
Innovason will be present again at the Technologies for Worship section of the show with its new Eclipse digital mixing console. The board features a brand-new deign scheme, new features, internal effects and onboard multitrack recording with the same high-quality preamps as its previous boards.

Eclipse’s DSP engine provides up to 104 inputs together into 48 mix busses, with the ability to combine up to five remote audio racks to handle 320 inputs. The board also features a SmartPanel with an extra 48 channel strips on 12 knobs in four layers, resulting in a total of 96 faders.

The new Nova GUI software has been created for Eclipse along with built-in effects developed in conjunction with VB Audio. Eclipse’s Ethersound compatibility provides 64 I/O that can extend up to 100 metres.

A new Multitrack Audio Recording System (MARS) option is also available with the board, enabling 64-track digital recording to a hard disk on the back of the console. The hard disk can be removed and used for post show mixing and editing.

Tannoy
Tannoy will be present on stand 5Q86 exhibiting its QFlex range of digital beam-steering array loudspeakers. A new series of self-powered, digitally steerable loudspeaker arrays using ‘beam-steering’ DSP technology, QFlex was designed to help with intelligibility in inherent to highly reverberant surroundings.

Other new products exhibited at the show will be the i9VP vandal-proof speaker system designed with innovative speaker mounting system and the new CVS4 Micro ultra compact, shallow back can ceiling speaker.

DiGiCo
DiGiCo will show its SD7 and SD8 consoles at booth 1L114. Both the SD7 and SD8 incorporate the Tiger SHARC FX engine and Super FPGA technology. While the SD7 has established itself as a leader in large format digital consoles, the smaller SD8 includes many of the same features of the D Series and remote pre amps at a lower price point.

The SD8 features a range of built-in, effects, reverbs, dynamics and output matrix that decrease its footprint. The board’s control surface has 37 motorised faders, dedicated and multi-function control knobs and electronic labelling. It also has a 15-inch, super high resolution, touch sensitive TFT LCD backlit display. A physical fader, knob or backlit, electronically labelled button is either provided as standard for every major mix function, or can be programmed onto one of the user macro buttons. 24 main channel faders and 12 assignable aux and touch sensitive master faders are also available, while each bank of 12 faders can be instantly assigned as channels or masters, which allows all 36 main faders to control inputs. Additionally, any bank of 12 can be assigned to the touch screen for fine-tuning. The SD8 also provides a 12 x 12 output matrix, its 12 busses being additional to the console’s 24 stereo, solo and master busses.

Yamaha
Yamaha Commercial Audio will be on Booth E90, Hall 11, showing its new Installation Series IMX644 rackmount mixer and IPA 8200 eight-channel power amplifier along side its rand of Installation Series loudspeakers, including the tne new IS 112 subwoofer.

The IMX644 rackmount digital mixer features six Euroblock mono inputs (each with individual +48V control), four RCA stereo inputs and an extra optical digital input. The outputs of IMX644 are two pairs of stereo Euroblock connectors, with two channels of mono output. RCA and optical digital outputs can also be used for recording.

Additional software can be used with the mixer by via USB port. The software offers a feedback suppressor and automatic ducking on all mono inputs, six band parametric eq, digital delay and output balance on all outputs. Complete configurations can be saved to any one of 16 instantly-recallable scenes. GPI inputs and outputs are also provided in addition to a RS232-C remote connection, allowing remote control with  third party systems such as AMX or Crestron.

Allen & Heath
Allen & Heath, booth 9D108, will unveil its new digital In/Out expanders for the iDR digital installation series and the new iLive-T Series. The new iDR D-in and iDR D-out units offer expansion options of up to 250m on CAT5 cable using the AES/EBU protocol.

The T Series features the new iLive-T80 or iLive-T112 control surfaces and the I/O iDR-32 or IDR-48 MixRacks, which can be connected via a remote CAT5 cable, which uses the proprietary Audio Control Ethernet (ACE) link. The new range was developed to offer the same features, power and reliability as the iLive range in a lighter, more affordable format.

The T80 and T112 control surfaces offer the same fader strip as other models in the iLive range with four layers per bank and colour assignable channel ID strip. By using Allen & Heath’s 64 x 32 RackExtra DSP mix engine, both of the new T Series models can utilise 64 channels, 32 mixes and eight stereo FX processors. Dualcore DSP technology integration also provides full dynamics, third octave graphic and parametric eq, as well as delay on each channel.

Also on show will be a range of audio mixers from the iDR installation series and PL remote controllers, the iDR0 network mixrack, the GR2 and GR05 analog zone mixers and the Xone:S2 club installation DJ mixer.

Neets
Neets will present three new audio amplifiers at booth 5O91. The new amps include the Amplifier Version 1, with RS-232 control for smaller meeting rooms or classrooms and the Amplifier Version 2, with RS-232 loop through function and Amplifier Version 3 with LAN control and automatic ducking function. All of the new amps are 2 x 25 Watt amp in 8 Ohm and feature short circuit safe speaker outputs and are RS-232 controllable.

Furman
Furman will introduce its new Prestige Series P-1400 AR E export voltage regulator on booth 5P78. The P-1400 AR E employs the company’s True RMS voltage regulation technology, which provides stable voltage to connected equipment, in addition to its Series Multi-Stage Protection (SMP), automatic Extreme Voltage Shutdown (EVS) and Linear Filtering (LiFT) protection and filtering technologies.

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