Yorkville's A.4.4 Power Amp

In its latest addition to its AudioPro line, Yorkville Sound gives you the A4.4 power amp. The A4.4 combines an aluminum chassis and power-factor-corrected supply to give you a 26-pound power amp. The A4.4 laundry list of features include “Ultra-Quiet” front-to-back fan cooling, high pass filter, protection circuitry, ground lift switch, defeatable limiter, stereo/mono/bridge switch, XLR and ¼-inch balanced inputs and Speakon and binding post outputs. According to the company, Yorkville covers, even if you break it, its A4.4 with a two-year transferable warranty.
Yorkville Sound Inc.
4625 Witmer Industrial Estate
Niagara Falls, NY 14305
(716) 297-2920
www.yorkville.com

Le Maitre Introduces Le Flame

From Le Maitre comes Le Flame, a lighting fixture designed to make you feel like you’re in the middle of a five-alarm fire. It has a 115-volt AC fan set at constant speed, which blows two silk pieces upward to simulate a real flame effect. Three MR 11 20-watt deco halogen bulbs light the silk, using two gel colors, two orange and one blue. Le Maitre suggests that the effect be placed in one of its two bowl fixtures.
Le Maitre Special Effects
1915 Dove Street
Port Huron, MI 48060
(519)659-7972
www.lemaitrefx.com

PAS' Amp Racks

Professional Audio Systems new Baltic birch amp racks are made for both portable and permanent installations. The portable models have two handles per side, front and rear rails and lids, removable caster pallets with wheels and your choice of latchkey or twist-lock lid fasteners. Striving to suit needs of every size, the racks come in 8-, 12- and 16-space portable models. However, if you’re looking to stack your permanent installs, these versions come standard with front rails only and don’t give you handles or lids. And you can pick your color as all versions are available with a black or white textured paint finish, unfinished or with Tour Tuff finish.
PAS
2270 Cosmos Court
Carlsbad, CA 92009
(760) 431-9924

Rane's MP 44

Bundled into a 5U chassis, Rane Corporation’s MP 44 is a four-bus slide fader-style mixer designed to make the DJ, club owner and sound system installer smile. For the DJ, the mixer has a three-band Accelerated Slope full cut tone controls on each bus, FlexFX flexible effects loop, and an A-side, B-side or Post crossfader assign on each input bus. It also has VCAs, says Rane, on the crossfader and channel fader as well as two automatic crossfader CD triggers. For the club owner, the MP 44 has a remote DC master level volume control, so the club owner has the final say over just how loud the party gets. And for the installer, Rane’s added a master limiter on the booth and master outs, an automatic emergency page input and a remote DC master level control.
Rane Corporation
10802 47th Avenue West
Mukilteo, WA 98275-5098
(425) 355-6000
www.rane.com

Abstracts VR8
Abstract’s silver VR8 and VR8R scanners are DMX-controlled lighting fixtures that have a MBI 150 arc lamp and 110-208V/60Hz (you pick) voltage. Using 2.5 amps at 110V, both lamps have three-pin XLR input and are cooled by 12V DC fans. The VR8 has a shuttered remote (via gobo wheel) blackout and 11 (plus white) fixed gobos with 10 colors, in addition to white and multicolor. The VR8R has the same amount of colors but comes with seven rotating colors and an independent strobe flash shutter.
Abstract/Tracoman
3001 N. 29th Avenue
Hollywood, FL 33020
(954) 929-5225
www.tracoman.com

High End Gets Internal
High End Systems wants you to know about its latest software program, Internal Effects. The program controls its line of automated lighting products, which means it lets you choose from a variety of pan and tilt movements. Its Macro channel supports and controls the selection of Internal Effects. After you finish downloading your version from High End’s website, your existing Macro channel is turned into the Internal Effects feature. Now you’re set to start picking a pan, tilt or circular effect for pan and tilt based on the last programmed position of the product. This, according to High End, lets you create a ton of different automated movements from one preset position. But what about when you’re in the middle of changing from one preset position to another? Never fear, you can still run the program. And for those of you who own lighting desks, you too can use Internal Effects. The program has a default change rate of 2.5 seconds between movements but if that’s not the speed you’re looking for, Internal Effects lets you change the rate using the M-Speed channel. High End Systems plans to include Internal Effects with its Technobeam, Studio Color, Studio Spot and Studio Beam lighting fixtures.
High End Systems
2217 West Braker Lane
Austin, Texas 78758
(512) 836.2242
www.highend.com

HHB's Portadisc

Recording just got a little easier, and smaller, with Portadisc, HHB’s MiniDisc portable recorder. Housed in a 1.2mm steel chassis, the recorder weighs in at four pounds, seven ounces. Its five user setups let you configure input sources, microphone attenuation, limiting and bass roll-off, headphone monitoring formats, time and date stamp formats, peak hold metering and phantom power. Designed with an intuitive menu system, the Portadisc also features a built-in monitoring speaker and backup microphone. A memory buffer is designed to give you glitch-free recording on the move and a six-second, pre-record buffer makes it so you never miss the start of a take. To monitor environmental noise, the Portadisc gives you an auto start/cut function with an adjustable threshold. Rounding out the list is automatic gain control, one-touch recording, lockable record level and key hold. The Portadisc comes with 8 x AA niMH batteries, an AC adapter/charger, soft case, carrying strap, an HHB MD80 MiniDisc and the all-important instruction book.
HHB Communications USA
1410 Centinela Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90025
(310) 319-3111
www.hhbusa.com

Portable TASCAM

When the muse strikes, TASCAM wants to spare you from desperately scrambling to hum something into the nearest tape recorder. TASCAM’s 788 Portastudio is designed to let you get your ideas down right away on to hard disk with uncompressed 24-bit digital audio resolution. With 250 virtual tracks so you can do as many takes as you’d like, the 788 can be combined into an eight-track multitrack master. Random access operation and non-destructive digital editing tools let you cut, copy and paste your song and, with 999 levels of undo/redo, gives you plenty of second chances. After you get it down perfectly, send your mix through the rear panel SCSI port to a CD burner and wow all your friends with your talent. Now for the specifics: With a little tweaking, many of the 788’s presets are designed to sound just like guitar tones. All of the single and multieffects configurations can be completely adjusted to suit your tastes. Six 0.25-inch jacks, made up of four mic/line balanced and two unbalanced line, give you your routing inputs. Individual connectors including stereo outputs let you mix down while mono outputs are designed so you can send audio to your speakers. MIDI in and out jacks let you sync your audio tracks to synthesizer and software-based sequencers that use MIDI Time Code, MIDI Machine Control and MIDI Clock. An S/PDIF digital output lets you send your audio to CD and DAT recorders for two track masters. Pre-and post fader effects and aux sends, TASCAM wants you to know, are made easier by the custom backlit LCD screen.
TASCAM
7733 Telegraph Road
Montebello, CA 90640
(323) 726-0303
www.tascam.com

QSC's PowerLight 2A

QSC brings to you the “A” version of its PowerLight 2 Series power amps. The “A” models have the same power points of the line’s base models, the PL 218, PL 224, PL 230 and PL 236, but also give you on-board analog signal processing, switchable gain sensitivities and adjustable output power limiters. The amps have a power range of 900 watts to 1850 watts per channel at 2 ohms. The PowerLight 2 Series has PowerWave switching technology, designed to boost your overall sonic quality while keeping the amps cool along with built-in, defeatable input clip limiters and selectable low-frequency roll-off filters. Other features like a detachable “locking” IEC power cable and a standard Data Port, so you can interface with QSControl, and a DSP-3 module are also included.
QSC Audio
1675 MacArthur Boulevard
Costa Mesa, CA 92626
(714) 754-6175
www.qscaudio.com

Chauvet's Latest


Chauvet’s Voyager is a DMX-512 scanner that includes a long life lamp rated at 2,000 hours. Available with stand-alone or with built in programs, itss combined color/gobo wheel has nine colors and 14 gobos. The Voyager can pan 180 degrees and tilt 85. It’s controllable through a CH-522, Colortrack II Easy Controller, DMX-40, Control Center, CX-5, Universal DMX controller or ShowXpress computer-based lighting design software. The Defiant is a DMX-512 color changer that gives you seven dichroic colors plus white and is dimmable. It has auto-focus and a moveable lens that acts as a manual iris. The Defiant is linkable and also lets you choose between stand-alone and built-in programs. The Gyro is designed with a yoke to make it easy for you to install on the floor or ceiling, says Chauvet. The unit gives you six DMX channels: color, gobo, pan, tilt, shutter and rotation speed and comes with separate, but interchangeable, color and gobo wheels designed to send your creative mind reeling with possibilities. The fixture comes with an ARC150 lamp and is also controllable through DMX-40 control center, the CX-5 universal DMX controller and ShowXpress. So what’s this ShowXpress, you ask? It’s Chauvet’s computer controlled 512-channel DMX program. The pro-gram’s Fixture Builder lets you use the supplied library of fixtures or create your own automated fixture combination with the number icons and DMX levels. Its Scene Builder lets you create scenes, each with 60 steps. Multiple lights can be programmed simultaneously and with a mouse click, you can insert curves, circles, specific colors and gobos. The Show Builder function puts your scenes together to give you quick shows or, if you’re struck by sudden inspiration, lets you store a scene in the quick access area and run it “on-the-fly.” The shows can run on their own or with synchronized wave files, CD and MIDI. The stand-alone DMX interface can run up to eight scenes.
Chauvet Lighting
3000 N. 29th Court
Hollywood, FL 33020
(800) 762-1084
www.chauvetlighting.com