AC North Show 2007
This year’s A.C. Lighting North Tradeshow is moving to a new purpose-built exhibition hall with 50% more space to facilitate an expanded exhibitor line-up and rising attendance levels.
The event takes place on 1st and 2nd May in the new Hall 2 at the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds, which is adjacent to the original location and now the city’s largest exhibition venue.
As well as accommodating the show’s expansion plans, the improved facilities also enable the organisers to provide the main exhibition, complementary theatre seminars programme and buffet lunch with a bar and dining area all within the same hall.
The A.C. North Show has become an essential industry event for buyers in the Midlands, the North of England and Scotland due to providing these regions with a dedicated, definitive showcase of today’s entertainment technology market.
Visitors will again have a unique opportunity to go behind the scenes on, and discuss the production of, some of the most innovative entertainment projects with today’s leading industry experts in this year’s free guest speaker seminars programme.
Exhibitors will include an even wider range of theatre, concert, film and TV lighting, audio and associated equipment suppliers from A.C. Lighting’s large stockholding of leading entertainment technology brands, and representation from many of the key industry associations and publications.
Jonathan Walters, A.C. Lighting’s Northern Sales Director commented: “We are really excited about moving to this brand new venue, as it provides us with even better facilities for demonstrating the latest entertainment technologies and the opportunity to invite even more exhibitors. I’m confident that this year’s event will continue to position the A.C. Lighting North Tradeshow as the definitive industry showcase for the North of England.”
Entry to the show, including seminars and a buffet lunch, is free for registered visitors. For further information about the tradeshow and to register for your free entry tickets, please call A.C. Lighting Ltd on 0113 255 7666 or go to the A.C. Lighting Website to register online.
UK tradeshow launches/previews confirmed at time of publication include:
Lighting & Staging
Anytronics Anyscene 2 advanced DMX scene recall unit, Symphony elegant colour changing fluorescent light fixtures & Anylight Contemporary range of stylish outstation panels.
CCT Lighting Starlette Softlight luminaire.
Chroma-Q Color Web 125 LED visual effects display matrix.
DTS D30 & D150 LED projectors, Delta B & S fixed installation LED colour changers, Delta F & R moving head LED colour changers, XR8 spot, XR8 wash & XR9 spot moving head fixtures.
ETC EOS lighting control range & SmartFade ML with moving light control.
Hall Stage Thern Inc. CW Hoist manual hoist with drill drive and safety lock.
Hippotizer V3 media server with Version 3 software.
Luminex ethernet-DMX8 gateway truss mounted & ethernet gigabit switch truss mounted.
LSC Redback 6 channel dimmer rack.
Osram Baby SharXS® HTI®’s 250W-575W metal halide lamps range.
Roscolab LitePad slim and compact LED lighting panel.
Spotlight Mini LED RGB DMX fixtures.
Strand Light Palette Classic, Light Palette VL, Palette Classic & Palette Preset 32/64 lighting consoles.
Zero 88 Leapfrog 48 & 96 lighting consoles.
Audio & Visual
D&M Professional: Denon DN-C640 networkable CD Player with instant start and DN-A7100 7.1 AV Surround Preamplifier.
Harman Pro UK: JBL compact, medium-format Control 200 speaker range, VRX ‘constant curvature’ line array two-way speaker with eight-inch woofer & 15-inch subwoofer, & AKG IVM4 wireless in-ear monitoring system.
Kling & Freitag CD24 & CD44 digital system processors with analogue line sense. KV2 Audio EX active powered range & ES series compact active system.
Martin Audio MA4.8Q, 4 x 1200w, high performance amplifier with networkability, C4.8T 2 way 4” + 0.8”, C6.8T 2 way 6” + 0.8”, & C8.1T 2 way 8” + 1” ceiling loudspeakers, Wavefront Architectural W8MLi 3 way mini install line array enclosure.
Sennheiser: D.A.S. SLA 2600, 3400 & 4000 switching power amplifier & PowerPro PS 200, 400, 800 & 1400 amplifier range.
Tannoy Designer Install premium performance surface mount & weather resistant loudspeakers.
Other recently launched products appearing at the show include:
Andolite NorLight commercial, industrial and bespoke lighting range.
Audio-Technica Smartmixer ATMX381automatic eight switchable channel smart mixer, 700 Series ATW-701 UHF true diversity beltpack frequency scanning system, & ATW-702 UHF true diversity handheld frequency scanning system.
D&M Professional: Marantz CDR310 transportable HD/CD recorder.
ETC Congo jr congo-line console.
Harman Pro UK: JBL Control 300 speaker range.
High End Systems Axon rack mount digital media server powered by DL.2 graphics engine.
Jands Vista S3 console & Vista Application lighting control software.
Lee Filters 700 series 7 new colour editions.
Le Maitre MVS (Multi Venue System) hazer & Fake Flame.
Luminex ethernet-DMX8 gateway, ethernet-DMX2 box gateway, ethernet-DMX2 wall mount gateway, ethernet-DMX2 wifi gateway, splitter DMX 1.5 opto-isolated RDM, splitter DMX 2.10 opto-isolated RDM, ethernet gigabit switch with ethercon, ethernet switch with redundancy system and Luminet V.1 monitoring software.
Manfrotto Avenger CrossPole flexible lighting hanging system.
Martin LC2140 bright semi-transparent LED curtain & Stage Bar 54S bright, high efficiency LED pixel bar.
Osram DRAGONpuck® DP3W3865, DP3-W3-865 White 6500K high output LEDs, DRAGONeye® high output LED in an IP65 housing, DRAGONtape® 6 series connected high output LEDs on flexible substrate.
Projected Image Digital: Catalyst Version 4 & Pixel MAD media servers, & Element Labs Versa range.
Sanyo CE42LM4WPR-E weatherproof 42” flat panel for outdoor digital signage.
Sennheiser: Net One Box network interface & software for up to ten radio mic receivers, 2020D digital 6 channel tour guide system, SDC 8200 digital conference, voting & interpretation system, Rane C4 2u, 4 channel digital compressor/limiter/gate, & G4 2u, 4 channel digital quad/gate/ducker/expander. Spotlight Vedette 12 H CC compact followspot.
Tannoy Eyeball (CMS 401) full bandwidth ceiling monitor system & Power V active sound reinforcement loudspeakers.
Yamaha LS9 digital mixing consoles, Tn Series high powered amplifiers & DME Satellites Ethersound audio distribution devices.
Zero 88 Cable Test indispensable, easy to use DMX tool.
The list of exhibitors/brands confirmed at time of publication includes:
Lighting & Staging
ADB, Andolite, Anytronics, Avolites, CCT Lighting, Ceenorm (Bals, Haupa & Hensel) Chroma-Q, City Theatrical, Complete Light & Sound Services, Compulite, Doughty Engineering, DTS, ELC Lighting, ETC, Fibre Optic Systems, Flightcase UK, GE Lighting, Green Hippo, Hall Stage, High End, Jands, LDDE, Lee Filters, Le Maitre, Le Mark, Litec, Look Solutions, LSC, Luminex, Manfrotto (including Avenger), Martin Professional (including Martin & Jem), Multitex Engineering, Neutrik, Osram, Outboard, Philips, Projected Image Digital, Pulsar, Radical Lighting, Robe, Robert Juliat, Roscolab, Selecon, Spectralite, Spotlight, Strand, Total Fabrications, Tourflex, Tourmate, Vari*Lite, Wireless Solutions, WYSIWYG, Zarges & Zero 88.
Audio & Visual
Allen & Heath, Audio Technica (including Sabine & True Systems), Community, D&M Professional (Denon, Marantz & Boston Acoustics), Fuzion (including Nexo, Australian Monitor, Work, Littlite, Cameo, Symetrix & T&M), Harman Pro UK (AKG, BSS, DBX, Crown, JBL, Lexicon & Soundcraft), Kelsey (including Light Viper & Furman), Kling & Freitag, KV2 Audio (including Vieta Pro), Martin Audio, RCF, Sanyo, Sennheiser (including Apart, D.A.S., Netcira, Neumann, Rane & Rycote), Shure Distribution (including Shure, Phonic, QSC & Sound Devices) Shuttlesound (Electro Voice, Midas & Klark Teknik), Tannoy & Yamaha Professional.
Leading entertainment technology magazines ET Now, Lighting & Sound International and Mondiale group (publisher of Total Production, Mondo Arc & Dr and Night titles) will also be attending the show, as well as leading industry associations PLASA, ALD, ABTT and PSA.
