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from UK distributor Sound Technology Ltd

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SEPTEMBER 2019

TECHNOLOGY

New MAC Allure on National Theatre’s River Stage Photo: © Stephanie Claire

The National Theatre’s River Stage is an annual free festival that runs throughout the summer on London’s South Bank. Featuring leading arts and performance companies, the festival celebrates the best of British and International culture, drag artists and London’s green and blue spaces, including the River Thames.

MAC Allure Wash PC now shipping t

For this year’s season, the River Stage has benefitted from unique dynamic lighting effects thanks to Martin’s new MAC Allure Profile lighting fixtures.

MAC Allure Profile is also the first lighting fixture incorporating Martin’s P3 control.

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New ERA 300 on tour with Newton Faulkner

MAC Encore for Matilda

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NEW PRODUCT

New Martin ERA 300 Profile on tour with Newton Faulkner

Martin Dudley of Martin’s Lights Ltd has invested in the new Martin

by HARMAN ERA 300 Profile, with six units immediately in action on the Newton Faulkner tour.

Supplying lighting design and lighting equipment hire services, Martin’s Lights Ltd recently celebrated its 25th birthday. Current and past clients of owner Martin Dudley include Newton Faulkner with whom he has been working with for 13 years, James Morrison (as lighting director for lighting designer Cate Carter), Heaven 17, Gilbert O’Sullivan, Magazine, The Specials and many more.

Having owned Martin fixtures a very long way back in the “DJ Series” days of Magic Moons, Starflashes and Jem smoke machines, and of course experience of the countless Martin fixtures in the lighting rigs of venues and festivals, the brand new ERA 300 Profile modern day LED successor to the MAC 250 recently caught his attention.

Martin Dudley explains, “I had been looking specifically for a colour-mixing moving spot fixture for a little

while that would suit the scale and level of touring that we regularly do, so I was immediately interested when I saw the ERA 300 announced. The other features - two gobo wheels, colour wheel, zoom, iris and prism, also caught my eye.”

The ERA 300 Profile is a compact LED moving head, designed to be easy to handle and rig, and take up less truck space. It includes professional features, including CMY colour mixing, 1:2 zoom and 9,500 lumens of output.

Since this is Newton Faulkner’s “Very Best Of...” tour, Martin Dudley has been revisiting some of their favourite lighting looks from Newton’s shows over the last 13 years. The six ERAs are floor/box-mounted in a row upstage, where previously larger fixtures would have been used, and the output of the extremely compact ERA 300 Profile is clearly impressing.

We’re only three shows into the tour so far, but on yesterday’s show at the London Palladium, which has a large lighting system of Martin Aura XBs and Quantum Profiles amongst other fixtures, the ERAs performed very well in terms of comparative brightness.

The gobos in the ERAs also nicely matched those in the Quantums!”

In fact Martin Dudley concludes, “I suspect I’ll be using them on pretty much every tour where I need a small moving spot from now on, I can’t see that I’m going to be touring any venues where they won’t be powerful enough to do the job.” soundte.ch/faulkner-era300

“The ERAs have allowed us to have the light output of some of the bigger fixtures we’ve used in the past, but taking up very little space in a tour bus trailer.

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CASE STUDY

Martin MAC Encores make their mark on tour with Matilda The Musical

Hawthorn supplies Hugh Vanstone and Chris Hirst with “bright, virtually maintenance free” Martin LED inventory

Associate lighting designer Chris Hirst has been working alongside original LD Hugh Vanstone, and with the latter’s consent, has developed a more LED-centric inventory, scaling down the number of fixtures and making it easier for him, and production technician Fraser Hall to tour with.

“After they proved a successful LED replacement to the Viper we were sufficiently confident to replace our arc lamps with Encores, and this included adding the MAC Encore Wash to the show for the first time. Both units were a huge success.” Chris Hirst Read full story: soundte.ch/matilda Photo courtesy of GWB Entertainment

CASE STUDY

Martin MAC Encores strike a chord on Captain Corelli’s Mandolin

White Light supplies MAC Encores and MAC Aura XBs for critically acclaimed UK tour and West End season.

“These [MAC Encore Performance CLDs] gave us maximum punch for cold scenes and images of warfare ... However, their excellent CTO filters also gave us excellent warm looks at slightly lower intensity.” LD Malcom Rippeth

The MAC Encore’s framing shutters provided him with good edge options, and according to the LD one of the key attributes of the fixture were the water effects, derived from a combination of gobo and animation, along with the wide gamut of colours.

Read full story: soundte.ch/mandolin Photo: Marc Brenner

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Martin’s new MAC Allure™ Profile in stock There is nothing quite like the Martin MAC Allure Profile.

This is the first fully-featured moving head to combine a proprietary, solid state RGBW additive colour mixing engine, a 7-segment pixelated beam and onboard P3 and DMX controllability that lets users swiftly alternate or mix between control protocols. The overall feature set further includes dimmer, strobe, colour mixing, gobos, iris, prism, zoom, focus, pan and tilt.

Another first, the MAC Allure Profile includes a pixelated beam divided into seven individually-controlled, full colour segments (pixels). This gives lighting designers new options for creativity and frees them to expand in directions they previously may have never considered. The MAC Allure Profile was also designed for extreme user-friendliness with a built-in FX engine for P3 and DMX controllability that lets users swiftly alternate or mix between control protocols.

“Until now, there hasn’t been a truly efficient way to integrate solid state (LED) colour mixing into profile fixtures,” said Markus Kluesener, HARMAN Professional Solutions Stage Lighting Product Manager. “We decided to address this need head on and asked our engineers to come up with a game changer. They came through with an all-new, proprietary, colour-mixing light engine that exceeded our expectations for efficiency.”

MAC Allure adds “magical” effects to National Theatre’s River Stage

“I love the multiple split colours that feature in the beam and give the unit a distinctive look on the stage. When they light the haze above the audience it looks quite magical and alive!”

Paul Hornsby, National Theatre

For this year’s season, the River Stage has benefitted from unique dynamic lighting effects thanks to Martin’s new MAC Allure Profile lighting fixtures.

MAC Allure Profile is also the first lighting fixture incorporating Martin’s P3 control.

“We have 12 on the River Stage this year. With a good zoom, essential when the rig is at 3 metres, and the unique effects that the Allure has built-in, it gives the stage a look we have not been able to achieve in previous years.“ Huw Llewellyn, LD, River Stage 2019 Read full story: soundte.ch/riverstage Photo: © Stephanie Claire

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MAC Allure Wash PC now shipping Shipping now, the Martin MAC Allure Wash PC has expanded the MAC Allure family.

The washlight variant of the MAC Allure Profile, features a novel RGBW light engine with unique 7-segmented beam control. With instant colour control and pixelated beam, the MAC Allure Wash PC enables dynamic diffused projection and mid-air effects, previously not possible.

Additional features that make the MAC Allure Wash PC ideal for a range of needs are its ability to be broadcast safe with LED drivers that run the light engine at high and precise refresh rates, securing no flicker or banding on any broadcast application.

It also features a compact 17.6 kg design that fits nicely into smaller sets and spaces, reducing truss loading constraint concerns.

Similar to the MAC Allure Profile, the MAC Allure Wash PC supports the unique performance lighting needs of rental and install clients, including concert/touring, TV shows, corporate, houses of worship, concert venues, nightclubs, and cruise ships.

“When we launched the MAC Allure Profile, our lead-off was always ‘There’s nothing quite like it.’ The MAC Allure Wash PC goes even further to bring previously unavailable features to the market,” said Markus Kluesener, HARMAN Professional Solutions Lighting Product Manager.

“Not only is it part of the first product family to combine a proprietary, solid state RGBW additive color mixing engine and 7-segment pixelated beam but it is now the first washlight out there to include integrated onboard P3 control, that works in addition to industry standard controls such as DMX, Art-Net and sACN.”

“Despite its very innovative feature set, enabling many new and creative possibilities, the MAC Allure Wash PC is designed to not overload the user with unnecessary parameters,” said Peter Skytte, HARMAN Professional Solutions Tour Lighting Manager. “It’s a truly unique workhorse that packs

a lot of potential and creative possibilities into an especially compact design.”

The MAC Allure Wash PC is shipping now in the UK.

New MAC Allure / VDO Atomic Dot / P3 Demo System

P3 Software v5 Update Now Available for Download

To showcase the new MAC Allure and VDO Atomic Dot fixtures we have created a mobile demo rig, programmed by LD Hayden Borgars.

Martin has released a major software update for the P3 System Controller.

Version 5.0.0 brings significant new functionalities to Martin’s range of P3 System Controllers, consisting of the P3-050, P3-100, P3-150, P3-200, P3-300 and P3-PC.

The system demonstrates the fixtures operating in standard DMX mode or, via a simple command, pixel mapping via Martin’s P3 visual control protocol.

Featuring MAC Allure Profiles, VDO Atomic Dot CLD and WRM variants and VDO Sceptron, the demo system will be part of a series of showcases around the UK in the coming months.

For more information please call 01462 480000 and visit www.soundtech.co.uk/martinpro

Moving heads and lighting fixtures such as the Martin MAC Allure and VDO Atomic Dot families can now be

driven via the P3 System Controller.

With the P3 System Controller merging video-data from a media server with DMX controls from a lighting desk and sending these over one single P3 network to the fixtures. The fixtures feature P3 daisy-chain functionality with low latency and failsafe bypass, making cabling simple and safe.

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NOW SHIPPING

New Martin ELP LED Ellipsoid fixtures now shipping New Martin ELP WW (Warm White) and ELP CL (Colour) offer superior optics and colour rendering, class-leading output and unparalleled ease-of-use FOUR LENS TUBE CONFIGURATIONS AND SUPPORT FOR 3RD-PARTY LENS TUBES

PUSH BUTTON TO FAST FOCUS AT FULL BRIGHTNESS WITH NO DATA

FINE FOCUS GEAR BASED ADJUSTMENT

TILT KNOB POSITIONED TO CLEAR FRAMING SHUTTERS ADVANCED OPTICS ENGINEERED IN DENMARK

INDUSTRY-STANDARD GEL AND GOBO COMPATIBILITY

HARMAN Professional Solutions, the global leader in audio, video, lighting and control systems, has announced new Martin ELP LED ellipsoid fixtures.

Martin ELP fixtures are available in two versions: ELP WW (Warm White) offers industry-leading colour rendering and brightness, while ELP CL (Colour) delivers rich, saturated colours and class-leading output. ELP fixtures feature industry-first advances in lighting functionality, including the highly efficient gear-based Fine Focus adjustment knob, and the Fast Focus feature which allows the fixture to be focused without data flow.

ELP also offers 16-bit dimming with four selectable curves and 26 colour presets that match industry-standard colour filters. ELP fixtures can be configured with Martin lens tubes in 19, 26, 36 and 50-degree beam angles as well as third-party lens tubes.

FOUR-BLADE MANUAL FRAMING-SHUTTERS

ELP fixtures offer exceptional flexibility and accept a wide variety of industry standard ellipsoidal accessories including standard sized Gobos holders, gobo rotators, effects wheels, existing lens tubes and many more.

Featuring optic assemblies designed in Denmark by the team behind MAC Encore, ELP is designed to maximize efficiency and deliver a flat field of illumination for smoother blending and mixing between fixtures. The ELP WW delivers 7,000 lumens of output and an industry-leading 97 CRI at 3000K colour temperature, for the truest colour representation on any surface.

The ELP CL fixture offers an impressive 6,900 lumens and a CRI of 85 in High Output mode, and 5,900 lumens and 90 CRI in High Quality mode, with a colour temperature of 6,000K(open white). Both models offer flicker-free operation for

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consistent light output—on and off camera. ELP combines legendary Martin quality with a suite of next-generation features to deliver new levels of performance, functionality and ease-of-use. Innovative gear-driven Fine Focus adjustment allows for precise, nuanced control, and enables users to lock focus exactly where they want it, instantly.

The innovative Fast Focus feature brings the fixture to full output for 60 seconds simply by holding the Enter button for five seconds, enabling users to focus the fixture during set up without data. Halation Colour correction removes atypical blue and brown halos when using Martin lens tubes. ELP fixtures also offer 16-bit dimming with four selectable curves. Additionally, tilt knobs are placed out of the way of framing shutters, to allow quick, easy position adjustments.

Find out more at bit.ly/martin-elp

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New Martin VDO Atomic Dots now shipping Available in WRM (2700K) and CLD (5700K) colour temperature variants, VDO Atomic Dots combine a compact strobe, small blinder, video-pixel and small spotlight.

By combining a video-controlled Aura backlight and a bright strobe/blinder dot in one fixture, lighting designers are empowered with greater creative potential to make a bigger impact with audiences than ever before.

The fixtures’ compact design also gives designers the ability to place VDO Atomic Dots just about anywhere and deploy them in larger quantities.

Integrated support for P3, DMX, Art-Net and sACN eliminates the need for additional interface boxes and onboard P3 eases pixel mapping and using the product as a video controlled strobe.

Smart interlocking mechanics mean fixtures can be combined to create battens, arrays and creative shapes. A hybrid power and data cable carries all power and data for the fixtures, allowing them to be daisy-chained very easily in large quantities.

An industry-standard PAR30 sized front accessory holder can hold a diffuser to widen the beam angle of the fixtures, or standard barn doors.

VDO Atomic Dots are ideal for rental customers and lighting designers working in concert/touring and TV show sets as well as supporting corporate and nightclub clients, and are available now.

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HARMAN Professional Solutions launched its Martin

by HARMAN Light a London Landmark competition, open to both student and professional UK lighting designers, where six finalists’ custom gobo designs will be revealed on the façade of London’s iconic National Theatre.

With a focus surrounding creative gobo projection, the finalists’ will be chosen by a panel of distinguished industry judges as finalists to light the National Theatre during a Martin industry event on 6th November 2019. Paule Constable, Associate Director of the National Theatre, and Vicki Mortimer,

renowned Theatre Designer and winner of accolade awards, will select the overall winner on the event night.

For more information visit lightalondonlandmark.com

Our 4000 sq metre demo facility at our Hertfordshire head office is currently being upgraded, with over 200 Martin fixtures being installed for demo and evaluation.

Due to open in October we looking forward to welcoming you very soon!

Martin is distributed in the UK by HARMAN Professional distributor Sound Technology Ltd. For further information, sales, product support, demonstrations, spares and servicing please call our lighting division on 01462 480000.

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