Prolight + Sound 2014: HARMAN’s Martin Professional Introduces New Lighting Solutions and Offers Daily RUSH™ Giveaway

FRANKFURT, Germany — Underscoring its commitment to providing innovative solutions for lighting designers around the world, HARMAN’s Martin Professional introduced several new lighting solutions, both hardware and software, as well as a offered a daily giveaway of Martin’s popular RUSH™ line, at Prolight + Sound 2014.

Day 1 Highlights

Martin Professional revealed the MAC Quantum Profile™, the latest addition to its new MAC Quantum line. The profile features innovative LED technology and Martin’s proprietary optical designs to deliver super-bright light output. Martin also introduced an expanded family of its proprietary VC-Grids™ and VC-Strips™ family to include 15, 25, 30 and 60 mm pixel pitch fit for architectural installations, stage design, and TV set design.

Additionally, the show’s first day featured the introduction of two new RUSH by Martin LED fixtures—the RUSH MH 5 Profile™ and RUSH DC 1 Aqua™. The RUSH MH 5 features two color wheels, two gobo wheels, and a rotating 3-facet prism, in a compact yet super bright LED profile moving head. The RUSH DC 1 Aqua is a compact and bright LED fixture featuring full electronic dimming, variable manual focus, and five selectable colors to deliver aquatic decoration effects for shows, clubs, and other entertainment venues. Integrated into the Martin stand is an authentic club setting, complete with a DJ and house music, which features the RUSH by Martin line in time-coded shows.

Day 2 Highlights

Garou Blancan, was introduced as the winner of Martin’s annual worldwide Young Lighting Designer Contest at a press conference held by Martin’s Villads Thomsen, Vice President of Global Sales, and Theis Wermuth, Product Application Specialist. They also discussed the process of reviewing the top shows and presented a viewing of Blancan’s winning show design as he accepted the winning trophy.

The second drawing of Martin’s RUSH daily giveaway surprised winner Christoph Mainusch with a RUSH product of his choice. Mainusch works for Munich-based MC-Veranstaltungsdienste, where he provides lighting design services for popular band, Famous Naked Gypus Circus. Mainusch quickly chose the RUSH Multibeam 2™ as his prize.

Martin successfully hosted its annual RUSH event at the prestigous Gibson Club in Frankfurt. The event featured a unique lighting experience provided by Martin’s RUSH Multibeam 2™, RUSH MH 4 Beam™, RUSH PAR 2 RGBW Zoom™ and other members of the RUSH by Martin line.

Additionally, Martin’s state-of-the-art M6 lighting console was honored with the PIPA award for best lighting controller.

For live updates from Martin Professional at Prolight + Sound, please visit: www.facebook.com/MartinProfessional

As a world leader in the creation of dynamic lighting solutions for the entertainment, architectural, and commercial sectors, Martin lighting and video systems are renowned the world over. Martin also offers a range of advanced lighting controllers and media servers, as well as a complete line of smoke machines as a complement to intelligent lighting. Martin operates the industry’s most complete and capable distributor network with local partners in nearly 100 countries. Founded in 1987 and based in Aarhus, Denmark, Martin is the lighting division of global infotainment and audio company HARMAN International Industries. For more information please visit: http://www.martin.com.

HARMAN designs, manufactures, and markets a wide range of infotainment and audio solutions for the automotive, consumer, and professional markets. It is a recognized world leader across its customer segments with premium brands including AKG®, HARMAN Kardon®, Infinity®, JBL®, Lexicon®, and Mark Levinson® and leading-edge connectivity, safety and audio technologies. The Company is admired by audiophiles across multiple generations and supports leading professional entertainers and the venues where they perform. More than 25 million automobiles on the road today are equipped with HARMAN audio and infotainment systems. HARMAN has a workforce of 14,800 people across the Americas, Europe, and Asia and reported sales of $4.7 billion for the last twelve months ended December 31, 2013.

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Feel The RUSH with HARMAN’s Martin Professional At Prolight + Sound 2014

FRANKFURT, Germany — At Prolight + Sound 2014, HARMAN’s Martin Professional will host its annual RUSH event at the Gibson Club in Frankfurt on March 13. In addition to a great night of fun, the venue will showcase the RUSH™ by Martin line, including Martin’s RUSH Multibeam 2™, MH 4 Beam™, and PAR 2 RGBW Zoom™ lighting fixtures.

PL+S attendees can collect their free ticket to the RUSH event by visiting the Martin stand (Hall 9, A93) during show hours. Tickets will be distributed on a first come, first served basis and all event attendees must be at least 18 years of age. Martin will also be giving away a different RUSH by Martin product each day of the show. Attendees can enter for a chance to win at the Martin stand.

The RUSH by Martin line features a comprehensive and affordable range of profile, wash, strobe, beam and pin spot luminaries for DJ and club effects. As a compact moving head for smaller venues, the RUSH MH 4 Beam houses a fixed gobo wheel and color wheel for a multitude of effects, such as dimming, strobe, 6-facet prism, and focus. The RUSH Multibeam 2 is a versatile effect featuring two moveable LED bars each with five individually controlled narrow beams, as well as preprogrammed macros for powerful yet easy effects. The RUSH PAR 2 RGBW Zoom is a bright single-lens LED PAR Can with fully premixed color from 12 RGBW LEDs that offers electronic dimming and strobe.

For more information about Martin Professional’s RUSH event, please visit: http://martin.com/pressrelease/pressrelease.asp?id=948&

As a world leader in the creation of dynamic lighting solutions for the entertainment, architectural, and commercial sectors, Martin lighting and video systems are renowned the world over. Martin also offers a range of advanced lighting controllers and media servers, as well as a complete line of smoke machines as a complement to intelligent lighting. Martin operates the industry’s most complete and capable distributor network with local partners in nearly 100 countries. Founded in 1987 and based in Aarhus, Denmark, Martin is the lighting division of global infotainment and audio company HARMAN International Industries. For more information please visit: http://www.martin.com.

HARMAN designs, manufactures, and markets a wide range of infotainment and audio solutions for the automotive, consumer, and professional markets. It is a recognized world leader across its customer segments with premium brands including AKG®, HARMAN Kardon®, Infinity®, JBL®, Lexicon®, and Mark Levinson® and leading-edge connectivity, safety and audio technologies. The Company is admired by audiophiles across multiple generations and supports leading professional entertainers and the venues where they perform. More than 25 million automobiles on the road today are equipped with HARMAN audio and infotainment systems. HARMAN has a workforce of 14,800 people across the Americas, Europe, and Asia and reported sales of $4.7 billion for the last twelve months ended December 31, 2013.

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HARMAN’s Soundcraft to Host “Mixing with Professionals” Sessions at Prolight & Sound 2014

FRANKFURT, Germany – HARMAN’s Soundcraft is hosting its popular “Mixing with Professionals” (MwP) training sessions at Prolight & Sound 2014 in Frankfurt. The sessions will offer formal training and demonstrations on Soundcraft’s Si Expression range and the groundbreaking new Vi3000 digital live sound console.

“We trained around 2,000 engineers over the past year on the Expression range as well as Vi and know the Vi3000 especially will draw lots of interest at the show,” said Keith Watson, Marketing Director, Soundcraft Studer & AKG, HARMAN Professional. “The MwP sessions offer a great opportunity to get hands-on experience with industry experienced engineers on hand to help and provide tips of the trade, everyone is welcome to join a session.”

The ‘all-in-one-box’ Soundcraft Vi3000 digital live sound console offers a host of state-of-the-art features, a new industrial design, 96 channels to mix, and onboard Dante. The Vi3000 uses the new internal Soundcraft® SpiderCore DSP based on sister company Studer’s Vista 1 engine, with Soundcraft’s Vi Version 4.8 operating software offering the new ‘3D’ Vistonics™ user interface, while adding a fourth 24-channel fader layer to improve access to the console’s 96 input channels. The surface operation and layout is similar to other Vi Series consoles, providing a familiar feel while offering expanded functionality. The Vi3000 also features upgraded microphone preamps and 40-bit Floating Point DSP processing for superlative sound quality.

The MwP sessions will be held on all four days of the show (March 12-15) in both German and English languages at the Harman booth F32 in Hall 8. More details are available at www.soundcraft.com/mwp/events.aspx.

HARMAN (www.harman.com) designs, manufactures and markets a wide range of audio and infotainment solutions for the automotive, consumer and professional markets – supported by 15 leading brands, including AKG®, Harman Kardon®, Infinity®, JBL®, Lexicon® and Mark Levinson®. The Company is admired by audiophiles across multiple generations and supports leading professional entertainers and the venues where they perform. More than 25 million automobiles on the road today are equipped with HARMAN audio and infotainment systems. HARMAN has a workforce of 14,600 people across the Americas, Europe, and Asia and reported sales of $4.5 billion for the last twelve months ended September 30, 2013.

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