JSHAA News

Ultratec Special Effects has announced the release of their new Dry Icer Low Lying Fogger.

The Dry Icer is a New and Improved Professional, Cost Effective Solution for creating Spectacular Low-Lying Fog Effects. This sleek new design has a 20 pound Dry Ice capacity which is placed in a Stainless Steel Basket. Other new features are Low Water Shut Off Indicator, 4” Hose Adaptor and Heavy Duty Latches on the Lid. The Low-Lying Fog Output is controlled by lowering the Stainless Steel Basket with the 3 Step Pivoting Ratchet System. This will allow the basket to ease into the boiling water to create continuous Low-Lying Fog for approximately 5 minutes.

ETC Education has put together a series of training videos for their Ion console. When you purchase a new console you will receive the Fundementals 1 DVD, which can also be purchased through any of our offices, or watched online. Fundementals 2 will be available soon.

For ETC Element users, training videos are available to watch online or download.

All of their training videos are also available to watch on YouTube.

Don’t forget about Apollo’s summer gel rebate special! It ends Sept. 22!!

Lightwright 5 has officially been released!

New in Lightwright 5

Features Lightwright/Vectorworks Data Exchange, a new and easy way to share data
with Vectorworks Spotlight 2009!

• Worksheet reconciliation compares and synchronizes show files
• Share files and worknotes via network and built-in email
• Completely rethought and enhanced worknotes
• Global search across all worksheet columns
• Complete history of all changes, with flexible rollback options
• Wheel design window for moving lights
• Color scroll design window
• Template pictures
• New standard colors choose list and color swatches on the worksheet
• Live instrument and accessory counts
• Automatic dimmer load balancing
• More than one show file can be open at a time
• 18 flexible user-definable columns

Lightwright just keeps getting better and better!

Upgrade pricing is available for individual and institutional licenses.
Upgrades must be in the same name and serial number as the original buyer.
Student Licenses must be in the name of one individual student. Not upgradable to future versions of LW.
"Student license is for a period of three years." Requires valid student ID to be verified by dealer prior to purchase.

Contact your JSHAA sales person to place an order!

Contact your JSHAA sales person to place an order!

Now that everyone has recovered from St. Patrick’s Day (our Grand Rapids office is next door to a local bar and right around the corner from an Irish Pub, so there’s plenty of "abandonded" cars in our lot this morning. We’re waiting for the inevitable "walks of shame"!), I’ll start with:

Now through March 31, Leprecon is offering extra discounts on their popular ULD Dimmer series, which, by they way, are now available with wireless DMX! Contact your local Hyatt office for more info!

LeMaitre is now shipping their new G3000 Fogger.

This fantastic new fogger features:

2000 Watt Dual Core Heating Block LSG Compatibility Electronic Low Fluid Detection Continuous Output Fully Functional Digital Backlit Remote RDM Ready Rapid Change Technology Stainless Steel Body Heavy Duty Comfortable Handles One-Gallon Jug Holder

ETC is now shipping the new Net3™ Two Port Gateway.

"Expanding our networking offerings, the new Two Port Gateway is a convenient repackage of our Net3 Four Port Gateway electronics, for two-port wall-mount and portable applications. It is available either with two female XLRs or two male XLRs.

"Tested like no other product on the market, the Net3 Two Port Gateway ensures maximum ETC networking reliability. ETC completes extensive integration testing of all our networked products with nearly 300 network devices working together at a time.

"The new Net3 Two Port Gateway offers an angled connector entry for less cable stress on your DMX cables, and a shared interface with the Four Port Gateways. Both the ETCNet2™ and Net3 software images are now loaded into all our new DMX Gateways for easy transition from ETCNet2 to Net3 powered by ACN communications."

We are also happy to announce that our list of vendors that we are dealers for has expanded to include American DJ, along with Arriba Cases.

American DJ has been a leading manufacturer of low-cost club and DJ equipment for many years, and has been transitioning many of its products to LED technology.

With that in mind, we have added some American DJ Mega Panel LED fixtures to our rental inventory.

These fixtures have pretty decent output. Would I use them to light a cyc in a theatre? No. You can’t get a decent white light out of them and the beam spread isn’t that wide. Would I use them as accent lights to punch up a set piece or an event? Absolutely!

They can run off of as little as 3 DMX channels or as many as 26. Or they can run in different stand-alone modes, including sound activated!! (Perfect for you weekend basement raves! What? Doesn’t everyone do that?)