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I'm John Huntington, author of Control Systems for Live Entertainment, the first book on show control and entertainment control systems. Zircon Designs is my entertainment control system and audio consulting, design and implementation firm, but Control Geek is an open, non-commercial site, including many companies and resources.

 

While Control Systems for Live Entertainment covers entertainment control systems for all aspects of the live entertainment industry, this site focuses on show control, technologies that allows a system designer to connect more than one show system together into a "meta" system. There are many other sites out there that cover lighting, sound, machinery, pyro, etc. This page is a clearing house for information about show control, so if I've missed anything, or you have any comments or suggestions, please let me know.

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  • Show Control Manufacturers I Know

    Note: I have personal experience with each of the following show control manufacturers. I have either worked with their products personally, seen them in action in recent years installed and running real projects. Of course, I may have had bad experience 
    • Alcorn-McBride
      Steve Alcorn's show control company. Alcorn McBride makes a variety of show control equipment, from show controllers to digital audio and video playback. Their gear is intended primarily for theme park, retail, and other permanent installations.
    • Anitech Systems
      Anitech Systems is both a manufacturer of show control products, and a system integrator.
    • A/V Stumpfl
      Interesting Austrian control and video systems company. Their systems can do everything from top-down animatronics control to video presentation.
    • Gilderfluke
      Gilderfluke is best known for their "Animatronic" equipment.
    • Medialon
      Medialon, based in France, makes the widely used and very powerful Manager software.
    • Rapenburg Plaza
      This is Seirk and Rutger's company, which makes the "KISS" boxes and the "Ground Control Console".
    • Richmond Sound Design
      One of the oldest show control companies making products for live show control. The company is basically responsible for originating the MIDI Show Control standard.
    • Stage Research
      Stage Research makes SFX, a Windows-based program for theatrical sound playback and show control. The system can play Windows .WAV files in a cue-based manner, and can respond to or generate MIDI Time Code.
  • Show Control Manufacturers Submitted To Me

    Note: The following links have been submitted to me, typically by a representative of the company being submitted. All I know is what I have read on their web site. I don't mean to imply here that any of the following have made false claims--I just don't 
    • AAA\V Systems
      "We specialise in Animation, Automation and Audio Visual."
    • Ace Visual & Sound systems
      Ace makes the "Show Magic" system. (Note, I had this incorrectly linked to "Shownet" due to an editing error.
    • Alien Apparatus Company
      This company makes a Mac-based system.
    • CueOne
      "Solutions for automated audio and show control"
    • Inter2Face
      Inter2face makes several show control products.
    • Mckenzie
      McKenzie makes sound control software that also includes some show control functionality.
    • RSF
      This company makes a show control product calle the "Pilote".
    • ShowCAD
      ShowCAD makes a show control system, based on the PC. The system is primarily oriented toward lighting control, but can control just about anything.
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