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Thursday, April 25, 2013
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04/25/13 11:20 AM,
Country singer Luke Bryan’s 20-city “Dirt Road Diaries Tour” may have a down-home name, but its lighting inventory includes some pretty cutting-edge equipment, including Clay Paky’s new A.LEDA Wash K10 and K5 LED moving heads provided by Elite Multimedia Productions. The tour is using 12 K10 and 36 K5 fixtures as part of its “big, powerful rock ‘n roll rig,” says Lighting Designer Justin Kitchenman of Fadeup Design Group. He was introduced to the A.LEDA Series at LDI 2012 where…
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Monday, April 22, 2013
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04/22/13 08:11 AM,
This year’s Prolight + Sound 2013 saw the celebration of the 80th year anniversary for Coemar along with the debut of five new lighting solutions to meet today’s market requirements. Coemar has extended the depth of the LiteLed Series that features three items. MoonLite LED VW 3000/6500 K is a high efficiency panel, designed specifically for broadcasting and photography applications, that uses LED technology to reduce consumption and maintenance while eliminating heat related issues thus allowing utilization within very short…
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Thursday, April 18, 2013
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04/18/13 08:00 AM,
Elation Lighting is taking club/stage/production lighting even further with the Rayzor Q12, a new, more powerful addition to its high-speed Rayzor LED moving head series. Like its revolutionary cousin the Rayzor Q7, the Rayzor Q12 distinguishes itself with fast movements, an extremely compact size vs. output, smooth multi-shadow free Quad-Color RGBW color mixing, and the added bonus excitement of zonal chasing for visual effects. Designed for applications that require greater output, the Rayzor Q12 is equipped with 12 powerful 15-watt…
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Tuesday, April 02, 2013
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04/02/13 10:45 AM,
The Mega-Lite UniColor is a fully customizable, compact and impressively robust LED fixture. Giving new meaning to the phrase “custom made”, Mega-Lite offers five ways to customize a UniColor CM5—LED, beam angle, body color, DMX connection and LED wattage. The UniColor provides the option of a single LED color—red, green, blue, amber, warm white, cool white and ultra violet—making it the ideal fixture for applications that require maximum intensity of a single color. The warm white, cool white and ultra…
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Thursday, March 28, 2013
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03/28/13 01:56 PM,
The market in LED based lighting fixtures has possibly seen the biggest growth area in the stage lighting industry in recent years. All of the major stage lighting manufacturer have dived into the LED market while cheap imported lights mean that every church, small band or DJ can get a slice of the action too. Rental companies are now expected to stock a wide range of LED units alongside their tungsten conventionals and discharge moving lights and the technology is…
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03/28/13 09:13 AM,
When production for Smokey Robinson presents Human Nature: The Motown Show decided to relocate from the Imperial Palace in Las Vegas to the nearby Venetian Hotel, experienced lighting designer Steve Cohen received a call out of the blue from the show’s Creative Director, David Rudder. “They had already hired a set designer [Andy Walmsley], and were interested in having me light the show in the new space,” he recalls. “Although we had never met before, since I live in Vegas,…
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Tuesday, March 19, 2013
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03/19/13 09:40 AM,
Described as an “evangelical Christian megachurch” Saddleback Church in Southern California embraces high production values to reinforce its services. Looking to remain at the cutting edge via an architectural makeover late last year, they took delivery of a quantity of Spot One and Wash One LED moving head fixtures from GLP — commissioned by the then Lighting Director, Jon Griffin. GLP Inc President, Mark Ravenhill, recalls, “Jon contacted us about the fixtures when they were planning a lighting upgrade to…
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Monday, December 03, 2012
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12/03/12 12:06 PM,
Nationwide Arena is home to the Columbus Blue Jackets of the National Hockey League and is host to most of the popular musical acts that travel through Ohio’s capital city. Depending on its configuration, Nationwide Arena can accommodate between 17,000 and 21,000 people. Unfortunately, since opening its doors in 2000, poor sound system coverage had been the arena’s little secret. Fortunately the owners were unwilling to rest on their laurels. Recently, as part of a project that included a massive…
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Friday, November 30, 2012
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11/30/12 05:35 AM,
From modular chandeliers to glowing columns of light, the Event Cylinder from Elation Professional will inspire lighting professionals to take their designs to new creative realms. A battery-powered RGB LED fixture, the Event Cylinder is a one-foot-diameter (304 mm) transparent tubular-shaped color-changing unit whose uses are limited only by the imagination. For example; string a row of these attractive colorful spools around a stage or pavilion for an exotic lantern-style effect; place them on the ground to create a lighted…
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