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Monday, April 22, 2013
PSW Staff 04/22/13 01:33 PM,When California-based Barten Production Services recently provided technology reinforcement for the 2013 Mod Awards at the Four Seasons Hotel in Las Vegas, the set design depended heavily on GLP’s Volkslicht Zoom and Impression Spot One LED fixtures. Barten has been providing sound, lighting, AV, and production management services for the event, which honors the best modular trade show exhibits and event designs, for several years. Dave Barten’s company has a long association with the event and with GLP. Barten was… View this story
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PSW Staff 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… View this story
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Thursday, April 18, 2013
PSW Staff 04/18/13 08:27 AM,The Alpha Profile 800 ST is the most modern moving beam shaper in existence today for use in theatres and studios. Clay Paky has used highly sophisticated micromechanics to obtain a compact, light, silent unit with an extremely bright light and a zoom capable of producing an extraordinarily sharp, perfectly uniform beam. Lighting designers will find all the tools they need to enhance their creativity in the Alpha Profile 800 ST: a miniaturized four-blade framing system, capable of creating any… View this story
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Tuesday, April 16, 2013
PSW Staff 04/16/13 12:50 PM,Multi award-winning lighting designer, Tim Routledge, chose to specify Clay Paky 800W Alpha Spot QWO 800 luminaires to deliver an intense sparkle to British singer Gary Barlow’s glittering UK tour. Routledge, known for his work with Madonna, Katherine Jenkins and Stereophonics, specified 26 powerful Alpha Spot QWO 800s, supplied by Neg Earth, praising them as ‘superb optic spots, perfect for cutting through LED’. “I specifically picked the QWO800s having used them on the Queen’s Jubilee Concert,” says Routledge. “For the… View this story
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Thursday, April 11, 2013
James L. Moody 04/11/13 12:43 PM,An excerpt from Concert Lighting Techniques, Art and Business, 3rd Edition, published by Focal Press. While doing the layout and color chart, you must be thinking ahead to how the cues will work with your plan. Does the layout give you the degree of flexibility you want? Does the color chart work as a palette in harmony with the music? A separate design skill now enters the picture. The designer must take the raw data from the light plot and… View this story
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Tuesday, April 09, 2013
PSW Staff 04/09/13 12:38 PM,Clay-Paky has announced the availability of the Sharpy Wash 330, an extraordinarily compact, lightweight 330 W washlight, with the luminous efficiency, graphic and optical performance of a 1000W fixture. It is extremely silent and quick, and fitted with a complete CMY color system, special colors, 6.5°-48° zoom, mechanical dimmer, beam shaping filter and motorized top-hat. It is an eco-friendly light, allowing considerable running and consumption cost savings. Features include: New 330W Lamp (8,000 K 1,500 h) Equalling the light output… View this story
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Monday, April 08, 2013
PSW Staff 04/08/13 07:03 AM,Clearwing Productions Arizone is now an authorized Vari-Lite service center, with Clearwing service technician Andrew Witte certified in the VLX, 500, 800, 1000, 2000 and 3000 series of fixtures from Vari-Lite. Clearwing Productions is the only authorized Vari-Lite service center in the state of Arizona. Philips Entertainment offers a wide range of state-of-the-art lighting solutions for the concert, theatre, television, film, and architectural lighting markets. Consisting of industry leaders Philips Vari-Lite, Philips Strand Lighting, Philips Selecon, and the Showline family… View this story
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Thursday, March 28, 2013
Rob Sayer 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… View this story
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Craig Leerman 03/28/13 01:06 PM,There are a variety of protocols used that have been used over the years to facilitate communication of the control signals between a lighting console and fixtures and dimmers and effects. Before moving lights and LED fixtures, analog protocols were used to send intensity information to dimming racks. These systems sent a DC voltage signal ranging from none or 0 volts (off or 0 percent) to 10 volts (full or 100 percent) and were commonly referred to as 0-10 volt… View this story
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Friday, March 22, 2013
PSW Staff 03/22/13 02:21 PM,Martin Professional has launched the new VC-Strip family of narrow LED video strips, designed for integration into stage and set designs, as well as interiors like bars, ceilings and walls. Fully compatible with Martin’s VC-Grid LED video module, they can be used together for more creative LED video designs. VC-Strips are fully pixel-level calibrated on brightness and colors for optimal uniformity and quality and are driven by Martin’s award-winning P3 System Controller family for smooth playback that outperforms any DMX-based… View this story
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