BRISBANE, Australia — The Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre (BCEC) has increased its stock of Robe ColorSpot and ColorWash 700E AT moving lights. BCEC lighting supervisor Michael Kelly based his decision on the growing popularity of the Robe 700 series and their “value for the money.” “The design is great, specially the way the menus are set up onscreen, which makes everything very easy,” said Kelly, who also credited the brightness of the fixtures, and noted that, “compared to others, the 700 is also a very quiet fixture” — a key consideration for many of the events and presentations held at BCEC.
The BCEC technical team also had good reports on the fixtures’ reliability, quality of color mixing, beam control and the frost filter used for widening and diffusing the beam.
The Robe gear, which is primarily used at the BCEC for event staging, moves from place to place within the BCEC, at venues including the Great Hall, Ballroom and Exhibition Hall spaces.
The first event to use the complete Robe rig was the Zig Zag Charity Ball in the Great Hall. Eight ColorSpot 700E ATs were positioned on the back truss with four onstage. ColorWashes were rigged on the front truss to cover the room and to provide a wash on the upstage cyc. “The impact of using just 2 fixtures on a 25 meter-wide-by-9-meter-high rear cyc was incredible,” said Kelly.
A circular truss was flown in the center of the room, loaded with ColorWash 700s, mirror balls and other moving lights, which were used to light and project effects onto the dance floor and around the room. “One ColorWash now achieves the same effect as 4 fresnels previously,” Kelly said.
Lighting operator Michael Hughes added that the “wide zooms, bright output and variable CTO functions” of both ColorSpot and ColorWash units have been a boon to the overall flexibility and functionality of their lighting rig.
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