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CHAUVET Professional Helps Alec Takahashi Connect Thomas Rhett To Crowd

CHAUVET Professional Helps Alec Takahashi Connect Thomas Rhett To Crowd

Location, they say, “is everything” in retailing; well, it’s pretty important in live touring too. Just ask Alec Takahashi, the long-time lighting designer for country superstar Thomas Rhett. Lighting the multi-platinum singer/songwriter’s Bring The Bar To You tour, the LD could sense the crowd enter different emotional spaces as his client moved from one location on the set to another. “We had a B stage that Thomas Rhett walked on for a few songs,” said Takahashi. “This allowed us to create stripped down moments for him to get closer to fans. When he did this, the crowd subconsciously relaxed and became a little loose. You could literally feel the crowd relax and engage when he moved to that stage, and then you could feel the energy skyrocket with no walls when he returned to a full band performance on the main stage.”Read More »CHAUVET Professional Helps Alec Takahashi Connect Thomas Rhett To Crowd

Creative Conners: Smart Chain Hoists | Programmable CM Hoists with Stagehand Control

Chain Hoists are the workhorses of entertainment rigging. Pair a Creative Conners’ Smart Hoist with the company’s Stagehand control and Spikemark software to unleash their full potential: 100 fpm, variable speed, and programmable positioning. Here’s a video overview of Smart Chain Hoists from Creative Conners:

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Robe Provides a 100% Solution for 1% Quiz

The first season of the 1% Quiz TV quiz show in the Netherlands was recorded at EMG’s Mediahaven Studio in Amsterdam with a stylish lighting design by Henk-Jan van Beek of design studio Light-H-Art. This featured 110 Robe ESPRITES, 98 LEDBeam 350s, 46 LEDBeam 150s, and 20 T1 Profile moving lights, all delivered by Eventec.Read More »Robe Provides a 100% Solution for 1% Quiz

Solotech Announces New UK Headquarters to Continue its Expansion in Europe

Solotech, a global leader in AV entertainment and technology, is delighted to announce the opening of a new UK headquarters. Located in Birmingham, the new modern facility will serve as a hub for audio, video, and lighting rental stock and corporate offices, as well as a central location for its booming sales and systems integration activities. From this strategic location, the company is well positioned to efficiently serve the UK market and deliver its future projects in Europe. The install process is underway, and operations will begin in the upcoming months. Other Solotech locations in the UK continue to operate to serve client audiovisual needs.Read More »Solotech Announces New UK Headquarters to Continue its Expansion in Europe

CHAUVET Professional Helps O T Events Technicians Create a Sense of Newness at Illuminate

Ollie Titterington of O T Events Technicians knows every inch of the path that winds through Abbotsbury Subtropical Gardens for ILLUMINATE. That’s not surprising; after three years of working on this winter light celebration at the historic garden (it dates back to 1756), he’s traversed the event’s well-planned route time and time again, visiting the site months in advance to look for optimal lighting positions.Read More »CHAUVET Professional Helps O T Events Technicians Create a Sense of Newness at Illuminate

ADJ Introduces New Pixie Driver 8000 for Pixie Strip Series LED Battens

The ADJ Pixie Strip Series is a collection of LED pixel battens which combine vibrant LEDs with intelligently designed housings to create a powerful and versatile system. That system has now become even more flexible with the addition of the new Pixie Driver 8000. This powerful unit receives a KlingNet, Art-Net, or sACN control signal and powers up to 8,160 pixels of Pixie Strips.Read More »ADJ Introduces New Pixie Driver 8000 for Pixie Strip Series LED Battens

Laura Lee Everett Named USITT Executive Director

Laura Lee Everett is the new Executive Director of USITT

Carolyn Satter, president of the United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT), today announced that Laura Lee Everett has been named as the Executive Director of the association after an exhaustive nationwide search. Everett is currently the Chief Programs Officer for OPERA America.Read More »Laura Lee Everett Named USITT Executive Director

Brompton Technology to Showcase Latest Innovations in LED Processing Technology at ISE 2023

The Brompton Technology booth design for ISE 2023. The video screen image is of Ed Sheeran’s Mathematics (+–=÷x) Tour 2022. Ed Sheeran Tour Photo credit: Ralph Larmann

Leading global LED processor manufacturer, Brompton Technology, will be returning to Barcelona for ISE 2023, the world’s largest AV systems integration show, to demonstrate key developments in its industry-leading LED processing technology. These will take in the latest Tessera software features, including two major features published as part of the Tessera v3.4 software release: Extended Bit Depth and Stacking. The biggest product announcement and a new ‘game-changer,’ however, will be revealed on the first day of the show, solidifying Brompton’s name as a true innovator that is not only a current technology leader, but is a future-ready R&D expert.Read More »Brompton Technology to Showcase Latest Innovations in LED Processing Technology at ISE 2023