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ADJ 18P Hex

ADJ 18P Hex

[caption id="attachment_278047" align="alignnone" width="800"]ADJ's new Par with 6-in-1 LEDs[/caption]

ADJ says its new 18P Hex is the company’s most potent LED-powered Par fixture to date. Designed for use in fixed installations as well as for one-off events and touring productions, the fixture features 12W Hex LEDs, promising vibrant color washes. All-metal construction also makes the fixture well suited for use on professional production projects. Each of the unit’s 18 LEDs incorporate red, green, blue, amber, white and UV elements, allowing for impressive color mixing. Not only can the fixture be used to generate rich primary colors, it can also be used to provide warm amber or cool white washes. The inclusion of UV also means that the fixture can be used for dedicated UV wash effects or to generate UV-infused colors such as electric purple and hot pink.

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Woyzeck, lit with GLP fixtures

Neil Austin Uses GLP X4 Bars and XLs to Light “Woyzeck” at Old Vic in London

LONDON  – Creating a concept to sculpt the air with light, Tony and Olivier award-winning lighting designer Neil Austin has drawn on the work of early visionaries Adolphe Appia, Gordon Craig and the more recent Josef Svoboda to deliver his fractured, abstract and constantly changing masterpiece for the Jack Thorne adaptation of Woyzeck at the Old Vic. He connected their vision with the versatile delivery of GLP’s X4 Bars, which have been his main weapon on this production.

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The festival rig included Strike 4 and Rogue fixtures from Chauvet Professional. Photos courtesy Creative BackStage.

Pot of Gold Music Festival

10th Annual Event Gets Versatile Assist from Creative BackStage

It was late March, and the 10th annual Pot of Gold Music Festival outside Phoenix had just completed a successful run. John Garberson, the owner of Creative BackStage, which supplied the lighting rig for the two day event, was in his Chandler, AZ shop talking to friends. “This was a very big deal for us,” he said. “I think it holds a lesson for other small and mid-sized rental houses too. You know, we could not have built this two or three years ago.”

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Lightronics’ AR-1202RTC 12-channel x 2.4kW architectural dimmer.

Lightronics Architectural Dimmers

Lightronics got their start building dimmers, plain and simple. Founder Kevin Nelson was introduced to theater while a young man in school down in Virginia Beach, where he got involved with the audio and lighting gear he used. Eventually he was hired on by a local music store and got hands on work repairing lighting gear. Along the way he started using gear for shows, working long into the night before loading out his gear and going to the next venue the next day. At a point, he realized that dimmers needed to be constructed a bit more ruggedly to endure the rigors of being travelled in a van and be able to perform consistently every day.

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Chauvet Professional Maverick MK3 Wash

Chauvet Professional Maverick MK3 Wash

Chauvet Professional is a top name in entertainment lighting, and the company continues to deliver new and innovative products to the market. Joining the existing Maverick series of spots, washes, and a beam is the brightest of the washes, the Maverick MK3 Wash. In this Road Test, we’ll travel in and around the full-featured MK3 Wash moving head fixture to learn all about it.

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From top to bottom, ATEM Television Studio HD, HyperDeck Mini, Web Presenter and Teranex Mini Smart Panel from Blackmagic Design.

Honey, I Shrunk the Studio

A Look at Four Compact Tools for Video Production

I’ve been using a Blackmagic ATEM Television Studio for a while now, so I was excited to get my hands on the newly released Television Studio HD. Why stop there, though? This month you get a bonus equipment review — I took possession of not only the ATEM TVS HD, but also a HyperDeck Mini, a Web Presenter and a Teranex Mini Smart Panel. Basically, a complete eight-input switching/record/playback system designed to fit in a 1RU space, with the exception of the Web Presenter.

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Fans on Broadway ready for Game 4.

EventPM Lets the Predators Loose on Nashville

Crowd Takes Over Downtown Streets During Team’s Stanley Cup Run

Huge crowds descended upon downtown Nashville during the 30 days the Predators advanced through the NHL Western Conference, with hockey fever building to a frenzy during the 2017 Stanley Cup Finals series in early June. All that took placed in late May and early June, during one of Nashville’s busiest times of the year, with CMA Fest [June 8-11] and the CMT Awards [June 7] and related concerts happening around the same time. Fan fever pitch in the city streets was unlike anything the aptly nicknamed “Nash Vegas” had ever seen before.

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PLSN July 2017 Buyers Guide - Handheld Gadgets

Handheld Gadgets

As I walk along convention floors, I often notice cool little gadgets, from tools to lights to smoke devices and more. Each of these fits a nice little niche in our world of live events. Whether it’s a physical gadget, pressurized effect or an electronic device, we’ve compiled a few nifty devices we felt were worth a look this month.

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Joyce and Eric Von Fange

The Light Source

The Light Source epitomizes the American family-owned business, fabricating quality original products in their shop in Charlotte, NC. Officially entering their 30th year in business in 2017, they show no sign of slowing down as they continue to fabricate unique items that stem from client needs. PLSN sat down with Eric and Joyce Von Fange to talk about their company.

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Claypaky B-Eyes provided washes and beams. Photo by Steve Jennings

Move – Beyond – Live On Tour

Back for their third tour, siblings Julianne and Derek Hough of TV’s Dancing With the Stars fame were out on their Move — Beyond — Live On Tour, which launched April 19 in Akron, OH and crisscrossed the country before concluding in Santa Rosa, CA June 17. With a combined total of nine wins on the show, the dancers are delighting audiences with their routines with the show visuals adding their own razzle-dazzle. The tour’s designers include Peter Morse (lighting) and Butch Allen (set). We spoke with Morse about the show.

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