High End Systems Unveils TM-30/Cri Correction Filter For White LED Automated Luminaires

[caption id="attachment_273671" align="alignnone" width="432"]High End Systems Unveils TM-30/Cri Correction Filter[/caption]

AUSTIN – Automated lighting manufacturer High End Systems announced today that they have created the world’s first TMI/CRI Correction Filter for White LED automated luminaires. TM-30 is a new quality metric that was recently adopted by the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) to supplement and eventually replace the old CRI (CIE) Metric for measuring fidelity of a light source. 

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[caption id="attachment_273665" align="alignnone" width="800"]Flume tour with Solaris Flares[/caption]

VANCOUVER, BC – On the heels of his highly acclaimed second album release “Skin,” Flume is taking his electronic genre on a world tour. The Australian producer has had a successful year of festival performances alongside an extensive headline tour of North America, Europe, and Australia.“The current leg of the tour uses 26 Solaris Flares,” says tour LD Stu Dingley. “We use eight on the floor upstage to push color through the stage, and 18 overhead to melt the audience at key moments throughout the set”

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[caption id="attachment_273662" align="alignnone" width="800"]Epica tours with help from Chauvet products[/caption]

SUNRISE, FL – A metal band that’s recorded hits with names like “Cry For The Moon” doesn’t normally cover music written by the likes of Antonio Vivaldi, Antonín Dvořák and Giuseppe Verdi, but then again, nothing about Dutch sensation Epica can be described as “ordinary.” In addition to performing the works of these and other classical composers, the six-member band has put its own fresh, original and totally captivating metallic symphonic spin on music from films like Star Wars, Spider-Man and Pirates of the Caribbean.

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[caption id="attachment_273659" align="alignnone" width="800"]Avolites helps out in Indy[/caption]

INDIANAPOLIS — Every year, the event known as “Downtown Indy, Inc.’s Circle of Lights presented by IBEW #481” kicks off the holiday season with a spectacle that lights up the Indiana Soldiers and Sailors Monument like a giant Christmas tree. The annual switch-on ceremony in late November made use of a roof, lights and stages provided by Mid-America Sound, with a video assist from Dodd Technologies. Mid-America Sound’s Bob Williams and John “Robo” Robison used an Avolites Sapphire Touch console to design, program and run the lighting show for the event.

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[caption id="attachment_273647" align="alignnone" width="800"]Grand Stage team[/caption]

MIDDLETON, WI– When companies join forces, the outcome is never certain. In the case of Chicago’s Grand Stage Lighting and Chicago Spotlight’s merger, everything points to an unqualified success. When we caught up with them at ETC’s Rep and Dealer Workshop this summer in Madison, Marty Lazarus, the previous owner of Chicago Spotlight, called it the “smoothest transition I have ever seen.” New company president Greg Becker added: “If there are problems, we have been too busy to notice them.”

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NASHVILLE – Embarking on her first headlining tour, Grammy, ACM and CMA Award nominee CAM is quickly becoming one of country music’s hottest young stars today. With her Platinum-certified hit “’Burning House” and her first major label album release, the Huntington Beach native is proving to have her own unique style on her inaugural tour. Needing a design that would provide this atmosphere of creativity, with the ability to be managed by a small crew, the artist’s management turned to Cour Design (www.courdesign.com).

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TALLAHASSEE, FL – The Alpha Production team had one thing in mind when they put together the lighting rig for the Pepsi Funk Fest Tour when it stopped at Florida A&M University. The most important thing they focused on was movement. Their goal was to create a show that was constantly moving and changing so it could keep up with the artists on stage.

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