Guy Pavelo Uses Clay Paky Sharpy for Drake Tour’s Diamond-Shaped Rig

LOS ANGELES – The Clay Paky Sharpy was lighting designer Guy Pavelo’s first choice for his hi-tech rig on hip-hop star Drake’s latest world tour. His design featured a diamond-shaped rig peppered with Clay Paky Sharpys. For this, Pavelo designed a complicated layered system of truss that exploded out from a central diamond. A considerable number of Sharpys are rigged across the master and diamond trusses with more rigged on a central ‘donut ring’ to deliver some perspective bending lighting looks.

SACRAMENTO, CA  — For Jesus Culture’s Unstoppable Love, a live album and DVD, LD Robby Kurtz deployed 32 of Martin’s MAC Viper Profile moving head luminaires and 26 Martin Atomic 3000 Strobe fixtures to create a complicated design that ensured each song had its own look. Kurtz also used Martin’s M6 lighting console to control the entire design and used the recently introduced MSD 6 for pre-programming. “The Show Designer software is a great tool for programming offline,” said Kurtz. “I spent a couple of days building the foundation of the show at home, which saved a ton of time on-site.”

Blizzard Lighting’s BladeRunner RGBW/White narrow beam LED fixtures are designed to add an extra dose of visual impact for House of Worship and entertainment lighting applications. Each unit has four mini moving heads, and each head is fitted with a single 10W CREE LED that emits a 2-degree beam of light.

DETROIT – As part of the renovation of its amphitheater, Fiat-Chrysler used a Vista Systems URS-1608 Universal Routing Switcher to support video feeds. Sources were a variety of graphics computers, two laptops running Playback Pro, and a switched HDSDI program feed. Chuck Laszyca, Chief Technical Officer at TVS Communications Solutions explains that, “since all the feeds were to discrete displays it was the perfect application for the URS.  Four outputs with transitions fed the Crestron DM system that provided four unique signals going out to all these rooms.  The remaining four outputs were used as a combination of “Source” and “Confidence” monitoring.”

Entec is supplying lighting and sound for Ian Anderson’s current UK concert tour. Anderson, best known as lead singer, flautist and acoustic guitarist for rock band Jethro Tull is enjoying performing material from his latest album, Homo Erraticus. The show is divided into two halves. The first is a performance of Homo Erraticus in its entirety, and the second is a selection of greatest hits from the Jethro Tull era so two completely different approaches are needed to lighting the show.