MIAMI — At this year’s Ultra Music Festival in Miami, Martin Professional fixtures played a big role. The company recently shared links to video clips chronicling the prep work undertaken for the 2014 event. This year, a combination of Martin lighting fixtures were deployed across multiple stages, including: RUSH 5×5 Strobe, RUSH MH2, RUSH PAR1, MAC III Profile, MAC Viper, MAC 101, MAC Aura, M-1 Control, M2go Console.
Read More »ANAHEIM, CA — Flex Rental Solutions, a provider of web-based rental and inventory software for the live event industry, announced that McNally Enterprises, Inc., based here, marks a company milestone. McNally is Flex Rental’s 400th customer.
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ZHUHAI, China – Harman’s Martin M6 Console was chosen to control and calibrate the lighting systems of the Changlong International Circus Festival. The setup for the festival features two M6 consoles of the 64 channel version, as well as eight Ether2DMX8 DMX routers.
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SOUTH KIRKBY, Yorkshire, U.K) – Tinie Tempah’s 11-date UK and Ireland Temptation arena tour this spring was backed by LS-Live designer Gaz Mallon, who worked with show designer Anthony Randall and production manager Phil Broad, providing a raised V” Shape stage, Prolyte S52 truss and LiteDeck components.
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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.”
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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.”
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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.
Read More »MATTHEWS, N.C. – Elevation Church added Clay Paky A.leda B-EYE K20 LED-based moving lights to the extensive roster of AV equipment it used for a series of Easter worship experiences this year. The Easter worship experience featured seven different elements: four worship songs, an opener, a closer and sermon, each of which were programmed to have a different look. LD Andy Bentley and a team of Elevation volunteers mounted the B-EYEs on the upstage truss; in addition, nine Clay Paky Alpha Spot HPE 1500s were positioned on the deck upstage.
Read More »Cristiano Giavedoni and Amedeo Guizzi have launched BLUMANO Ltd., providing consulting about lifting and load-bearing equipment for stages and other areas of entertainment industry production. Services offered include system integration of structures and machinery, structural calculations; site installation consultancy and project management; and safety assessments and engineering approvals.
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LONDON – Built with bigger, more complex and content-heavy shows in mind, d3 Technologies says its new server, the d3 4x4pro, can replace four standard media servers. Next to DXV, d3 now also supports HAP and the high-fidelity HAP-Q content. It can play 32 layers of HD (DXV/HAP) with canvas sizes up to 16K pixels across, or up to eight layers of lossless QuickTime animation, and with its twin 10Gbit/sec ethernet connections, it can transfer huge files in minutes rather than hours.
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