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Robert Juliat Merlin 2.5K HMI Followspot

Colour Sound Experiment Adds Robert Juliat Merlin 2.5K HMI Followspots to Inventory

LONDON – From touring productions to festivals and corporate events, Colour Sound Experiment has come a long way from the company’s early years as a supplier of early moving lights to dance parties and raves.  As one of the first companies to invest in intelligent light fixtures in the UK, Colour Sound continues to operate a firm policy of investing in the very latest products on the market to keep the warehouse stock list bang up to date. It comes as little surprise then that the company has chosen to invest in a number of Robert Juliat Merlin 2.5K HMI Followspots.

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Ayrton IntelliPix-XT

Ayrton IntelliPix-XT

Ayrton’s IntelliPix-XT, which joints the company’s XT Series of fixtures, offers nine RGBW multichip LED emitters arrayed in a 3×3 matrix and uses 126mm diameter optics to produce 2° beams. The combination of emitter and 126mm optics with a next-generation power supply unit results in over 95% efficiency, ensuring IntelliPix-XT can run continuously at full power without any loss of performance.

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Mega-Lite Tuff Baby Q-60

Mega-Lite Tuff Baby Q-60

The new Mega-Lite Tuff Baby P-60 is an LED lighting fixture that’s weathered for outdoors and can still be used indoors. This compact IP 64 rated unit packs a punch with 4 quad RGBW 15-watt LEDs. The addition of white LEDs allows for pastel hues that cannot be achieved with RGB LEDs alone. It has a 8º beam angle and also comes with a removable diffuser that creates a 30º diffused beam angle. The Tuff Baby Q-60 has 3-pin XLR DMX connectors and a weather seal screw type power connection. The fixture has a double mounting yoke for simple rigging or ground stacking. It is controlled via DMX 512, featuring 7 channels, audio trigger and master slave control options.

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Dicolor Phantom Panel from Mega Systems Inc.

Dicolor Phantom Panel from Mega Systems Inc.

Mega Systems, Inc.’s new Dicolor Phantom Panel is a new range of vivid LED displays designed for outdoor production. The product line includes 3 different pixel pitches to accommodate differing viewing distances, including 4.8mm, 5.9mm and 6.9mm. This product uses black face LEDs for a high contrast display. Each Phantom Panel has an aluminum casting on the bottom of the panel to keep the modules from making contact with the ground. This feature also helps  protect the LEDs during on-site assembly. Phantom Panels also have a double locking pin to make assembled panels secure during setup, and with one push, the button releases for easy tear down.

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The event honors and highlights the accomplishments of exceptional women of color.

Pete’s Big TVs Provides Production Support on BET’s ‘Black Girls Rock!’

NEWARK, NJ – Pete’s Big TVs (PBTV) once again supported BET’s broadcast of Black Girls Rock!, having been involved since the inaugural broadcast six years ago. An industry leading turnkey video production company serving clients worldwide, PBTV’s team, led by vice president Guy Benjamin, worked closely with production designer Anne Brahic, principal of Lucki Designs, Inc. and screens producer Laura Frank, principal of Luminous FX, to supply the ideal gear for the video-driven production design.

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Blizzard Lighting Weather System EXA

Blizzard Lighting Weather System EXA

Blizzard Lighting’s Weather System EXA updates the company’s popular Weather System offering with 6-in-1 LEDs and wireless control so that users can control their own light show completely cord free. Along with RGBAW+UV color mixing, this lighting package includes independent fixture swivel and tilt positioning, a wireless rechargeable battery powered footswitch, an adjustable T-bar lighting stand and carrying case.

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Martin Atomic 3000 LED Strobes and classic MAC Auras were used

Rig for Nashville’s Grammy Block Party Includes New and Classic Martin Fixtures

NASHVILLE — The 18th annual Grammy Block Party, hosted by country music artists The Warren Brothers, was offered for free to Recording Academy members and $50 for guests. It drew close to 1,000 to Cumberland Park from 4:30 to 10 p.m. on May 10 and featured the Cumberland River as a backdrop. Erik Parker, production designer with Chris Lisle Lighting Design, lit the live performances at the outdoor event with a rig that included new and classic fixtures from Martin, including Martin Atomic 3000 LED Strobes and classic MAC Auras.

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Barco One Campus opened May 27, 2016

Barco Opens ‘One Campus’ in Belgium

KORTRIJK, Belgium – Barco announced the opening of its new headquarters in Belgium on May 27. Located at the Beneluxpark in Kortrijk, the 230,000 square meter ‘One Campus’ is a circular building wrapped in glass and surrounded by green spaces. It’s also connected to three other state-of-the-art Barco facilities.

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The BMFL Spots, supplied by VER, were positioned on the house fly bars and used as down and backlights on the set structure.

Robe BMFLs Out On a Limb with Steven Tyler

NEW YORK – Steven Tyler – singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist best known as lead singer of legendary American rock band Aerosmith – played a special high profile concert in the David Geffen Hall at New York City’s Lincoln Center called ‘Out On a Limb’, in support of Janie’s Fund, his new philanthropic initiative to serve abused and neglected girls. Lighting the show was LD Nathan Alves, who used 12 x Robe BMFL Spots to produce most of the major signature looks.

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