MILAN – Giovanni Pinna's lighting design for the latest Vasco Rossi tour includes 41 Martin MAC 700 Profiles, 27 MAC 700 Washes, 16 MAC 2000 Washes, 10 MAC 2000 Performances, 16 Stagebar 54s and 38 Atomic 3000 strobes. Limelite of Rome provided the Martin gear. "The Profiles and Performance are the only spots on the show so they are very busy in all cues and placed to give me full coverage of stage, scenery and audience," said Pinna, who has served as Vasco's LD for years.
Pinna uses the wash fixtures for backlighting the band and the MAC 700s for lighting scenery, which is a big part of the show. The Martin Stagebars are rigged over the audience in clusters of 8 by 2 along with MAC 700 Washes.
"This was my first time using the MAC 700s indoors (Vasco's stadium tours in 2007 and 2008 featured over 100 MAC 700s) and I was completely satisfied with them," said Pinna. "For indoor touring I believe there are not many fixtures that can compete with them in terms of features, reliability and weight."
Pinna credited the MAC 2Ks for serving as "classic" lights that give him that extra power when needed. "They even blend perfectly colorwise with the rest of the rig, so I'm completely satisfied with them," he said.
Pinna also uses the animation feature on both the 700s and the 2Ks. "Using it without gobos is really cool," he said, "especially on audience cues. The zoom in the 700s is really good and is used on many cues."
And, as the show is rock 'n' roll, Martin Atomics played an integral role. "It's the only choice on the market in terms of a professional strobe," he said, of Martin's industry-standard strobe. "I'm fully satisfied with the reliability of the whole system."
Pinna also thanked the crew for keeping things running smoothly, calling Limelite "among the few professional lighting companies in Italy capable of dealing with such a job."
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