By: Richard Cadena
When lighting designer Nick Whitehouse wanted to make Carrie
Underwood’s live concert look big, he chose to use 48 Claypaky Volero
Wave moving light battens. The result created the illusion of hundreds of
moving heads. The beams scattered across the arena like giant pick-up
sticks scattered across a table.
The Volero Wave is a cross between a static LED batten and a tilting moving light with eight 40W RGBW LED light cells; the optics create a 2.9° beam with a sharp edge. Each cell can independently tilt up to 220°, and, equally important, the beams pop. When they move in unison, they create a look reminiscent of the DHA Light Curtain, only brighter and more saturated. It’s what allowed Whitehouse to artificially create an intimate space where the floor was curtained off from the rest of the arena.
Panify is just the yoke and it’s designed to work with any fixture up to 66lb. It looks like a regular moving light without the light head. It has an LED menu display and a connection panel with PowerCon in and out, DMX in and out, and an Ethernet port. The DMX and power are carried through to the yoke, which has a DMX output connector and a PowerCon output connector, both of which connect to the mounted fixture.
Read the full review at Lighting & Sound America
www.claypaky.it
Australian Distributor: Show Technology www.showtech.com.au
