Poor Ritchie Harland of AVPartners has to work in the tropical paradise that is The Whitsunday Islands off the Queensland Coast.
The company has owned an MA Lighting MA2 ultra-light console for a while now and it happily resides in Hamilton Island’s convention centre. However Richie needed a more portable solution for transporting around this glorious part of Australia as things get heavy walking on golden sand with tropical breezes rustling the palm trees.
“We need a smaller, more portable console than our MA2 ultra-light for our moveable venues and outdoor dinners and we preferred to stay with the same platform,” said Richie. “We went with a dot2 XL-F which was a simple change for our guys who could already operate the MA2 ultra-light.”
The dot2 XL-F is a compact, durable and remarkably lightweight lighting console designed for small to medium sized productions up to 4,096 control channels.
“The guys have found it to be very easy to pick up and run with, operation wise,” Richie commented. “We haven’t done any formal training but most of them have managed to pick it up on first use and program an entire show on it. It is just a very simplified version of the MA2.”
