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By Richard Cadena Claypaky’s Rhapsodya is an LED profile spot moving yoke fixture designed to meet the demands of the theatrical and television markets....
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By Steve La Cerra Tom Mic was designed for use on rack and floor toms in the studio and onstage, with attention paid to...
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By Rob Halliday It’s an interesting game, entertainment lighting control. In global terms, it’s not a huge market – it’s not the iPhone, you’re...
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German Light Products (GLP) is making a big impact with its next generation of LED strobe, the JDC2 IP. Innovatively designed to create fresh...
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As the traditional lines between lighting, scenic, video, rigging and other forms of visual and production design continue to blur and merge, designers have...
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By Mike Wood It’s been a while since I reviewed something that wasn’t LED-based, particularly a wash light. However, it’s still hard to beat...
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Although Avolites’ heritage is very much in lighting control, the company has made significant steps into the world of video control over the past...
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There was a time in the lighting world when all moving lights were either a hard edge unit or a wash fixture. By 2002,...
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By Nook Schoenfeld Ayrton has unleashed their most powerful moving profile yet with the release of the Huracán-X. Boasting a 50,000-plus-lumen output via a...
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By Craig Rutherford The term “PAR” is, at the outset of this new decade, a particularly notable misnomer. The trend has for some time...
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By Mike Wood Earlier this year, we looked at a Robe spot that uses additive LED colour mixing, but that doesn’t mean Robe has...
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By Nook Schoenfeld One of the most anticipated and talked-about new fixtures displayed recently is the BeaSt (Beam + Strobe) from SGM. A prototype...
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By Brandon Creel Robe is a top name in entertainment lighting, and the Czechia-based company continues to deliver new and innovative products to the...
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By Jim Hutchison Most people would agree that any product with a “2.0” or a “Plus” label on it is an upgrade, a fix...
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By Craig Rutherford Nowhere do we observe a stronger demonstration of the principle of trade-offs in intelligent lighting than in color mixing systems. Color...
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by Jim Kumorek The Obsidian NX2 console is a product of the acquisition by Elation Lighting of the M-Series lighting control system from Martin...
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by Nook Schoenfeld I had a pal of mine call me last month and ask if we’d seen the TurboRay yet. I mentioned that...
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By Craig Rutherford Large-format fixtures have been the last to make the change to LED. Excepting some specialized narrow-beam fixtures, these solid-state semiconductors have...
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By Mike Wood The subject of this month’s review is not a moving light, nor is it strictly a wash light. Instead, this LED...
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by Nook Schoenfeld It’s pretty evident that, out of all the linear auto tilting battens on the market, German Light Products (GLP) has garnished...
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By Mike Wood If this month’s light looks familiar, that’s because the form factor of the output lenses undoubtedly is. Many manufacturers make products...
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by Craig Rutherford Our collective taste for novelty is the great driving force of the entirety of the production industry. The musician’s craft is...
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by Nook Schoenfeld Having already conquered the arena and stadium markets with their highly successful BMFL line of fixtures, Robe set their sights on...
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by Jim Kumorek The bright, compact, easy-to-use Smarty Hybrid luminaire is designed to do triple duty as a wash, spot, or beam fixture. Our...
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by Brandon Creel ETC, headquartered in Middleton, WI, is an evolving company. Their acquisition of High End Systems in 2017 expanded their product portfolio...
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The form factor of any particular object may serve to hide its unique features, to whatever extent they exist. Humans use shortcuts — we...
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By Nook Schoenfeld Well, now it’s now official. Everyone that has ever made a moving light has officially thrown their hat into the ring...
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By Mike Woods Robe is one of the few manufacturers producing automated profiles using additive colour mixing. The main reason being that it’s harder...
Equipment News
The Obsidian Control Systems team is excited for Prolight + Sound 2025 in Frankfurt (April 8–11), where Obsidian lighting control experts will be highlighting...
