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By Rich Tozzoli Walk into almost any pro studio and you’ll see an Eventide H3000 Ultra-Harmonizer. When it was first released in the mid-1980s,...
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By Richard Cadena It wasn’t that long ago that using batteries to power stage lighting, audio, and video was virtually unheard of. It was...
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By Bill Di Paolo In professional audio production, wireless microphone systems are often judged not by how they perform in ideal conditions, but by...
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By Richard Cadena In the early 2000s, many people were uncertain whether LEDs could ever light a stage well enough to satisfy lighting designers....
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A pencil condenser is an all-rounder, a surefire hit for the tool belt of an engineer. A go-to, an every-person’s mic, an ol’ reliable....
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By Brandon Creel ETC fixtures, like the Source Four ellipsoidal and PAR, were purposely built for theatrical use. Because of their practicality, the television...
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by Loren Alldrin Called “unflappable with plosives,” our reviewer finds that handling noise on the 2028 is among the quietest of any mic he...
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By George Petersen Before we get started, I should come clean and admit that I’ve always been a fan of Electro-Voice speakers. This goes...
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Many of those working in the Lighting Production industry may only know “Stumpfl” as a name overheard in the AV aisles of the warehouse....
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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...
Equipment News
The Showtec Lumina Sola is a high-performance outdoor LED blinder designed for large-scale events and demanding applications. At its core, a 500 W RGBAL...
