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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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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...
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by Nook Schoenfeld The Rayzor series of light fixtures from Elation has always been a dependable, affordable range of wash fixtures. The line that...
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by Craig Rutherford To take a forward-looking view of the state of the lighting industry circa early 2019, one must almost certainly come to...
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by Nook Schoenfeld If you’ve ever run moving lights and automated fixtures from a lighting desk, it’s a safe bet that you know the...
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by Jim Kumorek The formerly Jands Vista series of lighting control systems has taken the church market by storm over the last 10 years....
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by Craig Rutherford It seems safe to say that Ayrton’s first “hit,” at least in North America, was the much-celebrated MagicPanel 602. Released in...
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by Craig Rutherford Beam lights, as a category we are all familiar with, have undergone radical evolution over their last few iterations. Initial designs...
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Mike Wood takes the weatherproof, automated LED luminaire for a trial run . . . It’s been quite a few years since I looked...
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by Jim Hutchison There’s a reason that Madrix 5 was just awarded a PLSN Gold Star Award for Best Pixel Management Software for 2018,...
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By Rob Halliday Remember when computerised lighting controls involved giant racks of electronics that required their own carefully constructed, well ventilated rooms? Thought not....
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by Jim Hutchison Claypaky is the kind of company where they release an innovative product, and the next thing that we know, the industry...
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By Thomas S. Friedman Chauvet Professional continues to be a top brand in entertainment lighting. Names like Rogue, Maverick and Ovation have become synonymous...
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By Richard Olson GLP has released a couple of small, yet distinctively different fixtures, in the last six months that pack quite a punch,...
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High End Systems continues to stay one step ahead of everyone else when it comes to LED light engine sourced moving profile fixtures. This...
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by Brandon Creel Elation Professional’s Smarty Hybrid is a new discharge lamp moving head spot, beam and wash hybrid fixture. It’s mid-sized but fully...
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by Richard Olson Robe has released their most powerful LED wash/effects fixture and it packs one heckuva beam from a large-scale pancake-faced fixture. They’ve...
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by Brandon Creel German Light Products (GLP) is headquartered in Karlsbad, Germany and has been making lighting fixtures since 1994. GLP is well known...
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Upon opening the Pelican that the demo unit arrived in, I didn’t notice anything particularly different on the outside from its relatives, the Taiga+...
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by Richard Olson When Ayrton first showed their version of an LED sourced hard edged yoke light at LDI, most people went, “Huh?” Our...
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by Nook Schoenfeld Perhaps the biggest news on the floor at this year’s Prolight + Sound show was the unveiling of the grandMA3 console,...
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by Vickie Claiborne Madrix has long been known for its powerful and easy to use LED pixel mapping control software. But last year at...
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by Craig Rutherford Automated framing shutters on moving lights were once not as common as they are today. The most popular framing-shutter fixture in...
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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...
