Martin Professional’s MAC Viper was (and remains) an impressive piece of engineering. Released in 2012, this 1,000W moving light quickly set the standard by which all other automated hard-edged lights were judged. On top of being housed in a reasonably sized package, especially by the standards of the time, the Viper touted a new colour mixing system that promised true mixed reds, as well as an updated gobo set that left behind the more intricate patterns of the MAC 2000 Profile and introduced some wonderfully chunky aerial effects gobos. While still viable, the advantages and clear industry trend has been toward LED fixtures and their attendant advantages, and so a non-arc lamp version of this light was more or less inevitable. The Martin MAC Viper XIP is the newest iteration of the light and the version we’ll be looking at in this Road Test.
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