Posts byBrad Schiller

MARTIN VDO SCEPTRON LINEAR LED VIDEO FIXTURES BRING STUNNING STAGE DESIGN TO LIGHT

Now in its seventh year, the annual VELD EDM and hip-hop music festival was held in Toronto’s Downsview Park. The eclectic lineup featured some of the biggest names in music, including Marshmello, Martin Garrix, DJ Snake, Benny Benassi, Lil Yachty and more. Each year the festival strives to develop an ambitious and eye-catching stage design,
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Five Fun Tricks with an Iris

(Photo by aLiveCoverage) Many automated lighting luminaires contain a mechanical iris, which reduces the aperture size of the main output. Martin fixtures, such as the MAC Viper Profile or MAC Quantum Profile, include this handy sizing tool. While the iris is commonly used to make the output narrower, there are many other modifications you can
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Meet Your Lighting Team

Nearly every production whether television, concert touring, house of worship, theater, or special events, requires lighting.  The concepts and ideas for the lighting starts and is the responsibility of the lighting designer.  However, he/she is usually assisted by a crew of experts to achieve the lighting vision for the production.   Behind every lighting design, there
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How Incredible Concert Lighting Happens On Tour

Have you ever returned from seeing your favorite band on tour curious about the lighting and effects used during the show? Many audience members don’t realize that the lighting equipment and staging actually travel with the band. The entire process of designing, programming, setting up, running, and tearing down the gear is quite monumental and
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Understanding the Basics of Programming Lighting With DMX-512

Great performance lighting is an art. The perfect mix of shapes and colors flowing smoothly throughout a set creates a visceral experience that accentuates everything else that happens on stage. This requires many parts working in tandem. Performances can often have tens if not hundreds of lighting fixtures, and controlling these devices seamlessly and simultaneously
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How Lighting Designers Use Additive vs. Subtractive Color Mixing

One of the biggest technological benefits to lighting designers is the ability to create a multitude of different colors from a single lighting fixture. Most automated lighting fixtures allow for color mixing capable of creating millions of different hues. This is achieved via two different methods known as Additive or Subtractive color mixing. Subtractive color
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