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Los Angeles, September
24,
2007
Noted lighting designers Patrick Woodroffe and Dave Hill are using two
full-size grandMAs for “Turn It On Again - The
Tour” which
reunites Genesis band members Phil Collins, Mike Rutherford and Tony
Banks. Woodroffe and Hill employed the grandMAs in multi-user mode to
program the show quickly and efficiently; during the concerts one
console controls the show while the other runs in full-tracking backup
mode. A.C.T. Lighting is the exclusive distributor of the grandMA in
North America.
According to programmer Dave Hill, the lighting design created for the
tour has never been done before. “Of all the stadium shows I
have
done this is the best visual one,” he reports.
“With
Genesis the design develops as the show goes along. It looks pretty
when the day lights change into night lights and, in addition, the
drapes and pods come up.”
The grandMAs trigger 12 universes of DMX. Four NSPs are integrated into
the network, three for running the show and one as spare. The grandMA
controls a lighting rig consisting, among others, of 36 VARI*LITE VL5s
beneath the roof, 14 VARI*LITE VL6Bs on the front of the roof, 50 Robe
ColorSpot 2500E ATs on the floor and high ribs, 74 Coemar Infinity Wash
XLs on the brow and high ribs, 65 High End Studio Beam PCs set across
the front of the stage and illuminating the nets hanging in the
background, 41 Martin Atomic 3000s on the pods and floor plus 20 ZAP
Technology BigLite 4.5s, six ZAP Technology Little BigLite 3.0s and six
85K Hungaroflash T-Lights. A Barco Daylight screen, measuring 15x40
meters, displays high- and low-res components.
“The BigLites and the Little BigLites work extremely well in
outdoor shows,” notes Hill. “Nowadays, the BigLites
are
provided with color mixing so we have four different types of moving
heads. When you create a show like this you pick the best lights you
can get from each brand available on the market. We have seven pods in
the show, each of which has two BigLites. The lighting systems then
consist of 12 PAR 64s, four Atomic 3000 Strobes and two BigLites
hanging on the bottom. This system enables us to ride and stop anywhere
we want from the bottom to the top of the ribs. I employ these lamps in
afterglow. When the lamps are on the bottom, I lift them up and they
come through the screen as a silhouette backlight.”
Hill uses the grandMA in bitmap mode to wipe a line of lights in one of
the shows. “To my knowledge, this cannot be realized by any
other
desk,” he says.
“I like the grandMA console very much,” says Hill.
“It is a good desk. It does everything I want it to do, and
operating it was easier to learn than I thought it would be. MA
Lighting supplied someone for all the rehearsals to assist me, but as
time went along this became less necessary. You only really learn how
to use a desk when building a show.”
Adam Bassett is the associate lighting designer on the Genesis tour.
MA Lighting is
exclusively distributed by A.C.T Lighting.
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