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By Simon Allen The new DM7 console range from Yamaha may present a slightly curious naming convention for some, sounding akin to that of...
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By Paul French Summer is the season of the doof—that goes without saying. However, unlike seasons past, this year I have increasingly found myself...
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By Michael Lawrence The CQ series is Allen & Heath’s new entry into the ultra-compact digital mixer market that comes in three variants: the CQ-18T and...
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By James Simpson Chauvet Professional has left me inspired by its latest product. As someone who had mainly used the part of the company’s...
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By Simon Allen DiGiCo’s new Quantum series marks its next generation of digital consoles, which benefit from an incredibly strong reputation. DiGiCo’s success story...
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by Jim Kumorek The DMX controlled, five-colour, 230-Watt LED fixture is a flexible retrofit option that will also find a home in future church...
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Having worked with the likes of Stormzy, Wretch 32 and Leanne Rimes, Monitor Engineer, Nat Hopking is a big fan of Midas’ latest cutting-edge...
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by Mark Hanna If you have ever used an intercom system in a live production environment, you know how valuable they are. If you...
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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 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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When not on the road, sound engineer Matt Welty works at Sound Image in Nashville having, not surprisingly, grown up in a music family....
