Digging through the Lux Laboratory here at CHAUVET Professional, we discovered some original Rosco Prismatics gobos. Of COURSE our initial thought was “Hey! Let’s stick these in an Ovation E-190WW!”
The results were great, they were so crisp and colorful! Check it out!
What a beautiful scene — from Valparaiso, Indiana’s prestigious Valparaiso University comes a story about LED ellipsoidals performing above and beyond for the sake of worship and beauty, inside of the Church of the Resurrection on the Valpo campus.
From the press release:
Valparaiso, IN – With a soaring roof that’s distinctively shaped like a nine-point star, Valparaiso University’s Chapel of the Resurrection is a fabled landmark to passing motorists on nearby U.S. Route 30. By some accounts the largest collegiate chapel in the U.S., boasting a 98-foot high circular chancel, the 55-year-old structure is also “big” in terms of the interior illumination challenges it presents — which is why Jeff Hazewinkel, Director of the Center for the Arts at the Indiana university, specified CHAUVET Professional’s award-winning Ovation E-190WW LED ellipsoidal for a recent lighting upgrade to the facility.
The Ovation E-190WW units made their debut in grand fashion, illuminating the 2013 Valparaiso University Christmas Concert, a beloved musical tradition in the community for more than 80 years. Attended by some 2,500 individuals, the concert featured the Valparaiso University Chorale, Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Concert Band, and Women’s and Men’s Choirs.
Lighting up both an event and a venue of such exceptional stature presented the Ovation E-190WW with a big role to fill – literally and figuratively. Along with its nearly 100-foot chancel, Chapel of the Resurrection has an expansive nave that extends 58 feet high and 193 feet in length.
“The lighting requirements for the event were two-fold,” said Hazewinkel, “one, to provide the musicians and choir with sufficient lighting for their performance, and two, to enhance them to the audience. Also, the addition of accent lighting creates visual interest.”
Hazewinkel said he chose the Ovation E-190WW “due to its light output and cost effectiveness,” as well as its extremely low power draw compared to ellipsoidal fixtures with conventional lamps. “One of the greatest challenges in lighting this space is the lack of sufficient distributed power for traditional lighting dimmers and fixtures. The (Ovation E-190WW’s) LED technology enabled us to light the performers in a way that would simply not have been possible using traditional fixtures without major infrastructure changes to the 55-year-old facility.”
The winner of the 2013 WFX New Products Technology Award, the Ovation E-190WW is a warm white ERS-style fixture, powered by 19 x 10-watt 2,960K LEDs. It produces a high-quality flat, even field of white light and features 16-bit dimming resolution for smooth fades. The fixture includes standard beam shaping shutters and a gobo/effect slot, and it is compatible with industry standard lens tubes.
Hazewinkel used 20 Ovation E-190WW units to light the performers at the Valparaiso Christmas Concert, hanging the fixtures in the facility’s north and south galleries, with additional front lighting provided from a position in the west gallery. Since the units were at a distance of about 165 feet from the performers, 5° ETC lenses were used to focus their beams.
“The lights performed extremely well; the color was even and true,” said Hazewinkel. “The performers remarked on how the lights enhanced their performance.”
Chauvet lights also added a dash of color to the event. The company’s CHAUVET-DJ-branded COLORrail IRC multi-color LED strip lights were used as wall warmers, on the acoustical shell and to provide color all around the stage. “I have several COLORrails in my inventory,” said Hazewinkel, “and I find them to be bright, great color, and easy to position.”
Hazewinkel, who has designed lighting for more than 75 theatrical productions, as well as concerts, corporate and athletic events during his 17 years at Valparaiso University, said he plans to add more Ovation E-190WW units to Chapel of the Resurrection in the future. Because of its large seating capacity, “the chapel serves a variety of roles,” he noted. “It is regularly the site of University convocations, commencement ceremonies and special lectures, as well as performances by instrumental and vocal ensembles. We will be bringing in additional Ovation E-190WWs as we continue to update the lighting systems.”
Photo courtesy of Billboard.com, All Rights Reserved
WOW! Did you see Beyonce and Jay-Z last night onstage at the 2014 Grammy Awards? What a performance! Nexus 4×4 was there strutting its stuff right behind Bey and Jay, rocking the lumens as the music was pumping!
Photo courtesy of Billboard.com, All Rights Reserved
Photo courtesy of Billboard.com, All Rights Reserved
Happy Monday morning, world of lighting!
Is there a purchase of an LED video wall up and coming in your church’s future lighting inventory? CHAUVET Professional’s Video Product Manager Anthony Chiappone talks about what to look for when buying LED video wall products, and what to avoid like the plague!
Check it out at Church Production Magazine:
Happy Wednesday, everyone!
Did you see the video that 4Wall Entertainment posted with the Nexus 4×4? It was purely awesome. Check it out below!
Have you spec’ed Nexus 4×4 on your show yet?
Wow! CHAUVET Professional’s LEGEND 230 SR Beam recently helped LD Mark Carver rock the largest faith-based gathering in the world – IMPACT NYE. What a compliment! Check out the article written at Live Design Online — great work!
From the article:
The Impact New Year’s Eve concert at Lipscomb University’s Allen Arena in Nashville featured some of the biggest names in Christian music. Broadcast online to churches and youth centers around the world, the five-hour celebration of music and entertainment also represented what many are calling the largest faith-based global gathering ever assembled in one evening.Such an event required a powerful lighting statement, which is precisely why LD Mark Carver of Mark Carver Designs in Nashville selected 28 Legend 230SR Beams from CHAUVET Professional for his Impact New Year’s Eve rig.
Sixty-six outdoor-rated COLORado 1-Tri IP fixtures lit boutiques and small stores set up in four plazas for the holidays, as part of the Christmas March of Orléans event. Nils Limoge with Stars Europe installed the lights in Place du Martroi, Place de la Loire, Place de la République and Place du Chatelet, which lit the areas for 35 days in a row from the end of November to the end of December. Here are some beautiful images:
Very cool! Check out a review of the COLORado 1 Tri-7 Tour from CHAUVET Professional, over at Church Production Magazine! This is a great LED wash fixture with a tight, powerful beam and RGB color mixing, awesome for truss toners or anything accenting a structure or group of people.
From the article:
Chauvet Professional’s COLORado 1 Tri-7 Tour fixture is yet another success in Chauvet’s line of professional-grade LED fixtures. When I first unboxed the unit, I was a little taken aback by how small it was compared to some of the other fixtures currently in our two lighting rigs. In both our fixed venue and our portable venue, we use primarily Elation LED pars—either the Arena Par or the DLED. It was difficult to get a basis for comparison given that these Chauvet and Elation fixtures are so inherently different. Nevertheless, the Tri-7 has a few features and capabilities that let it keep up with its larger competitors just fine.
Check it out!
Were you in Miami for the recent LIFE IN COLOR tour? It was a blast — of paint, light, and electronic music greatness!
The internationally acclaimed Life In Color tour is aptly named. Aside from featuring some of the biggest stars in dance music like Calvin Harris, R3hab and Steve Aoki, the multi-city EDM tour, which bills itself as “the world’s largest paint party,” is a freewheeling festival of sights and colors with lavish spray painting of audience members, zip lines, carnival rides, dancing robots and, of course, an intensely bright, colorful and unforgettable lightshow.
The MVP 18 LED video wall panel from CHAUVET Professional has been an “indispensable” part of this lightship throughout the Life In Color Rebirth Tour, according to designer Collyns Stenzel, who has been the Life in Color lighting director since 2010.
This impact of the MVP 18 panels was very much in evidence during the tour’s final 2013 stop at a jam-packed Sun Life Stadium in Miami at the end of December. A total of 189 MVP 18 panels captivated the crowd in Stenzel’s eye-popping “Rebirth” design, which also drew on two other CHAUVET Professional products: the COLORado Batten 144 Tour and the Legend Wash 1200E.
The inspiration for Stenzel’s design came from the name of the tour – Rebirth.
“I associated ‘rebirth’ with the Phoenix rising and created the stage lighting design around this image,” explained the LD. “In the middle area of the stage is a circle symbolizing the head of the Phoenix. The ‘body’ is the upstage wall; the wings emanate from there; and the talons are the DJ booth.”
Stenzel created this design on a 40′ x 40′ (12m x 12 m) SL320 mobile stage. He built a video wall mid-stage using 99 MVP 18 panels, and positioned 45 additional panels on each wing. Most of the panels were hung in vertical strips with the exception of the upstage wall.
For Stenzel, creating an elaborate video wall that covered all sections of his intricate and thematic stage design was essential to conveying his message and connecting to the audience. “Life in Color is really a multi-dimensional show,” he said. “It’s not just about the stars performing on stage, or the lights or any of the other visual elements; it’s about everything coming together to create a total experience. In this design, the video wall is essential to pulling all of these different elements together visually.”
Aside from their wide viewing angle and the color consistency afforded by their calibrated tri-colored SMD LEDs, the easy-rigging features of the MVP panels also made them ideal for Stenzel’s Life in Color design. “The rigging on the MVP panels is really easy to work with,” he said. “There are no extra parts needed to hang the wall, it’s all built in. I wouldn’t have chosen any other panel for that design. The angles that we needed to hang the video at are impossible to get unless there are rear threaded M10 holes on the wall to install a clamp and the panel is light enough to fit the design. I can tell you without reservation that the MVP panels were a ‘perfect fit’ for this design.”
Stenzel also praised the MVP panels for being “bright enough to keep up with” the output of other fixtures on stage, notably the COLORado Batten 144 Tour from CHAUVET Professional. “When you are up against the extremely bright COLORado Batten 144, you need a bright video panel,” he explained. “The MVP 18 is a very bright panel for its resolution. When switching back and forth from lighting to video, we needed the brightness to be somewhere in the same range to avoid too much eyestrain. The MVP 18 proved itself to be perfect for this job.”
On the Life in Color Rebirth stage, Stenzel used 46 COLORado Batten 144 Tour fixtures in Block 2 Mode. Every batten was hung vertically between the strips of video on the stage and on the wings. Stenzel also relied on four Legend Wash 1200E fixtures to add an extra dimension of wash colors to the stage and provide tight audience sweeps.
It was the COLORado Batten 144 Tour, though, that really made magic with the MVP 18 panels. A widely-used batten-style wash with 144 calibrated red, green, blue, white and amber LEDs, five dimming curves and dual 15° and 30° optics, the COLORado Batten 144 Tour produces a very broad, bright wash for covering stage applications like the Life in Color tour.
Stenzel drew masterfully on the COLORado Batten 144 Tour’s performance features in his Life in Color design. “I used them as a blinding overpowering effect for simple chases and a little bit of pixel mapping-like effects,” he said. “In Block 2 Mode I was able do some low res mapping effects that worked out really well.
“Overall the Batten 144 Tour commanded the stage with its brightness,” he continued, “but the MVP panels were bright enough in their own right to stand up to them and allow us to create a balanced, richly colored lightshow that played off perfectly against all the other exciting things happening on stage to create the great sensory experience – which is what Life in Color is all about.”
Gear list:
189 x MVP 18
46 x COLORado Batten 144 Tour
4 x Legend Wash 1200E
Our Nexus 4×4 enjoyed quite a “rookie year” in 2013, showcasing its vibrant colors and intense brightness at major events like The Voice, The American Country Awards, One Direction’s Central Park performance on Good Morning America and more. Along the way, our RGBW LED blinder/wash picked up a prestigious 2013 Parnelli Award for Indispensable Technology in the lighting category.
So what do we do for an encore? Simple, we’ve expanded our Nexus Series to offer you more ways to shine than ever with insanely bright light, rich saturated colors, warm whites and scalable pixel mapping.
Like the ground-breaking Nexus 4×4, all of our new Nexus products are controllable by Art-Net, Kling-Net or DMX protocol, making it easier for you build massive lighting arrays without worrying about addressing each fixture individually.
Our new Nexus products include the Nexus 4×1, a 4-cell linear panel and the Nexus 2×2, a smaller square shaped panel version of the original 4×4. The two newcomers are powered by 27-watt (2A) COB (Chip On Board) LEDs, just like the Nexus 4×4 — and like the original, both also feature an advanced Chauvet reflector design that takes brightness to new levels of intensity. Linked together with the 4×4, the two new Nexus products make it easier to create a wide array of geometric patterns to add extra dimensions to your lighting designs.
We’ve also introduced two Nexus Affinity products, the Nexus Aq 5×5 and Nexus Aw 7×7, penetratingly bright narrow beam panels that excel as blinders, but can also be used to display text and animated graphics. Our 5×5 is powered by 25 10-watt RGBW LEDS and features an 8° beam angle; while the 7×7 has 49 3-watt warm white LEDs and a 7° beam angle.
As is true of all Nexus products, the new Nexus Aq 5×5 and Nexus Aw 7×7 are controllable by Art-Net, Kling-Net and DMX protocols to give you greater flexibility in designing shows. Each Nexus product can be remotely accessed from any web server through its unique IP address. This allows you to do things like update software and calibrate colors remotely online.
The unique interlocking system on the Affinity products makes it easy to align them horizontally or vertically, which significantly reduces set-up time. Using an optional Affinity Rig Kit (sold separately), you can hang up to 16 fixtures together, making it easier to create bigger, bolder and brighter shows than ever – which when you get right down to it is what the Nexus Series is all about!
To learn more about the Nexus Series visit, CHAUVET Professional.