The yearly WFX conference and seminar is coming up next week in Dallas, Texas — are you going? We here at Chauvet Professional are going, and we have lots to show you and some great stuff to share! We’ll have a demo room set up in the C-level of the Dallas Convention Center featuring the […]
It doesn’t matter how high or low it is, when truss falls, it can hurt, destroy, and kill. Here’s a quick video of a band playing live in Poland when their low-hanging upstage truss tipped right over onto the drum kit. Be careful out there, everyone. Make sure you’re not overloading your gear, and make […]
Every time we look over at Mike Graham, one of our resident human walking awesomesauce packets, we can’t help but wonder how he fits all of that knowledge into one polo shirt wearing container. Mike provides great articles for Tech Talk here on the Chauvet Professional Blog, full of insight and hard work from his […]
LOAD OUT One of the happiest times of any show is the completion of load out. Especially if it is complete before last call at the nearest bar. However, load out is also, in my opinion, is often an overlooked event of show planning. By organizing your load out in the same fashion as your […]
Here at Chauvet Professional, we love to help the next generations of budding lighting designers, technicians, and touring professionals learn their respective crafts! Students at Wakefield’s Backstage Academy in Yorkshire, UK, benefited from a donation of four CHAUVET Professional Q-Wash 560Z-LED fixtures, which offered them the opportunity to really get some hands-on moving head experience. […]
In case you haven’t heard, one of our industry’s top rental, sales, and design houses, 4Wall Lighting, has come out with an excellent iPhone app to help you with putting together your next production package! You can also use their app to see what’s current out there, what’s best for your next show, what you […]
Great news from Chauvet — we’ve opened a West Coast branch in Sun Valley, CA! From the press release: Chauvet, a leading global supplier of entertainment lighting and trussing, announces the opening of a California-based branch office and satellite distribution center in September. Technical support, training and demo programs serving the US western region will […]
Now, for something completely amazing to kick off your weekend, check this image gallery out — this is the awesome work of light artist Simon Berger. His work is outstanding, let alone his work with long-exposure photography and light art. Hopefully this kicks your weekend off with a bang! Check out Simon Berger’s work!
During his recent North American tour, rapper, songwriter and record producer Pitbull ignited the audience with his high-energy performance not only rapping live, but also incorporating his famous duets with renowned artists like Jennifer Lopez, Christina Aguilera, Mark Anthony and Chris Brown, who entered the stage via recorded tracks on massive video displays. Video Director […]
Written by Mike Graham, product manager for CHAUVET Professional. Broken lights are a nightmare. Moving lights are more so because they are complex machines that seem to never break down in an easily accessible location. Unless you have a magic wand in your toolbox, you will encounter broken moving heads somewhere in your lighting life. […]
About 20 CHAUVET Professional fixtures lit the stage for various performances at a Jewish Center in Ciudad de Mexico. Lighting Designer Yonathan Mendelsberg of Lomas Eventos used 16 Q-Wash 560Z-LED wash lights and two Legend 300E Beam lights. More CHAUVET DJ SlimPAR Tri 12 IRC fixtures washed the stage in vivid colors.
CHAUVET Professional made a statement at the ENTECH 2013 trade show in Sydney, Australia, displaying bold fixtures with distributor Showtools. Our stand featured luminaires from the Ovation series of theatrical lights, COLORado line of wash lights, Nexus 4×4 pixel-mapping wash, Q-Spot 460-LED moving spot, Q-Wash 436Z-LED and more. Chauvet’s ILUMINARC brand of architectural and architainment […]