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CHAUVET at Dealer Event in South Africa

Posted on April 15, 2012

CHAUVET South Africa dealer Audiosure invited 150 distributors for an evening of showcase, interaction and prizes. On display and also the talk of the evening were a variety of CHAUVET fixtures. See photos:                          

CHAUVET at USITT 2012

Posted on April 11, 2012

For the first time at the USITT show, CHAUVET attracted visitors with an array of lights, including our COLORado Series of powerful wash fixtures, ideal for stage use. On display we had the COLORado Zoom Tour, COLORado Zoom CW Tour, COLORado Zoom WW Tour, COLORado 2 Zoom Tour and COLORado 1-Quad Tour. Projecting beautiful saturated […]

Tech Talk: Don’t Ignore Preventative Maintenance

Posted on March 28, 2012

Written by Mike Graham, product manager for CHAUVET Professional Keeping your equipment running is critical in this day and age. No one can afford to have a broken fixture just sitting there collecting more dust than if it were in the rig. Scheduling preventative maintenance protects your investments and brings more money in the long […]

Zen and the Art of Entertainment Lighting, Part 2

Posted on March 5, 2012

Written by Mike Graham, product manager for CHAUVET Professional Question: How many grains of sand are in the desert? Answer: Not one more than there has to be. When you are working on your design of your light plot, it is important to not throw every single light you have at the stage…unless it absolutely […]

CHAUVET Professional at PLASA Focus: Austin 2012

Posted on February 28, 2012

CHAUVET Professional showcased INfectious products at this year’s PLASA Focus: Austin 2012. Visitors of booth 206 had the opportunity to experience our MVP 12 modular video panel, Legend 412 moving yoke, COLORado 2 Zoom Tour and COLORado Zoom Tour static wash lights, as well as Q-Wash 560Z-LED moving head. Also featured was the practical wireless event […]

Tech Talk: Right Fixture in Your Design

Posted on February 28, 2012

Written by Mike Graham, product manager for CHAUVET Professional So here we are, LEDs are everywhere: RGB, RGBW, RGBWA, tri-colored, quad-colored, color temperature control. And what do we do with it all? Is there a standard for all of these colors and lensing combinations across the industry? Absolutely!….not. So, how is a designer or specifier […]

COLORado Batten 144 Tour on JimonLightTV

Posted on February 22, 2012

We are thrilled to be in the premiere episode of JimonLightTV. Already an industry favorite, Jim Huthinson’s JimonLight blog has recently branched out into webisodes. These online sojourns will allow the blogger to spend some quality time with subjects like the in-depth review of the CHAUVET Professional COLORado Batten 144 Tour. Below is the teaser for […]

COLORdash Batten-Tri Colors Paris Trade Show

Posted on February 15, 2012

Spreading the prettiest deep pink, 22 COLORdash Batten Tri linear wash lights were the stars in Paris, France, at the popular SIEL trade show – the Professional Trade Show of Staging and Event Solutions. Rental company Stars installed the fixtures in the center of the trade show, where they also lit an awards ceremony and […]

Event Live Expo 2012

Posted on February 8, 2012

We participated in Event Live Expo 2012 in L.A. last week. A great show overall with interesting discussions, such as a festival panel featuring representatives of Coachella, Electric Daisy Carnival, Hangout, Voodoo, and Burning Man. CHAUVET Professional also had a booth where we showed off our MVP Series of modular video panels, COLORado Zoom Tour and COLORado […]

Tech Talk: Tooling Around

Posted on February 3, 2012

Written by Mike Graham, product manager for CHAUVET Professional A universal theme among us in this industry is that we have to travel to do our jobs. Planes, trains, and automobiles, that’s us. I have to say; sometimes I really envy people who only go on planes for vacations. Since the unfortunate events of September […]

Zen and the Art of Entertainment Lighting, Part 1

Posted on January 26, 2012

Written by Mike Graham, product manager for CHAUVET Professional “I know nothing, but you know less. Together, we will learn and become Masters.” ~ Michael Thomas, Bartender and friend 1995 When you start working on a show, you walk in a blank slate. You know nothing of what the show will be. Often times, the […]

My (Way) New Year’s Resolution

Posted on January 16, 2012

Written by Mike Graham, product manager for CHAUVET Professional I have seen The Matrix a ton of times. Not only do I like the story, but the effects were really cool. The problem with cool effects is that you start to see them over and over again. The effect known as “bullet time” was developed […]