Happy Tuesday, everyone!!! We’re just getting back from this year’s TV, Concert, and Electronic Dance Music Master Classes sponsored by Live Design — a great time was had by all. We had so much fun sponsoring and being a part of the events and festivities this year in Los Angeles at the famous USC Campus, […]
We here at CHAUVET Professional have been working hard to bring you new toys to check out at LDI. While some things were previewed at PLASA last month in England, we thought it would be a good idea to give you a little teaser to what you will see at our booth, #1141. This year […]
Projection Mapping is always so much fun to see, and even more fun to participating in creating! We just found a pretty fun one out of Japan — check it out! 3D Mapping Japan from Charlie Law on Vimeo.
Chauvet Professional’s own Mike Graham is back for another issue of TECH TALK! This time, Mike brings us insights on the pitfalls of convenience with respect to lighting design and programming. Mike? SENSORY UNDER-LOAD Without the ability to make our senses work together, designing a show is impossible. In today’s fast paced “Information Now” world, […]
Look what we found! Lighting designer Walter Lutzu has put out a massive (MASSIVE) list of how to program, run, and edit on a wide list of console manufacturers. Awesome work, Walter! Walter’s list of manufacturers: Chamsys Jands Vista Hog 4 from High End Systems Avolites Titan Avolites Pearl GrandMA 1 GrandMA 2 This is […]
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 […]