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    New CHAUVET Professional COLORado Batten Q15 Is Versatile By Design

    SUNRISE, FL – Inspiration and creativity (not to mention client needs and spatial limitations) are taking the shape of lighting rigs in many directions. Now there’s an extremely bright batten that can go right along with them. The new IP65 rated COLORado Batten Q15 features an array of rigging options that make it right at home in a wide range of designs.

    The adjustable trunnions on this one-meter long RGBW LED batten, which can be adjust without tools on its integrated track, have been given an even greater degree of versatility with the addition of ¼ turn omega brackets.

    Adding to the COLORado BattenQ15’s adaptability is a new system for joining different units together. Integrated into the end caps of the fixture is a system to connect units seamlessly for perfect row alignment. Since these attachments are weight bearing, the COLORado Batten Q15 can be hung “icicle style,” or arranged in tower configurations using the included hanging/floor mount plate.

    “Given the demands of today’s market, when lighting rigs are being set up in many different types of settings, we feel that adaptable rigging options have never been more important,” said Albert Chauvet, CEO of Chauvet. “The COLORado Batten Q15 combines a high degree of rigging versatility with outstanding performance features.”

    Among those performance features is the intense output from the new fixture’s 15 20-watt LEDs, which render beautiful and vivid colors and lend themselves to sizzling pixel mapped displays without the “skittle” look often associated with battens.

    Capable of transitioning quickly from a smooth color wall wash to a stunning effect, the COLORado Batten Q15 features an elliptical 42 – 15-degree beam spread, a stowable glare shield, color temperature presets from 3200 K to 10000 K, and selectable smooth dimming curves.

    Designed to excel indoors or out, and in broadcast studios as well as on concert stages, the COLORado Batten Q15 is intended to be as versatile as it is reliable. “Our customers are being asked to be more flexible and imaginative than ever today,” said Chauvet. “We developed this product to help them meet that challenge.”

    Tech Talk: Using Color, Angle & Gobos to Recreate Outdoor Scenes Onstage

    Find out how replicating the great outdoors on your stage can be a walk in the park with Product Manager Michael Graham with Tech Talk on Facebook LIVE, Thursday at 2pm (EST) / 19 hr (BST). Tune in as he demonstrates how to use professional lighting tenets for natural exterior scenes in Tech Talk: Using Color, Angle & Gobos to Recreate Outdoor Scenes Onstage. Get more Tech Talk on CHAUVET Professional Training & Resource Page.

    Tech Talk: How to Layout a Stage Plot

    On Facebook LIVE, Thursday at 2PM (EST) / 19 hr (BST), find out that there’s no right or wrong way to approach a lighting design with CHAUVET Professional National Worship Resource Manager Daryl Sutton, but there are a few tried and true tips for achieving ultimate design flexibility in worship environments. Join him for this installment of Tech Talk: How to Layout a Stage Plot. Keep training at CHAUVET Professional Training & Resource Page.

    Tech Talks Coming Soon: August

    Tune in Tune in Thursdays at 2pm (EST) / 19hr (BST) on Facebook LIVE, YouTube, and IGTV for the virtual series packed with how-to’s, in-depth trainings, and design topics followed by a LIVE Q&A hosted by CHAUVET Profession Product Managers to elevate your skillset. Here’s what you can look forward to. Find more resources on the CHAUVET Professional Training Page.  

    August 6th—How to Layout a Stage Plot

    August 13th—Using Color, Angle & Gobos to
    Recreate Outdoor Scenes Onstage

    August 20th— How to Measure Light

    August 27th—Overview
    of Lighting Control System Layouts

    Tech Talk: How to Pick the Right Video Pixel Pitch for Your Application

    Tune in for Tech Talk with CHAUVET Professional Product Managers every Thursday on Facebook LIVE at 2pm (EST). This week, demystify how to ensure your video wall pixel pitch, viewing distance, and brightness are optimal for your application when you join Product Manager Anthony Chiappone on Tech Talk: How to Pick the Right Video Pitch for Your Application. Want more Tech Talk? Keep training on the CHAUVET Professional Training & Resource Page.

    Tech Talk: Demystifying Lighting Metrics: CRI, TLCI & TM-30

    Tune in to Facebook LIVE Thursdays 2pm (EST) for a real-time Q&A with CHAUVET Professional Product Managers after Tech Talk. This week, you can take the guesswork out of understanding lighting metrics and learn how to make quality of light choices based on the right data and specs with National Resource Manager of Concert & Touring Brad Haynes in Tech Talk: Demystifying Lighting Metrics: CRI, TLCI & TM-30. Keep training on the CHAUVET Professional Training & Resource Page.

    Tech Talk: Adding Texture with Gobos & Effects

    Tune in for Tech Talk with CHAUVET Professional Product Managers every Thursday on Facebook LIVE at 2pm (EST). Turn your livestreams into tru virtual events with Product Manager Michael Graham as he shows how to add visual appeal to backgrounds and set elements in Tech Talk: Adding Texture with Gobos & Effects. Watch now as he breaks down baseline features, animation, and effect functionality so you can steal the show. Get more Tech Talk on CHAUVET Professional Training & Resource Page.

    The New CHAUVET Professional Maverick Silens 2 Profile Is a Silent Powerhouse

    SUNRISE, FL

    – CHAUVET Professional’s Maverick Silens 2 Profile will never be noticed because of its sound. The 100-percent convection cooled LED PCB fixture is virtually silent, attracting no attention to itself in studios for live stream broadcasts, recital halls, theatres or other applications where absolute quietness is essential.

    However, this 560W profile unit will be a standout performer as a lighting source, thanks to features like CMY+CTO color mixing with CRI, R9, CQS, and TLCI all between 91 and 97 (depending on the color temperature mixed). Other features that speak volumes about this silent powerhouse of a fixture include a four-blade framing shutter system with rotation, a color wheel, animation wheel, a 10:1 zoom, prism, two frosts, static and rotating gobo wheels, and 16-bit dimming with selectable red shift.

    “We are especially proud of this fixture,” said Albert Chauvet, CEO of Chauvet. “All of what we’ve learned through our work with professional LED fixtures over the past 15 years has been poured into the Maverick Silens 2 Profile. Our goal was to create a first-of-its-kind silent LED fixture that not only matched, but surpassed, the performance of the standard profiles that proceeded it in terms of brightness, color rendering and versatility.”

    The innovative design of the Maverick Silens 2 Profile features a doughnut shaped ring of white LEDs with an RGB LED in the center for toning (+/- green for on-camera use) and red-shift in dimming. Offering an impressive level of color rendering versatility, the fixture can create beautifully rich saturates, while also producing subtle pastels. Throughout the spectrum, the colors rendered are extremely realistic, as is evidenced by the fixture’s pure red tone with no trace of orange.

    Combining high CRI LEDs with precision optics, the Maverick Silens 2 Profile has an output of over 11,000 lumens. With an optimal throw distance of 30-50 feet, the fixture is right at home in a variety of studio and stage applications. In all cases, it delivers smooth and even edge-to-edge coverage.

    Thanks to its advanced engineering, the Maverick Silens 2 Profile offers an unprecedent level of accurate and detailed control in lighting applications. For example, its frost ranges from barely perceptible, all the way up to completely diffuse. Its + or – 60 degrees rotation framing shutter system supports a wide array of framing positions, while its 10:1 zoom covers 5-50 degree beam angles — and its fully wiping blades can create an assortment of shapes.

    “There’s a wide variety of ways that quiet lights are used in various applications,” said Chauvet. “Designers shouldn’t have to sacrifice versatility for silence. With the Maverick Silens 2 Profile they don’t have to. Now they can have silence and more flexibility than ever.”

    Tech Talks Coming Soon: July

    Tune in Tune in Thursdays at 2pm (EST) / 19hr (BST) on Facebook LIVE, YouTube, and IGTV for the virtual series packed with how-to’s, in-depth trainings, and design topics followed by a LIVE Q&A hosted by CHAUVET Professional Product Managers to elevate your skillset. Here’s what you can look forward to. Find more resources on the CHAUVET Professional Training Page.  

    July 2nd—IP Fixture & Maintenance/ What IP
    Ratings Mean

    July
    9th—Adding Texture with Gobos & Effects

    July
    16th—Behind the Scenes with Life.Church

    July
    23rd— Using Color, Angle, and
    Gobos to Recreate Outdoor Scenes Onstage

    July
    30th—How to Pick the Right Video Pitch for Your Application

    Tech Talk: What IP Ratings Mean, Application & Fixture Types

    Get more from CHAUVET Professional when you tune in Thursdays at 2pm (EST) / 19hr (BST) on Facebook LIVE, YouTube, and IGTV for in-depth trainings with Tech Talk. This week, explore what IP ratings mean for exterior-based fixtures and how to use them with National Resource Manager of Concert & Touring Brad Haynes in Tech Talk: What IP Ratings Mean, Application & Fixture Types. Learn more from Tech Talk on the CHAUVET Professional Training Page. Â