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Monday, October 13, 2014

The Most Popular Products Of The Summer: Lighting

Live Design: Live Design compiled a list of the 20 gear products that our readers found most popular during the 2014 summer. The list is composed of the items with the most page views. Covering all areas, the list resulted in four audio, five projection, and 11 lighting products.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

I'm not sure that "most visits to page" is a good way to judge products. The article says that these are the most popular products of the summer, there is an implication that those products are also good products. The moving light fixtures made by Robe and Chauvet I would bet are not of the highest quality. Its interesting how some possibly lower end moving lights and the high end pre-vis software are both on this list of most popular products.

seangroves71 said...

We made a show for I think it was keith urban this summer and it used approximately 60 of the chauvet 5X5 movers along side what looked like color washes (they weren't I just cant remember what they were called) but in total this structure that flew over head had 7 lines of truss linked between with some custom lighting troff truss. It made this massive 30'X30' structure that used 11 different DMX universes to run all of the lights and create a pixel map capable wall that they could use every individual lamp you see in the chauvet. Cabling that structure was a colossal nightmare thanks to the data needs for it. Oh I should mention that we made two of these structures, one flown overhead and one that was a standing wall. The flown one was dynamically flown unit so it changed its pitch through out the show using Navhoists. Those chauvet were incredibly dynamic and phenoinal to use