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Maroon 5 Tour Taps Energy of Moving Lights, LEDs
NORTH CREEK, NY — Creative
Stage Lighting recently provided gear
for Maroon 5, the Grammy award-winning
group with hits including “Harder
to Breathe,” “This Love,” “She Will Be
Loved,” “Sunday Morning,” “Must Get
Out,” “Makes Me Wonder,” “Wake Up
The gear list for Maroon 5’s tour includes PixelRange LED
fixtures and Martin Mac 2000 Profile II “E” moving lights.
Call” and “Won’t Go Home Without You.”
The band, which has toured extensively
since the release of their first
album Songs About Jane in 2002, released
their second studio album in
May 2007, It Won’t Be Soon Before Long
last May.
Equipment supplied by Creative
Stage Lighting to Maroon 5 includes
James Thomas Moving Light Truss and
4-Lite units, Avolites Diamond 4 lighting
consoles, Reel EFX DF-50 Hazers,
PixelRange Pixel Micro W LED fixtures
and Martin Mac 2000 Profile II “E” moving
lights.
Bill Sheldon handled the lighting
design and direction and Wayne Bukovinsky
served as a lighting technician.
LEDs and Battery Power Help Energize Chris Brown Tour
SACRAMENTO, CA — The “Up Close
and Personal Tour,” headlined by 18-year
old R&B standout Chris Brown, had a futuristic
look crafted by lighting designer
Daunte Kenner that relied extensively
on LEDs and, to a lesser extent, battery
power.
“For Chris, the LED look is ‘in’ and he
insisted he wanted to use High End’s
new ShowGun to create a young trendy
vibe,” Kenner said. “The PixelLine 1044 is
the perfect complement to the LED ring
on the ShowGun,” Kenner added, saying
its output and color-mixing capabilities
helped fine-tune the lighting and Chris
and his crew’s stage outfits.
The PixelLines were attached at various
points vertically to the set and lit up
frosted Plexi Panels,
creating a continuously
changing backdrop
of colors. Sixteen PixelArc
Rs spiced up the
B stage: a 12’ tall stage
that pitches 60° and
rotates 360°.
“First we made the
PixelArcs attached to
the circular B stage
p o w e r - d i s t r i b u t i o n
friendly. We modified
them by creating our
own pass through. We
also had to figure out
how to power at least eight of them remotely
without running a power or data
cable to the stage,” he added, because of
the B stage’s rotational movement.
“After a full day of research, numerous
calls and lots of fast food, we discovered
that a 12-volt Optima dry-cell battery
would power eight PixelArcs for over
45 minutes,” Kenner said. “I also used
another eight PixelArcs to uplight eight
CryoJets for an eight-foot tall blast of liquid
CO2.”
In all, the rig included 28 PixelLine
1044s, 24 PixelArc Rs and 18 ShowGuns,
controlled by an Avolites Diamond 4 and
an EDXM Tube. Performance Lighting Inc
supplied all the lighting.
Lighting on a circular stage B, which turns 360°, relies on rechargeable batteries.
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