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Dave Matthews Band Tour Returns with LED-Laden Rig
The DMB touring rig includes Elation Design Wash LED Pros
Dominic Fanelli
LOS ANGELES — After Theatrical Media
Services recommended Elation Professional’s
Design Wash LED Pro fixtures to DMB lighting
designer Fenton Williams and programmer Aaron
Stinebrink, 16 of the compact and energyefficient
fixtures were added to the touring rig.
With 11.6 million tickets sold between 2000
and 2009, the Dave Matthews Band ranked as
the top-selling tour of the decade, with part of
the appeal coming from the artists’ support for
the environment and for disaster relief.
So when it came to the decision of which
lighting fixtures to use for DMB’s latest tour, the
energy efficiency of was part of the reason TMS
made the recommendation for using the Elation
gear.
The Dave Matthews Band was an early
adopter of LED lighting technology, but another
key factor for Stinebrink was the fixture’s
size. At 17.2 inches by 13 inches by 8.6 inches,
the Design Wash LED Pros are small enough
to work as color-changing toners for the tour’s
20.5-inch truss.
Rated for 50,000 hours of use and equipped
with 108 3W Rebel LEDs (52 red, 22 green, 22
blue and 12 white), the fixtures can produce
any color the designers want to use, and their
3-phase motors offer speedy pan (630° or 540°)
and tilt (265°).
Other features include a built-in EWDMX
receiver for wireless DMX; a 98-240v multi-voltage
internal power supply; and a 15° lens that
produces a 9° beam angle effect and a 23° field
angle.
“The Design Wash LED Pro has been a great
addition to our tour lighting package,” Stinebrink
said. “Their speed, durability, size and
price make them an ideal fixture for large and
small touring applications — the perfect fit for
our touring needs.”
Access Hollywood’s
Live Emmy Awards Red
Carpet Show Adds Glitz
with LED Fixtures
LOS ANGELES — A team from Access Hollywood
produced the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards
Red Carpet Special on NBC, broadcast live from the
Nokia Theatre in downtown Los Angeles.
San Fernando, CA-based Acey Decy provided
LED fixtures this year, in the form of Prism Projection’s
RevEAL Color Wash instruments.
Carlos Sandoval, VP of operations for Acey
Decy, credited the RevEAL Color Wash for “great
tungsten, daylight, and RGB output with a CRI
above 95. The beam field is very even from the
center to the edges and the ease of changing
beam angles is easy with the multiple lenses available.”
The fixture also had an impact on the producers
of the show.
“For some time, we’ve been interested in
moving toward energy-efficient LED technology
for daylight/exterior red carpet-type applications,
but the consensus has always been that LEDs just
don’t have enough ‘punch,’” said Steve Holt, production
manager with Access Hollywood. “Time
and time again we heard from manufacturers
that their products were the brightest LED on the
market, but we remained underwhelmed until we
saw the RevEAL Color Wash.”
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Acey Decy provided Prism Projection’s RevEAL Color Wash fixtures
for the live television event.