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Now in its eighteenth year, BIGSOUND Festival is an annual opportunity to discover the future of Australian music. Running over four September days and nights, Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley comes alive with a global gathering of musicians, industry, brands, media and music lovers.

One of the projects Creative Productions were tasked with was creating a projected ‘advert’ comprising of the event’s logo. A complicated task for some but not Jeff Pavey who managed an incredible result with just ONE Ayrton Mistral-S.

“It actually blew me away how good they were,” he said. “We had to project onto a seven-story building from 80 metres away and I couldn’t believe how well the Mistral did it. It is so bright, three times brighter than the fixture we used last year.”

Mistral-S is equipped with an LED module that delivers powerful metallic white light with record-breaking output of 17,500 lumens and a colour temperature of 6,500K.

Initially Jeff chose to use a Mistral due to its reliability and LED engine as he leaves the light running for the entire week of the festival and as it’s located on a remote, inaccessible rooftop, he didn’t want to be servicing it.

Jeff was also impressed by the quality of the Mistral’s optics which ensure that his custom gobo projection is crisp and always flat.

“They also have great zoom, effects and colour mixing – the saturated colour you can get without losing brightness is incredible,” he added.

Mistral

A versatile, new fully equipped 300W spot luminaire in the same ultra-compact format as MERAK. Its new 13-lens proprietary optical system delivers a 8:1 zoom ratio with a zoom range of 6.7° to 53°. The optics, equipped with a 119mm frontal lens, can achieve an extremely uniform flat beam that can render images perfectly in all conditions and at any beam angle. MISTRAL comes in two versions, each to meet the specific requirements of lighting professionals:

The Mistral comes in three models:

  • Mistral – S (AYRMIS102): a 18,000 lm, 6500 K, CRI=70 model
  • Mistral – TC (AYRMIS100): a 14,000 lm, 5700 K CRI=90 model
  • Mistral – Si (AYRMIS103) Installation model no wireless