The grandMA3 light Control Room Version (CRV) console is the work-horse of the range but supplied without the monitor wing. Designed for use in control rooms where sightlines can be challenging, the grandMA3 light CRV features 2 additional external monitor ports to facilitate the convenient location of external 3rd party touchscreens without compromising the grandMA3 light console functionality.
H3 Group is a unit within New Zealand’s Hamilton City Council which manages three major venues; Claudelands Event Centre, FMG Stadium Waikato and Seddon Park. H3’s Technical Services department recently acquired an MA Lighting grandMA2 light, the perfect tool to control multiple lighting fixtures – conventionals, moving lights, LEDs, video, and media. The console supplies…
Newcastle’s Fordtronic AV specialises in providing high-quality audio and visual equipment for events of all kinds events including awards dinners, conferences and particularly corporate work. In March, they did 61 events and fortunately, they had their new Prolights Astra Hybrid330s, as well as four sets of ShowPRO Apollos and six Prolights EclProfile CT+ to help…
Lighting designer Paul Collison was one of the first in Australia to get his hands on the Martin MAC Ultra Performance, an extremely bright moving light that features benchmark output across the zoom range, a true next-generation framing system, higher definition optics and astoundingly low noise levels. “I saw the first demo units and decided…
When Tasmanian production company VJAM was looking to replace their aging Martin MAC Vipers that had served them well over the years, they had a look at several replacement fixtures but could find no better than the Ayrton Perseo Profile. “The Perseo has excellent colour mixing, great gobos and a shuttering system which works really…
Kiss has rocked the AFL grand final pre-match entertainment at the MCG playing three songs with an abundance of pyrotechnics and flames. The creative direction for the performance was by Tom McDonald, Mushroom’s Chief Creative Officer, and Show FX was contracted to provide all the pyrotechnics and flames by Frontier Touring’s Travis Hogan. Show FX’s…
Australian metalcore band Polaris toured through September in support of their third studio full-length album, Fatalism. Their most ambitious national headline tour to date was lit by Calum Young who describes their music as quite ‘technical’. “Metalcore is quite a technical genre of music, a lot of strange timings and it can be difficult to…
Brisbane’s Cannon Hill Anglican College has updated the lighting in its auditorium with an all-LED rig thanks to Brisbane Sound Group. The old energy-consuming Fresnels, Profiles and PAR 56 fixtures have been replaced by Martin ERA 600 Performance, ShowPRO Pluto 250, Prolights EclFresnel 2K, EcLFresnel Jnr and ShowPRO LED Profile VW. Finally, the College has…