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Originally Posted by zac850
Also, the advantage that I saw cut down on the number of lights that they needed to buy/hang. 4 or 5 fixtures were used instead of 20 or 30 which they would have otherwise needed to hang.
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That's the beauty of intels/movers, you can do such amazing things such a small amount versus billions of
conventionals. Just read a lighting magazine these days (like PLSN), read touring profiles and it's amazing some of the things they accomplish with such a little amount of fixtures. Years ago you probably would have seen billions and billions of
par cans. This reminds me of my led zeppelin dvd, they're lighting late 60s was a super basic wash and a spot light for each member. I thought it looked great compared to the mess they had in the 70s when I guess their tour was extravagant enough to start geling every fixture. More was better back then, simple because you couldn't control lighting rigs like you can today. Nowadays, it's amazing how extravagant some of these professional "ballyhoo's" done at concerts these days. On top of it all everything is fairly neat it doesn't look cluttered like many designs found back in the day. If you know what you're doing, 18 intels can do the job of 60 conventials. I don't necessarly mean it'll recapture what the conventials do, but it'll put on a show just as nice. Besides the moving effects, these lights can be so useful for quick focusing esepecially when someone steps out of the wash or light.
Just take a look at the production profile of PRO LD Dan "Malibu" Krygowski. He stays well under budget, you really have to see some of the pictures in this issue of PLSN. This was a fourth phase gig...
(12) High End Studio Colors
(10) Studip Colors
(04) Cyberlight Turbos
(01) Avolites Sapphire 2000
"I've worked on Hog and the Martin Maxxyz. But these guys [the band] are so on-the-fly that the Sapphire is the quickest board for me, becuase I grew up on Pearls, through the
House of Blues company."
Quality, not quantity. Just look at the pictures. Not on the site but if you have the June 2004 issue of PLSN you'll be quite surprised (pg 28-29).
http://www.plsn.com/cgi/issue/viewis...&id=1086727829