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Setting Up Something INfectious

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by Allan Reiss, CHAUVET® DJ Product Manager

After months of preparing, the event was finally here — time to start setting up for LDI! Our team arrived at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando and we were eager to start building the CHAUVET® Club/DJ booth. Conceptualizing and designing the booth back at headquarters took months and we were excited to see our computer renderings become a reality.

Seven men worked 13-hour days for four consecutive days to construct our masterpiece. We pieced together 132 pieces of truss to create a 28-foot tall, 400-square-foot booth. After the frame of the booth was put together, it was time to mount more than 200 fixtures. 

Just to give you an idea, here is a short list of some of the products we installed:
25 x COLORband™ Tri
22 x COLORrail™ IRC
6 x DMF-10
19 x Intimidator™ Spot LED 150
15 x Intimidator™ Wash LED 150
6 x Impulse™ 648
5 x LFS-5
6 x MiN™ Laser FX 2.0
6 x MiN™ Laser RGX 2.0
11 x MotionDrape™ LED
14 x Q-Spot™260 LED
6 x RotoSphere™ LED
17 x SlimPAR™ Pro Tri
7 x TriShot™ LED

Once everything was securely mounted, I began programming and it took me roughly 10 hours to create a light show that ran in sync with a special mega-mix video created by DVDJ Unique. I wanted the freedom to control the fixtures from my smartphone, so I decided to use ShowXpress™ instead of a DMX control board.

Setting up our booth went pretty smooth. Besides being physically exhausted, we didn’t run into any challenges or glitches. Whew! A big “thank you” to my fellow product development teammates David Velez, Michael Corby, Raglan Jones and Richmond McDaniel (as well as Joel and Alex from the union) for all their hard work and making LDI 2011 a success. See you next year in Vegas!

CHAUVET® Lighting is “INfectious”

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We traveled to Orlando, Fla.to take part in one of the industry’s largest trade shows: LDI. Team CHAUVET® spent months preparing for the show and introduced more than a dozen new products to the Club/DJ market. The show took place on Halloween weekend so we gave our booth an “infected” theme in hopes that LDI attendees would find our new fixtures “infectious.”

The 400-square-foot DJ booth included just over 200 mounted fixtures. The light show, which was programmed using ShowXpress™ and operated wirelessly using D-Fi™ 2.4GHz, ran in sync with a special mega-mix video created especially for us by DVDJ Unique. Just before the trade show floor opened, our product development team started the Arena™ 2100 Flex and we were ready to rock day one. As soon as clips from Rockwell’s “Somebody’s Watching Me” music video came on, the elaborate light show began and attendees were instantly infected. SlimPAR™ Tri 7 IRC  and SlimPAR™ Tri 12 IRC wash lights and Intimidator™ Wash LED 150 moving heads created vibrant, saturated washes throughout the booth. At the same time, bright, colorful beams from Rotosphere™ LED and DMF-10 effect lights,  MiN™ Laser FX 2.0 and MiN™ Laser RGX 2.0 lasers, TriShot™ LED color changer and Intimidator™ Spot LED 150 moving head danced wildly throughout the air.

Additional fixtures mounted to tree-like truss designs located within the booth gave attendees the opportunity to get hands-on with the new products. Booth goers went crazy for the battery-operated, 100% TRUE wireless Freedom™ Par  and Freedom™ Strip Mini wash lights, and the convenience of controlling COLORrail™ IRC linear wash light with a wireless remote left them addicted. LED Followspot 75 was mounted to a CH-W28 stand and attendees were invited to try their hand at altering the beam diameter by moving the mechanical iris and changing the beam color simply by pushing a button. Impulse™ 648, an ultra-bright strobe light powered by 648 LEDs, proved to be a crowd favorite. To give the ultimate CHAUVET® experience and top off the visit to our booth, we put Nimbus™  dry-iced machine to work and flooded the floor with thick, white clouds.

Overall, LDI was an unbelievable show for CHAUVET®. Not only did we successfully infect attendees with our lighting fixtures, we had a blast doing it. It should also be noted that the CHAUVET® Pro booth received the award for Best Large Booth — woo hoo! Thank you to everyone who stopped by and supported CHAUVET®. See you in 2012!