Crazy Dave’s Music Experience at the Welcome to Rockville Festival

Posted on May 20, 2013 by CHAUVET

Crazy Dave’s Music Experience was a huge success at this year’s Welcome to Rockville Festival. The sold-out festival, which took place in Jacksonville, featured performances by artists including Buckcherry, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Limp Bizkit and Alice In Chains. During the event, Crazy Dave’s Music created an interactive exhibit featuring all the elements needed to create music in a professional band setting. The exhibit included 12 CHAUVET® DJ fixtures, 20 CHAUVET® Professional lights and one TRUSST® Goal Post Kit, as well as guitars, bass, amps, drums, keyboards, electronic gear and lighting used by today’s most popular bands.

Within the 30-by-30 foot tent, people took turns playing guitars, drums and keyboards, singing into different microphones and trying their hand at the latest DJ equipment. They also got the chance to meet some of their favorite rock stars and take part in the “30 Seconds to Shred” guitar contest. Scroll on for some photos from the festival.

CHAUVET® DJ Gear List:
2 x Geyser™ RGB
2 x Intimidator™ Beam LED 350
1 x Scorpion™ GBC 2.0
2 x Intimidator™ Scan LED 300
1 x PixPar™ 24
1 x SlimPAR™ Quad 12 IRC
1 x COLORrail™ IRC
2 x Intimidator™ Spot LED 350

Xavier Muriel of Buckcherry

CHAUVET® DJ Rocks Out at Nightclub & Bar 2013

Posted on March 22, 2013 by CHAUVET

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Team Chauvet traveled to Las Vegas for the popular Nightclub & Bar tradeshow held at the Las Vegas Convention Center. The lively Chauvet booth was constructed using 122 pieces of TRUSST® truss sticks, base plates, corner blocks and connector kits. To illuminate the booth and showcase the latest gear perfect for club and bar installations, the team mounted almost 140 fixtures including Intimidator™ Scan LED 300 scanners, Intimidator™ Spot LED 350 moving heads, SlimPAR™ Pro Tri wash lights, COLORband™ Pix-M linear pixel-mapping lights and Geyser™ RGB pyrotechnic-like fogger/effect fixtures.

Detonate Blows Up with CHAUVET®

Posted on July 12, 2012 by CHAUVET

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The recent Detonate Indoor Festival featured loads of CHAUVET® gear and the hottest drum and bass acts around. Sub Focus, David Rodigan, Skream and more performed under (or in front of) CHAUVET® Professional MVP™ 18 modular video panels, CHAUVET® Professional Q-Spot™ 260-LED and CHAUVET® Professional Q-Wash™ 260-LED moving heads, CHAUVET® DJ Intimidator™ Scan LED 300 scanners, CHAUVET® Professional COLORdash™ Accent, CHAUVET® Professional COLORado™ 1 Tour, CHAUVET® Professional COLORdash™ Par Tri, CHAUVET® DJ SlimPAR™ 56, CHAUVET® DJ COLORband™ Pix, CHAUVET® DJ COLORband™ Tri wash lights, and CHAUVET® DJ Hemisphere™ 5 effect lights. Check out these photos from The Forum (one of eight stages in four venues at the festival).

Band Profile: Bad Habitz

Posted on June 6, 2012 by CHAUVET

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Bad Habitz, a youth rock band based in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, jams out under the light of CHAUVET® DJ fixtures. Jon-Paul LeClair runs the light show for this little group of rockers and incorporates 23 CHAUVET® DJ fixtures in their setup. Read on and get to know more about the band.

1. How did you come up with the name of the band?
The founder’s last name is Abitz, so they thought Bad Habitz would be a cool name.

2. How many members are there?
The band is comprised of four members: Zakk Abitz, 13 (lead vocals, lead guitar), Chloe Abitz, 10 (drums, vocals), Parker-Jon LeClair, 13 (bass, vocals) and Tanner Lardinois, 14 (rhythm, lead guitar and vocals).

3. What type of music do you play?
Bad Habitz plays 70’s and 80’s hard rock, as well as anything from Tesla, FireHouse, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Soundgarden and Metallica.

4. What CHAUVET® DJ fixtures are included in your setup?
I use two 4BAR™ Tri wash lights for uplighting, six SlimPAR™ Tri-12 IRC to wash the stage and highlight performers and eight SlimPAR™ 64 for highlighting the drummer and downlighting. Two 4Play™ effect lights create a nice beam effect, while two Intimidator™ Scan LED 300 scanners add movement and excitement. The fixtures are controlled using an Obey™ 40 controller and a Data Stream™ 4 allows me to run lines to each section of the stage instead of daisy chaining everything. To enhance the beams and make the lights pop, I use a Hurricane™ 1100 fog machine.

5. Are they permanently installed somewhere or do you set them up for each performance?
The band performs in local bars throughout Fox Valley, at festivals and other events. My rig is completely portable and has to be to accommodate the band. It probably takes about an hour, sometimes a little bit longer, to set everything up.

6. Complete this thought: A show without lights is like…..
A show without lights is like steak without A1 Steak Sauce. It’s that important.

Parlez-vous CHAUVET®?

Posted on January 24, 2012 by CHAUVET

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Our distributor from France, Algam, visited CHAUVET® HQ after The NAMM Show 2012. While they were here, we had a little fun while shooting a video short starring Algam President, Gerard Garnier. Our top question: “Parlez-vous CHAUVET®?” (translated to ‘Do you speak CHAUVET®?’) While we await its completion, here are a few behind the scenes photos to enjoy.

Team Algam visits CHAUVET® HQ (shown here with Stephane Gressier of CHAUVET®)

Algam President Gerard Garnier acts for the camera

Garnier is a DJ for the day

Team Algam watches the show

For our stage setup, we showcased a bevy of CHAUVET® fixtures:
18 x MVP™ 18 video wall panel
18 x MVP™ 12 video wall panel
2 x Legend™ 1200E Spot
4 x Legend™ 1200E Wash
2 x Legend™ 300E Spot
4 x Legend™ 300E Beam
4 x Legend™ 412 VW
4 x Intimidator™ Scan LED 100
6 x Intimidator™ Scan LED 200
6 x Intimidator™ Scan LED 300
8 x COLORdash™ Batten Tri
4 x COLORado™ Batten 72 Tour
8 x COLORado™ 1 Tri Tour
6 x COLORado™ Zoom Tour
4 x COLORado™ 2 Tour
6 x COLORband™ Tri
MotionFaçade™ LED
2 x Hurricane™ Haze 2
Nimbus™ dry ice machine
ArKaos Media Master (for video walls)
ShowXpress™ (4 universes of control using Xpress™ 512 Plus)

6 questions for David Dienstbier

Posted on July 1, 2011 by CHAUVET

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Meet our July 2011 Facebook Fan of the Month, David Dienstbier, from Omaha, Nebraska.

1. Favorite CHAUVET® light/product: I’ve really been pleased with all of my CHAUVET® lights so far, but my new Intimidator™ Scan LED 300 scanners are by far my favorite. Super smooth movement at any speed, solid quality build and insanely bright beams! They’ve really pumped up my light show.

2. Favorite CHAUVET® YouTube video: I’m a big fan of the “MiN Spot Array” video that shows off 48 MiN™ Spots going through a synchronized routine. Really cool!

3. Favorite LD: Willie Williams and Ethan Weber. The U2 360 tour was and is an amazing accomplishment on all levels.

4. Favorite event/nightclub with lights: I live in Omaha, NE and the best venue for live music and lights is Slowdown.

5. Favorite tip for new CHAUVET® user: I light the band more like a DJ than traditional live acts because we want the dance floor packed all night and that means it’s all about energy and movement. Best advice, based on my experience, is to plan the progression of your shows. Building a light show can get expensive very quickly, so start with foundation fixtures and build towards the effects that will complement your shows the most. Look for inspiration everywhere: architectural lighting, concerts, videos, etc. Color adds a huge impact. By playing colors off of one another, you can create a great looking palette of light with only a few fixtures. Oh, and if you are lighting a live band, don’t forget the drummer! Use a couple of LED PAR fixtures to uplight and downlight the drummer. It really makes ‘em pop!

6. Complete this sentence: A show without lights is like… Popcorn without butter. What’s the point?

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