MAC101 Demo: Manic Bloom "Never Back Down"

This show was programmed shortly after Starlite Productions took an order of 48 Martin MAC101 LED moving heads for rental stock. These fixtures are awesome - super fast (but, as this video shows, not as fast as the visualizer in my head) and incredibly bright for their size. You can daisy chain up to 10 of them with Powercon link cables and you can put up to 22 on a single 20 amp circuit. Talk about power-saving!

The show was programmed on a GrandMA Light and all of the timing was done with an external timecode sync with the MA's timecode learn capability. I did not have extensive time to program or to timecode so the show is not as good as some of my others - but for what I did (a couple nights of programming at home and bits and pieces of two days in the shop), I think it turned out pretty well. The ending isn't as strong as I wanted it to be due to tracking issues that I had a hard time fixing. I learned my lessons, though, and know how to correct them in the future!

Music is buy the awesome guys of Manic Bloom (www.manicbloom.com). Check these guys out - their music is really good. I've been a fan of theirs for about as long as they've had a good internet presence.

Rig: 48x Martin MAC101, 11x Martin MAC700 Profile
Control: GrandMA Light

Rig was constructed on 4x 11' (10' + cornerblock) verticals of truss on 125# bases with 2' and 6' pipes all over the place. The top four MAC700s were hung on the demo truss. The MAC700s were not used as much because this is a show to showcase the MAC101s. Show programmed for the Martin Lighting demo held at Starlite Productions.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• MAC101
• Martin MAC101
• Manic Bloom
• GrandMA Light
• GrandMA Lite
• GrandMA
• Starlite
• Starlite Productions
• LED
• LED Moving Head
• Moving Head
• Martin Lighting
• MAC700
• Light Show
• Lighting Show
• Concert Lighting

[Chupippomink]

how does the Grand MA compared to a Road Hog? I've only ever use Road Hog and love it and was just wondering if you have an opinion

[soundlight]

@Chupippomink It all comes down to personal preference but I find that the MA is just a better console to program on. I much prefer MA's division of palettes/presets to Hog's, and the playback options on MA are far beyond Hog. With a double wide executor you can do so much with one cuelist or effect or chase. The MA also has much more customizable layouts and more options than the Hog. Really, it comes down to personal preference, but there's a reason the MA1 is pretty much the desk to know.

[demb3k]

What did you use to program that? (PS that was fantastic)

[soundlight]

@demb3k See the equipment list in the video/description: it's an MA Light. I flesh those out for a reason! Glad you enjoyed it!

[ThatSpicySauce]

do you have the fixtures in RGB or RAW mode? I can't seem to figure out which is better, haha.

[soundlight]

@ThatSpicySauce RAW mode. In RAW, the Red channel controls just the red LEDs, the Green just green, and the Blue channel just blue LEDs. The RGB mode tries to correct for consoles' color mixing engines. I much prefer RAW because it's the way to get the pure, saturated colors that a single color of LEDs provides. The 100% output is also a tad bit higher if I remember right because RGB tries to make a "corrected" white by lessening some of the colors for a better white light.

[PIe4Weebl]

@2385Lucifer You don't know what a product demo is do you?

[squirly81]

That was sick!

[DannyLuftmanCircus]

@Chupippomink Grand MA is from far better!

[TF23lliot]

nice work there. it not only shows your programming/design skills but also the effectiveness and speed of the 101s

[pksrapture1]

wow

[2385Lucifer]

What a CRAP !!

Look's great if you put the music OUT !

And the music is great if you shut you eye's....

First rule of lighting: "LESE IS MORE!"

And second rule: The people are NOT comming for you but for the ARTIST... so don't be the middle point of attention or just get a better artist !

[tmrosenfeld88]

I think this is really really good, but i think that there was almost too much going on at some moments. I'm no lighting designer, but that's just my opinion having no technical knowledge of lighting set ups/designing.