Artiste DaVinci on Morgan Wallen summer tour
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Lighting design and event production studio, Genetic Productions, provided the lighting gear for Wallen’s inaugural headlining tour, Up Down, which played dates February-April across the US Genetic’s Zac Coren served as lead LD and programmer for the tour, which was designed using Capture Nexum software.
“At Genetic, we do a wide range of events, from corporate meetings and high-end social events to touring, so we needed a fixture that could hold its own in all of those areas, as well as not break the bank,” comments Genetic president Andrew Sparks, who cites versatility and brightness as reasons for deciding to invest in the Artiste DaVinci. “We have found ourselves quickly and easily replacing the other units we had been using with the DaVinci as it is punchier and has more overall features."
Located behind the band as upstage floor lights, the DaVinci's are used to cast aerial effects as well as provide back light for the band. Zac Coren reports, “The DaVinci's have been great by giving many options for creating unique looks for every song. Even when stacking a prism, gobo, and animation wheel, I was still surprised with how much output was left. The strong feature set has been nice as well. Having a fully featured spot fixture in such a compact unit has been awesome.”
In order to make load-ins/outs quicker and more efficient, the DaVinci fixtures are placed on rolling carts at the base of truss towers.
In addition to the DaVinci fixtures, the lighting system includes ACL 360 Bar LED moving battens and Cuepix Blinder WW2 LED-based white light blinders with Arena Par Zoom LED Par lights providing side light.
The Up Down tour concluded on 28 April in Las Vegas, but the Elation rig is back out with Wallen for the duration of Luke Bryan’s What Makes You Country tour, which launched 31 May in Toronto.
(Jim Evans)
