The Learn Stage Lighting Podcast

We often encounter stage that have no depth, sometimes they are extremely wide. How do you make the stage look deeper? In this episode will give you some tips and talk about some products that can help you achieve this! 

Chapters:

00:58 Introduction

02:29 Lighting When Your Stage Has No Depth

03:32 What is a Flex Stand?

06:35 No stage depth? What do we do?

06:55 Use Flex Stands or similar

8:40 Use backlight

11:32 Use fixtures that cover a lot of space

15:36 You can also use Pixel Strips

16:56 Closing remarks

 LINKS:

Gamma Pixels Strips: https://www.learnstagelightinggear.com/search?options%5Bprefix%5D=last&pf_t_category=Pixel&pf_v_vendor=GAMMA+LED+Vision&q=Gamma+pixel+strips

Eliminator Frost FX Bar: https://www.learnstagelightinggear.com/products/frost-fx-bar-rgbw

Chauvet Colorband Pix-M:  https://www.learnstagelightinggear.com/search?q=colorband+pix+m

Flex stand https://www.learnstagelightinggear.com/products/flexstand

Visit our sites/channels here:

Learn Stage Lighting Gear https://www.learnstagelightinggear.com

Learn Stage Lighting: https://learnstagelighting.com/about/ 

Learn Stage Lighting Labs: https://www.learnstagelightinglabs.com 

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/LearnStageLighting/featured

Lighting in smaller venue can be quite challenging, in this episode David will help you in making the right Gear decisions as well some insight on the do's and don'ts for smaller venues.

00:58 Introduction

02:39 What do you need to know when you work in the smallest of Venues?

04:27 What kind of lights do you need to use in a smaller space?

07:24 Recommended lights for small venues or spaces.

14:01 Controls for small venues

21:55 Closing

 LINKS:

Chauvet ILS: https://www.chauvetdj.com/ils/

ADJ WMX1: https://aboveavl.com/products/wmx1-lighting-controller-1 

 Light key https://lightkeyapp.com/en

Enttec EMU: https://www.enttec.com/product/lighting-control-software/emu-sound-to-light-controller/

Stomp Light: https://www.stomplight.com

Maestro DMX https://maestro-dmx.limbicmedia.ca/sales-page1642090377010

ADJ Strip Lights: https://aboveavl.com/search?q=adj+strip+lights&options%5Bprefix%5D=last

Stealth Spot: https://www.aboveavl.com/products/stealth-spot 

Stealth Wash: https://www.aboveavl.com/products/stealth-wash-zoom

Eliminator Products: https://www.aboveavl.com/search?q=Eliminator&options%5Bprefix%5D=last

Visit our sites/channels here:

Learn Stage Lighting Gear https://www.learnstagelightinggear.com

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/LearnStageLighting/featured

Today we’ll be talking a little bit about video. Why video? These disciplines complement each other and work closely together.

The start of Todays show comes from the latest issue of the PLSN Magazine and of what’s going on in the world featuring some new gear from ADJ, info on LED Walls  and how to combine Video with DMX Fixtures.

00:00 Introduction 

07:40 Info about the Coldplay Sphere’s

08:52 Video is Lighting and how to integrate video into lighting and vice-versa

10:02 2 ways a video product can get signal

11:36 Pixel Strips/Pixel Mapping

13:50 Combining Video (Normal video Playback) with DMX fixtures, how does that work? 

14:52 Using Onyx (Dylos) or Enttec ELM where it receives content from the video team

16:50 Diving deeper into LED Walls / Selling LED Walls

22:40 What’s new in Lighting? The ADJ WMX1 Controller

Links:

https://plsn.com/articles/video-technology/coldplays-inflatable-led-spheres/

https://www.prg.com/en/about/latest-news/lsa-coldplay-article

https://plsn.com/archives/august-2022/video-is-lighting-approaching-video-as-a-lighting-designer/

https://aboveavl.com/products/wmx1-lighting-controller-1

Welcome back to the 4th time we try and do a Podcasting series, this time with a new name called “What’s Happening in Stage Lighting”.

In this Episode, we’ll be talking about House Light Controls, some new Consoles from https://obsidiancontrol.com , Discussing Enttec’s new version of DMXIS called EMU and talk about integrating Obsidian Netron Nodes with House Light Controllers from Springtree

If you enjoyed this Podcast, please give us a review here: www.Learnstagelighting.com/itunes

What are the differences between stage lighting and film lighting...and how do they mix?

I recently saw someone critique some lighting from a concert they went to, and I've got some thoughts on what they did right and what they did WRONG!

Here we answer questions from some popular Facebook groups and ramble on about even more!

Comparing (2) LED stage lights is easy....or is it? In this episode, we talk lumens, lux, quality, and more!

Today we'll dive in to some Q&A from a Facebook group and answer some questions that might not be so obvious. Tune in!

It's no secret that video and lighting continue to merge together. In this episode we take a look at how this happened, why it matters to you, and how you can use it to make your next event better!