The theatre has purchased seven Leader Light Stage Wash RGBAW fixtures, a 60cm long, 12cm wide, 12.5cm deep LED batten that incorporates five LED colours - red, green, blue, amber and white - to give a higher output and more flexible colour options than the more familiar three-colour RGB fixtures. The Stage Wash is easy to control, using standard 5-pin XLR DMX connectors, and has the familiar LED virtue of using less energy - 110W maximum - than equivalent tungsten fixtures.
Barry Hope, technical manager for the Birmingham Hippodrome, describes the Stage Wash as a "great product - light weight and easily controlled". He also praises the fixtures versatility, commenting on how it is "easily adaptable with different lens options".
In Birmingham, the fixtures are now in use "all the time, to backlight the white cyclorama" and for other corporate lighting projects.
(Jim Evans)
