The 2011 summer European festival tour hit 20 major music festivals and one-offs beginning in Rome and ending in Hungary, drawing legions of fans to their monumental catalogue of releases and dynamic, marathon live shows.
Steve Baird, longtime wysiwyg User and lighting designer for the band comments, "Festival tours are always lots of fun. Knowing that I had the challenge of never getting the same lighting system twice, I needed to decide whether to busk, or run my show cue to cue style.
"For Dream Theater, I built a show cue to cue, using spot, wash and LED type moving fixtures with wysiwyg R27. After I programmed the initial show, I advanced each event, got the technical spec sheets, drew up each layout in wysiwyg and then cloned my show to all the different layouts.
"Having wysiwyg on the road was the right choice because most of the festival designers use wysiwyg too, and they were more than happy to share their files with me. This was a huge benefit, especially for the larger shows such as High Voltage Festival in London's Victoria Park and Sonisphere in Metz, where the fixture patch and position distances were all set. "
(Jim Evans)
