"This is my second year with the tour and this year we really wanted to move the audience with the music," began Quisberg. "While we wanted really big moments, we also wanted intimate and theatrical moments as well, and we needed the lighting to be a direct reflection of the emotion inside the lyrics to draw the audience in. Working with Elite Multimedia, they really listened to what we were trying to accomplish and they provided us with the perfect lighting package to create the show we wanted."
With the design concepts fully understood, Elite Multimedia began working with Quisberg and provided the tour with a full lighting package that included Clay Paky Mythos, Sharpy and A.leda Wash K5 luminaires, along with Showline SL NITRO 510 strobes, Martin Atomic 3000 strobes, Chauvet SlimPAR HEX 6 LED PAR fixtures, and a GrandMA console for control.
Quisberg continued, "When we first started looking at the lighting, we wanted a profile that could cut through in arena and festival environments, but then also work well in a more intimate theatrical setting. For this, we decided on the Clay Paky Mythos because within its different gobos there are two different prisms that allow us to create a lot of effects that you can't do with other fixtures. Also, because we have a Clay Paky family of fixtures, we are able to color mix the saturation with great consistency. They accent each other very well between the LED and lamp sources, and we love the A.leda K5 pixel mapping abilities."
(Jim Evans)
