Olma created a massive lighting system with more than 100 moving lights - including a total of 40 Clay Paky Stage Zoom 1200 - and 320 conventional Fixtures, as well as complex architectural lighting with LED RGB colour changers, 4 kW Xenon and 2.5 kW HTI fixtures. To control the whole lighting system he used a grandMA full-size and a grandMA light as a back up.
Olma and his programmer Manuel Da Costa gained access to the full lighting system only one day before the show went Live 'on air', so they had little time for programming the show under real conditions. "More or less we did blind programming," Olma explained. "We keep most of our ideas in mind instead of really programming them. I made use of ten Faders with essentials and Manuel had access to basic effects via ten other Faders. It is easy to team up with Manuel and with the grandMA multimedia consoles we can easily do a good live job under these conditions. We'd also like to thank Daniel F. Ridano (technical manager MA lighting, Latin America) and Bruno Santaguida Aversa (Luzmila Iluminacion SA, Mexico) for taking great care of us and their great support."
Luzmila Iluminacion SA, supplied the grandMA consoles for the Red Bull X-Fighters event.
(Chris Henry)
