Felix Peralta, who shares lighting director duties with Kevin Lawson on The Sing Off used a pair of grandMA2 light consoles for show. "We made the jump to grandMA2 with the Miss America pageant this year," Peralta reports. "I haven't gone back since. I'm a big fan of the grandMA2 and all the new software features. We used 48 universes of DMX to accommodate the gear-heavy music series. The show file gets bigger and bigger with each episode; we've compiled hundreds of effects."
Twenty seven Clay Paky Alpha Profile 700 and 30 Sharpy fixtures were used for the show. "A.C.T demo'd Sharpy for me, and I instantly fell in love with all the possibilities of their effects," he recalls. "I liked the throw, the speed of movement, the tightness of the beam and the little prism you can slide in to create a break up."
For the Emmy Awards Peralta, Kevin Lawson and Tom Beck served as lighting directors with Allen Branton lighting designer. Two grandMA2 lights acted as the main consoles for the production with a grandMA2 full-size on hand for back up. The primary desks ran 24 universes of DMX.
(Jim Evans)
