Tony Mirador is the LD of the light show and senior designer of the sound and video system for the night spot, located at Rainbow Harbor in Long Beach, CA. He's also president of Akroz Professional, AKA The DJ Store Inc., the company responsible for the install. Says Mirador, "The DL1s are situated over the dance floor on the outer perimeter. The DL1s are also mounted to individual elevator lifts to bring them up or down from the ceiling to gain additional angles. This works great with the Digital Eye camera that is equipped with these DL1s - you can get crowd shots that are close and personal. About 60 percent of the time the DL1s are doing basic projections on fixed screens. Other times they are used for dynamic special effects at any given area as well as functioning as a conventional moving head fixture."
Mirador is using Catalyst content from the stock media libraries as well as content from Edirol DV-7 content servers. He's currently operating the show on a Hog II PC. "For now I am running the show until we get everything totally dialled in and getting our crew up to par on this exciting new technology."
He makes frequent use of the Digital Eye Technology, he says. "We use it all the time. We zoom in on a gogo dancer and then project her as a gobo, for example. We get phenomenal reactions. Why did we not have light effects like this during the Rave era? I would like to thank Michael Viscuso, the owner of V2O, for always believing my vision on what it takes to be among the finest night clubs in the world."
(Sarah Rushton-Read)
