Keith Hoagland, lighting designer and director for Aldean's Burn It Down tour, understands this feeling quite well. Hoagland had his rig all set for the tour when he was introduced to the Rogue RH1 Hybrid from Chauvet Professional.
Hoagland changed his rig and added 90 Rogue RH1 Hybrids supplied by Bandit Lites. He flew the moving fixtures around his entire aerial system, which was made up of diagonally arranged truss over both sides of the stage as well as centre stage. He also positioned Rogue units on both sides of the upstage floor.
"My goal was to be able to paint the entire stage with a hard-edge fixture from all angles on this project," he explained. "I needed a hard edge that was also going to be flexible enough to do some fun gobo shapes in the air as well as paint the staging area for camera background work. Naturally, I wanted to do this in a cost effective way, but of course I did not under any circumstances want to have look that said, 'I wish I had a bigger budget to get something better.'"
The Rogue RH1 Hybrid did more than allow Hoagland to paint the stage and audience with brilliant colourful beams; it also provided him with new creative opportunities courtesy of the layered prisms. "I really like the looks you can get by layering both prisms, especially when it is slowed down," he said. "The prisms are really smooth on the rotation and they add a real extra level of depth to your show. I use this effect for one song; it really layers nicely for camera work and effect."
(Jim Evans)
