Comments on: Which Stage Spotlights Should I Use For My Show? http://www.onstagelighting.co.uk/lighting-design/which-spotlights-should-i-use-for-my-stage-show/ Stage Lighting Information and Lighting How To Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:31:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: LD SHARUKH http://www.onstagelighting.co.uk/lighting-design/which-spotlights-should-i-use-for-my-stage-show/comment-page-1/#comment-1958 LD SHARUKH Sun, 15 Feb 2009 23:17:36 +0000 http://www.onstagelighting.co.uk/lighting-design/which-spotlights-should-i-use-for-my-stage-show/#comment-1958 I just lit a three member band yesterday.Believe me when i say it was extremely satisfying. I used four 26 degree profiles and two ten degree profiles. I have lit several bands in my career but yesterday i got it perfect. I rigged 2 26degrees and 1 10degree on each side. They were rigged on the speaker scaffolding. Now usually we always foh using Narrow pars from a distance and most of the time it looks like crap. Yesterday. by using those profiles at a 45' angle from each side and only slightly to the front of the stage I could brightly light all the members without washing out the moving heads or blinding the musicians. It was awesome. I used the 10 degree for the vocalist while using two 26's for the guitar and two for the drummer. I focused these by using one stage left side 26' to focus on to the drummer (on the left) along with one from the right.Similarly for the guitarist on the right of the stage.Thus both got one from almost above and from the opposite side. The Vocalist got 2 10' focused to center. Heres a tip: If you use 2 10' profiles from real close you can get it really bright.Thus in my case i could increase the brightness of only the vocalist.You can use it on a drum kit and even gel it with a red or blue if you wish. In yesterdays show i did not even use the profiles at 50% yet there was plenty of facelight. The musicians thanked me 4 times for the wonderful lighting. They did not feel the heat neither were they blinded. As a lighting designer or a musician I ask you what more do you want from an FOH light. Profiles rock and in a country where everybody uses pars for foh lighting i think yesterday was an eye opener for me. I just lit a three member band yesterday.Believe me when i say it was extremely satisfying. I used four 26 degree profiles and two ten degree profiles. I have lit several bands in my career but yesterday i got it perfect. I rigged 2 26degrees and 1 10degree on each side. They were rigged on the speaker scaffolding. Now usually we always foh using Narrow pars from a distance and most of the time it looks like crap. Yesterday. by using those profiles at a 45′ angle from each side and only slightly to the front of the stage I could brightly light all the members without washing out the moving heads or blinding the musicians. It was awesome. I used the 10 degree for the vocalist while using two 26′s for the guitar and two for the drummer. I focused these by using one stage left side 26′ to focus on to the drummer (on the left) along with one from the right.Similarly for the guitarist on the right of the stage.Thus both got one from almost above and from the opposite side. The Vocalist got 2 10′ focused to center.
Heres a tip: If you use 2 10′ profiles from real close you can get it really bright.Thus in my case i could increase the brightness of only the vocalist.You can use it on a drum kit and even gel it with a red or blue if you wish.

In yesterdays show i did not even use the profiles at 50% yet there was plenty of facelight. The musicians thanked me 4 times for the wonderful lighting. They did not feel the heat neither were they blinded.
As a lighting designer or a musician I ask you what more do you want from an FOH light.

Profiles rock and in a country where everybody uses pars for foh lighting i think yesterday was an eye opener for me.

]]> By: Ian Mackenzie http://www.onstagelighting.co.uk/lighting-design/which-spotlights-should-i-use-for-my-stage-show/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Ian Mackenzie Thu, 12 Jul 2007 16:05:25 +0000 http://www.onstagelighting.co.uk/lighting-design/which-spotlights-should-i-use-for-my-stage-show/#comment-2 Awesome. A blog dedicated to stage lighting! Great idea. We just interviewed a prominent Canadian stage lighting designer as part of our theatre blog's "10 questions" interview series: http://praxistheatre.blogspot.com/2007/07/10-questions-itai-erdal.html Anyway. I'll look forward to reading future posts. Regards, Ian Awesome. A blog dedicated to stage lighting! Great idea.

We just interviewed a prominent Canadian stage lighting designer as part of our theatre blog’s “10 questions” interview series:

http://praxistheatre.blogspot.com/2007/07/10-questions-itai-erdal.html

Anyway. I’ll look forward to reading future posts.

Regards,

Ian

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