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Here are some initial thoughts regarding some of the things I saw at the Live Design International (LDI) trade show. The Clay-Paky Stormy strobe Finally, someone realized that some LDs just do not like the look of LEDs in a direct view application. I love the TMB Flare, but it is certainly one of many direct view LED fixtures on the market. The Stormy (Clay-Paky has chosen an interesting naming convention for its new fixture lines) is an LED strobe that looks like what Clay-Paky calls “a classic strobe”, but everyone will inevitably compare to a Martin Atomic 3000. It certainly bears a superficial resemblance to that fixture, but where the xenon discharge lamp would be, there is a strip… Read More »LDI: Part I

Here are some exciting production-related news things, which may or may not be new, but are at least awesome. – The Martin MAC Quantum Profile debuts at LDI in a few weeks, and Blueshift Design will be there with Elite Multimedia looking at gear. This will be Martin’s first foray into a full-featured LED profile, and I’m excited to see what their engineers bring to the table in terms of brightness, quality of light, and color-mixing. – The ETC ColorSource PAR is now a thing, and it has, unusually for an LED PAR fixture, a lime-green emitter and an extra red emitter. ETC’s literature on the device seems to indicate that both red sources emit the same wavelength, which is… Read More »BSD at LDI, and other acronyms