With the 51st Super Bowl set to take place in February at the NRG Stadium in Houston, TX, local venues are preparing. The new downtown nightclub VrSi features 172 ADJ AV6 LED video panels.
The club’s owners brought in Mark Tristan of Tri Star Installations to design and install the audio, video, and lighting systems.
“The owners were looking to do something different,” Mark told us, “an LED wall video-based system, which no one else has done in the Houston area. So, we looked at all the different panels that were available from various manufacturers, including the ADJ AV6 that had just come onto the market at the time. Its specification met what we were looking for and its price point is really good for a panel offering 6mm pitch, so we decided it was the best option for the project.”
A total of 172 AV6 panels were installed in VrSi – arranged across five separate sections – to create a totally immersive video experience. At the front of the venue, two large screens drop down from the ceiling, flanking the DJ booth. A further, smaller, screen then sits between them, above the DJ. The impressive installation is completed by two more, longer and thinner screens, which sit above the two bars at either side of the main space.
One of Mark’s concerns when undertaking the installation was to ensure that each of the separate screens were kept level. To achieve this, he decided to run a continuous length of Global Truss America square trussing right across the back of the venue. He then used ADJ’s AV6RB1 rigging bars to hang each of the three separate front screen sections from the truss, which meant that all three screens were perfectly level.
To further enhance the video system, the Tri Star Installations team also specified and installed a collection of lighting fixtures. Hung from the ceiling, at either side of the dancefloor, are two trusses each of which carry three ADJ Vizi Beam 5RX moving head fixtures.
In-between the Vizi Beam 5RXs on the central trusses are ADJ Freq Matrix Quad RGBW LED strobe fixtures. These units are designed to provide intense strobing effects, as well as colored chasing patterns, to compliment the moving beams and LED screen visuals. The lightshow is then completed by four of Elation Professional’s impressive Sniper 2R laser-like beam projectors. The Snipers are mounted above the main screens, two on each side, angled towards the dancefloor to create stunning mid-air effects.
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