Altitude Trampoline Parks recently launched its first “super park,” a huge location filled with trampolines and other features illuminated by almost 200 ADJ lighting fixtures.
Building on the success of its flagship venue in Forth Worth, Texas, the brand now has 67 locations open in the continental USA, as well as an additional 10 overseas parks.
ADJ dealer and equipment installer Studio Light and Sound, owned and managed by Gregg Sanford, has been responsible for supplying and installing the lighting rigs in many of Altitude’s existing parks and at the end of last year was awarded the contract to exclusively supply all future locations.
“I started out my lighting journey with ADJ,” Sanford explains, “and I now wouldn’t dream of using another supplier. When I was a teenager I made my mom and dad’s basement into a nightclub and all the kids from school would come over to hang out down there. I bought a 300W halogen ADJ Vertigo lighting effect and ever since then I’ve stuck with ADJ. Why would I go anywhere else, when I’m happy with what I’ve got? Alfred (Gonzales, ADJ’s national sales manager) and his team really look after me, I know if I ever need anything all I need to do is call. I also know the product range inside out, which is really important. I wouldn’t have that same relationship with the company or knowledge of the product if I carried lots of different brands. Put it this way: I won’t go anywhere else, because I get taken care of by ADJ like family!”
The first of Altitude’s “super park” locations is a 44,000 sq. ft. facility in Gastonia, North Carolina. To illuminate its features, as well as provide effect lighting for its weekend evening DJ-led sessions, Gregg and his team supplied and installed a total of 182 ADJ lighting, atmospheric and control products. Together these completely transform the vast industrial building into a bright and energetic space filled with beams, GOBO projections and vibrant colors.
The workhorse of the lighting rig is ADJ’s Mega Hex Par, which packs 5 x 6-Watt RGBAW+UV LEDs into a compact and versatile wash fixture. At Altitude Gastonia Gregg and his team have deployed a vast number of the units to cover a variety of different duties. These include washing the white-painted ceiling with swathes of richly-saturated color, as well as warming the truss structure which supports the Ninja Warrior course and illuminating the entrance registration area.
“I love the Mega Hex Pars and we sell a ton of them,” enthuses Sanford. “They are incredibly good value, really the best price point of a fixture of that class, and also offer really good coverage. The beam is a nice even wash with no hot spots and the color mixing is fantastic, the UV element really makes the colors pop. They are also very versatile fixtures, which means we can use them all over the jump parks. A great example is the entrance registration area, we use them set to color macro 32 which is a combination of the UV, blue and white LED elements. This allows the staff to see what they’re doing when they are counting money and typing, but it also means their shirts glow in the UV and the area feels vibrant and not clinical.”
UV plays a big part in creating the atmosphere throughout the whole building as many of the trampolines and other pieces of equipment are decorated in fluorescent paint. To cause this to really pop, as well as to make guests’ clothing glow, the Studio Light and Sound team have filled the space with no less than 32 of ADJ’s ECO UV Bar Plus IR blacklight bar fixtures. Each 1m (39.5”) bar packs in 18 x 3-Watt UV LEDs, providing a beam angle of 120-degrees for coverage of a large area. In addition, 10 of ADJ’s UV COB Cannon fixtures have also been installed where a particular large throw was required. With a tighter beam angle of 33-degrees and an extremely powerful 100W COB UV LED engine, these potent fixtures ensure that every corner of the huge building is bathed with UV light.
As well as the UV, the trampolines are also washed with color by a number of ADJ COB Cannon Wash fixtures. These powerful units feature an extremely potent 150-Watt RGBA COB LED and generate an even wash with a wide 80-degree beam angle.
