CHAUVET Professional Helps Vinny Shaw Keep Pace with Killswitch Engage on Summer Tour DETROIT – It was a reminder to Motor City metalheads why music means so much. From the moment Killswitch Engage took the Filmore stage on June 3 to kick off their summer tour with Machine Head, they transformed the iconic downtown venue into a throbbing hotbed of metallic intensity, complete with their razor-sharp guitar riffs, vicious percussion, and raucous stage diving.
Moving with the multi-platinum band every unabashed step of the way was Vinny Shaw, mashing buttons on his ChamSys console as he busked his way through their jam packed 18-song 75-minute set. There was no let up here! Shaw kept up with his clients note for explosive note, unleashing a fast-moving lightshow with plenty of relentless strobing. “I am a big fan of strobes and strobing yes!” said Shaw. “Whether it’s classic strobe rolls and stabs or creating wipes and patterns, or beam elements, I am strobing. I have sync and random strobe FX for most fixtures in the rig. With Killswitch Engage, we don’t even use a click, so having several different strobe cues to fire easily is key.” Providing firepower for the strobing and the rest of the show was as collection of 26 CHAUVET Professional fixtures supplied by JDI Productions that Shaw tended to keep off the stage deck to provide room for the band.
“KSE is a very physically active group of performers who move around a lot on stage and often dive off the stage,” he said. “This makes it important to keep the lighting in tidy contained areas so the guys can roam freely.” Helping Shaw cover the stage with light as the band jumped and weaved across it were his rig’s 12 Rogue RI FX-Bmoving yokes.
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