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Music Festivals Wet Electric and Band Splash Use CHAUVET Professional Fixtures

Christian Wissmuller by Christian Wissmuller
June 7, 2018
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Music festivals Wet Electric and Band Splash recently used a versatile lighting rig supplied by Creative BackStage that featured CHAUVET Professional Maverick, Rogue, and STRIKE fixtures. 

“We designed the rig to be flexible enough to use at both festivals, without taking away from the lighting of either event,” said John Garberson of Creative BackStage. “Wet Electric was the first day. When it ended we took away the DJ booth and the side 20mm LED video screens. Then we moved the front deck lighting to the back. Other than that, we used all the same lighting positions for both festivals.”

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“The versatility of the Maverick MK2 Spot and Rogue R2 Washes in our rig were a major help, allowing us to change up our looks for each festival with features like the gobos and prism of the Mavericks, and the wide zoom range of the Rogues,” continued Garberson. “The STRIKE 4 blinders were nice, because we could create lots of different looks by controlling each cell individually.  We had fun shining our lights in the pool area where people were splashing around.”

Garberson and the Creative BackStage team worked their magic on a stage that measured 56’ x 44’ with a 30’ high roof. The pool, the largest wave pool in the U.S., measures 480’ long by 240’ wide.

Garberson and his team also planned to create some high-impact looks for the festival. They had nine Rogue R2 Wash units and six STRIKE 4 multi-formatted fixtures, as well strobes and beams, positioned on the front truss.  There were also three Rogue R2 Washes and one Maverick MK2 Spot on the side truss, and three Rogue R2 Washes and one Maverick MK2 Spot flown on the mid-stage truss.  

This configuration created a continuous frame of light around the stage that helped focus attention on the performances. The intense output of the fixtures in the rig stood out even against the Arizona sun, a critically important attribute since the festival began at 1 p.m. 

“Being that this took place in a water park, there is a lot of visual distraction away from the stage,” said Garberson. “Our goal was to make a strong statement with light around the stage. For Wet Electric, the headliner went on as the sun was going down, unlike Band Splash where the headliner was at night. We needed to have a lot of looks that worked during the day. We did that with our LED screens and eye candy from the lighting fixtures.  The STRIKE 4s were clearly bright enough to be impactful in the daytime.” 

The challenges involved in setting up this unique event almost prevented it from happening before it even got started.

“In our first year, the city didn’t green tag the power until about 30 minutes before the gates opened,” recalled Garberson. “They were leery of an event like this in a water park, but once they understood how the power was going to be run to the stage and also our policy about no one wet on stage, they were fine.”

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