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Scott Powers Chicago Music Cruise with ChamSys

Christian Wissmuller by Christian Wissmuller
April 30, 2019
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The 20th annual Chicago Music Cruise recently featured a group of leading Chicagoland bands and radio personalities, organized by 7th Heaven. Keeping pace with the hard-driving music notes onboard the cruise was a dynamic and colorful Zach Scott-designed lightshow, run with a ChamSys Maxi Wing and ChamSys Extra Wing Compact.

“Given that space is always an issue in a cruise ship environment, I wanted something with a small travel footprint that would still give me enough power to run a 22-universe show with no hiccups,” said Scott. “I’ve been running shows with the MagicQ MQ 500 Stadium, but size was an issue here. It was also very important that whatever I used had the ability to be up and running quickly from show to show. Having used ChamSys for a long time, I knew that it would do the trick.”

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In addition to his Maxi Wing and Extra Wing, Scott’s system included a MacBook Pro and Elo Touch Screen.
“The MacBook Pro running the MagicQ on PC was the core of the operation,” he said. “I received plots a couple of months prior to the cruise, which gave me ample time to build the rig and preprogram the show. The Maxi Wing is great in this regard, since it lets me do my programming and playback through real faders, buttons and encoder wheels. The transition from pre vis to actually running that show on board the ship went very smoothly.”

Scott ran three different shows, two 60-minute versions and one 90-minute variety, during the cruise. He controlled each show live through the playback faders and cue stack buttons on his Maxi Wing and Extra Wing Compact.

“With 12 faders and 12 executable playbacks, the Extra Wing Compact expanded my options,” he said. “It’s a great tool. I counted on its flash buttons to bump up output at key points, and they are always very responsive. I was also able to execute very smooth fades with them. Dividing my rig between the two wings, I was able to run a full production show in a somewhat restrictive cruise ship setting.”

For Scott, the Chicago Music Cruise offered an opportunity to connect to rock fans in his hometown. “When you go to a concert, people see it and then they’re gone,” he said. “On a cruise, people spend days together, so there’s more interaction. I like that – plus this was a great chance to get away from the Chicago winter weather, too.”

Photo Credit: JPM Photography

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