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“The MAC III AirFX has a real dominant beam, it’s nice and bright,” Appelt said, of the 1500W moving head fixture. “We used them as an add-on option for lighting looks really, working with a lot of MAC Auras. The MAC III AirFX were powerful and quite reliable. We used them on these shows only for mid-air effects, but I look forward to also using them as a beam and wash luminaire on other shows.”
The MAC III AirFX’s new optical system enables the fixture to be effectively used for both hard-edge, mid-air effects and broad wash fields.
For the Helene Fischer shows, Appelt had them placed in diagonal side trusses for side projection with more fixtures placed on the downstage edge projecting over the audience.
He also used the stock gobos featured along with MAC III AirFX’s aerial effects wheel throughout the show. “They’re very nice gobos,” he says. “It was nice that it wasn’t necessary to make our own!”
Super bright at nearly 60,000 lumens, the MAC III AirFX is also powerful enough to cut through light from bright LED screens, of which there were many on the Helene Fischer shows.
Besides a large, upstage LED backdrop, an integral part of the set design were two large movable LED side walls, or “doors,” made up of Martin LC Plus Series LED panels. Each door was 6 meters high by approximately 16 meters wide — huge LED wings that could move in and out.
The modular LC panels make it possible to more flexibly integrate light, video and set design and offer key advantages over other types of LED panels such as greater brightness, superb color and brightness uniformity, and easy set up.
“Another advantage of using the LC Series is their low weight,” Appelt says of the panels, which weigh only 11 kg per square meter. Running live images and graphical content onto the LED doors were Maxedias, Martin’s user-friendly media server for media composing and playback. Four Maxedias were used live with two playing back full HD content. All systems were networked and controlled via ArtNet. Kris Van Hullebusch served as Maxedia Support Engineer.
Photos: Manfred Vogel
