LOS ANGELES — All of the lighting, video and audio playback for the road show, Randy Jackson Presents America’s Best Dance Crew Live is being controlled by co-designer/programmer/operator Mark Jacobson on a full-size grandMA console from MA Lighting, and the video and audio, on a Green Hippo Hippotizer, “needed to be sync’d without timecode,” Jacobson said — with little room for error. “All of the video for the dance routines was edited along to the music, and some of the songs have intros that involve speaking on camera, so it has to be in sync.” The road show, based on the MTV series, is a theater-to-theater U.S. tour that features a total of five dance crews culled from the first and second seasons. A.C.T Lighting is the exclusive distributor of the grandMA in North America.
“The sound people have a console for levels from my playback, a couple of announcer mics, and a feed from the DJ who plays before the show and during intermission,” Jacobson said, adding that for this “high-energy” show, he couldn’t think of any unit, other than grandMA, that he would entrust with that much responsibility. “With grandMA, I feel confident every night. And, tour after tour, it’s all I’ve spec’d for the last seven years!”
All the lighting equipment was provided by BML. Butch Allen was the co-designer on the project.
“Mark (Junior) is a very talented and experienced grandMA programmer,” said Bob Gordon, president and CEO of A.C.T Lighting. “He has done several major concert tours over the past eight years with the grandMA and various media servers. Not many people could have done what Junior has done on this one.”
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