Friday, March 12th, 2010

grandMA2 accompanies Will Young’s “Greatest Hits” Tour

Glen Johnson of i-Lite Ltd, Set and Lighting Designer for the current Will Young’s “Greatest Hits” UK and Irish tour, is using 2 x grandMA2 light consoles to run the show’s lighting. The two are networked together, with the first used as the main console, and the second running in full tracking backup.
Johnson has used [...]

The perfect menu: grandMA2 dined with Mubadala

The Mubadala Development Company, sponsor of Etihad Airways’ Scuderia Ferrari Formula One in Abu Dhabi, recently held its signature dinner at the Emirates Palace. The dinner was arranged inside the world’s largest free standing Dome Truss, built from Eurotruss elements. For control, Lighting Designer Paul Smith chose a grandMA2 system consisting of 1 x [...]

MA Lighting Latin America establishes grandMA2 trainings

Some 50 participants recently attended MA Lighting Latin America’s next grandMA2 open house in São Paulo. On display were grandMA2 light and grandMA2 ultra-light consoles. Next to product presentations a comprehensive training was held by MA’s Latin America Manager, Daniel Ridano and certified MA technicians Paulo Lebrão and William Quintino de Souza (Abilinho).
The grandMA2 presentation [...]

Transcolor trusts in grandMA2

One of the biggest rental companies in Poland ”Transcolor” has extended its equipment inventory to include grandMA2 full-size consoles. It was a logical ‘next step’ for them with grandMA series equipment, having previously used the grandMA full-size ‘series 1’.
Marcin Michna, one of Transcolor’s Lighting Designers explained the reasons for purchasing grandMA2, “After nearly two years [...]

The Market Theatre trusts in grandMA2

The Market Theatre Johannesburg, South Africa, made its choice of new lighting console after researching and testing the various options for nine months.
In a cool historical connection, Dan Riley from DWR Distribution, was involved with the installation of the Market Theatre’s first desk – a Compact 80 – when he worked there as a technician [...]

grandMA2 travels to the Jersey island

A new grandMA2 light console has been installed at Jersey Opera House, specified by Technical Manager Simon Francklin. Francklin has been at the venue for two and a half years, and has been an MA user and advocate for at least the last eight years, since grandMA “Series 1” was released in the UK.
When he [...]