US based Lighting Designer Seth Jackson recently used 14 x CycFX 8s on the upstage truss for Alice Cooper’s ‘Raise The Dead’ tour, which also included a number of dates as special guests on Mötley Crüe’s ‘All Bad Things Must Come To An End’ farewell tour.
The CycFX 8 units travelled in Tyler Truss sections and were used for scenarios where space was too tight onstage for any ground-rows to up-light the backdrop … as well as to provide a unique reveal ensuring Cooper’s show had its own distinctive look and feel.
Alice Cooper – known for his bloodthirsty rock shows and elaborate make up … is highly theatrical as well as a diehard rocker!
Seth had always liked DHA’s original ‘digital light curtain’, so when Robe launched the Cyc FX – one of a raft of Robe innovations to hit the market in 2013 – he was “thrilled” to find a modern digital version of that classic effect … that was also robust and built to tour!
“In addition to that,” he states, “It’s a terrific wash fixture that lights a drop really evenly, and the color-system is excellent, with a broad range of pastels right through to deep saturates”.
The CycFX 8s were supplied by Bandit Lites.
This unique product offers an array of individually controllable 15W RGBW LED modules equally spaced along a batten with a fully adjustable 8 – 67 degree zoom. The batten has a very fast 270 degree tilt movement which can be precision indexed or programmed to produce rapid sweeping movements. Pre-set color macros and individual pixel control aid quick and easy programing, and effects like tungsten lamp emulation and fade in/out at 2700K and 3200K are also included.
Photo by Steve Jennings
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