LIGHT DESIGN’S LATEST INVESTMENT

Light Design becomes the first company in the UK to stock Claypaky Sharpy Plus fixtures, harnessing their capabilities at the 16th UK Festival Awards.

Light Design has increased its lighting stock with the investment of Claypaky Sharpy Plus fixtures. “We were in the market for a powerful beam spot hybrid fixture that could perform well on a festival stage for our busy summer festival season, but be equally at home during the winter months doing corporate and theatre work ensuring full asset utilisation,” Light Design’s Terry Lewsey opened. “The Sharpy Plus was a perfect fit for us, due to it being the only fixture we had seen that could do both Spot and Beam jobs equally as well and be a true hybrid.” Fitted with a 330W X8 HRI Sirius Osram Lamp as its light output whilst having no hotspots in spot mode, Lewsey dubbed the fixture “impressive”.

He explained: “The fixture also has CMY, 15 colours on three wheels along with two CTO filters, 26 gobos across rotation and static gobo wheels, two prisms – four-facet and eight-facet, both of which can be overlaid – with frost filters, animation wheels and a three-36° zoom. Weighing only 23kg, the purchase was a “no brainer” for Lewsey. “We had previously seen the fixture in March 2019 and were about to order then, but due to a change in UK distributors, we had to wait until Claypaky confirmed who would be taking over the UK market. As soon as we found out A.C. Entertainment Technologies had taken on the distribution, I called Jonathan Walters at AC and gave him our first order of 18 Sharpy Plus.”

As soon as the fixtures landed, they were straight out on their first project – The UK Festival Awards 2019 at the Troxy London. Light Design supplied and designed the lighting and video for the show on behalf GoTo Live. A total of 18 Claypaky Sharpy Plus fixtures were installed, along with eight Robe LED Wash 1200s and uplighters to compliment the Troxy’s in-house rig to create the room ambience, all operated from Avolites Tiger Touch II, by Light Design’s Kostas Ntounis.

The video design was centred around a 7m by 3.5m 6mm LED screen, which ran all the show content, VTs from Hippo Amba+ media servers operated by Phil Blue, with video specialist Transition Video being brought in for the show, supplying a bullet camera package for the Scratch Perverts live DJ performance.

Lewsey concluded: “Light Design would like to congratulate all the nominees and award winners as well as the UK Festival Awards and GoTo Live on another successful show. We would also like to thank Claypaky and A.C Entertainment Technologies for the fast turnaround and excellent service in delivering our new Sharpy Plus fixtures.”

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