We each have a past. Some more shady than others. And when it comes to the LEDs we use in ETC fixtures you might be surprised to learn where each comes from. Surprisingly, not a single one was created with theatrical lighting in mind.
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There’s no doubt about it—LEDs are shaking up the industry as we know it. There is a lot to be excited about as venues make the transition from tungsten light sources to LED. One of the largest areas of impact is color capabilities.
ETC light fixtures have long lived in entertainment venues and retail spaces. Those two worlds collided as Jordan’s Furniture began building the world’s largest indoor ropes course as a part of its New Haven store.
A leading pioneer in the theatre lighting industry, Swiss-born Max Keller has been offering creative and technical solutions for the stage for more than 40 years.
Until the fall of 2016, ETC’s Town Square was lit using 251 conventional fixtures. With the shift in lighting fixture technology, it was only a matter of time before the entire space would be modified to include ETC’s newer LED fixtures. Watch this time-lapse video as a small team performs the...
Welcome to Eos on Broadway, where we take a look at the behind-the-scenes control that makes a large-scale show tick. In this installment, Eos programmer Scott Kearns Tusing talks about the controls work that went into bringing the musical Anastasia to Broadway.The production opened on April 24th...
Source Four is the most popular brand of lighting fixtures in the industry, with more than 3.5 million units sold since the tungsten model was first introduced at the LDI tradeshow in 1992. In a world of fast-changing trends and frequent product replacement, Source Four fixtures have remained the...
I owe you an apology if you saw the title of this post and clicked on it assuming I was going to reveal a well-guarded secret and give you the instructions on how to make your own Source Four LED. I hate to crush your dreams, but I’m not going to reveal any trade secrets here. However, if you’ve...
Sometimes chance encounters turn into lifelong friendships and so it was for a young Jeff Ravitz. In the late ‘70s he was working with the Chicago band Styx and they had a show in Madison’s Civic Center. While he was setting up his front of house consoles—a standard two-scene preset linked to a...
The residents of the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul offset their harsh winters with a vibrant year-round arts scene. The great twentieth-century industrialists who made their fortunes in flour, cattle and steel were also noted philanthropists whose legacy survives today in the many...