Pathway Connectivity Launches New Website

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Pathway Connectivity is excited to announce the launch of their entirely refreshed website www.pathwayconnect.com. The new site has been designed to offer a first-class user experience with a modern design and improved navigation for fast and easy access to product information.

To help the user navigate, Pathway products are grouped together into categories, allowing viewers to easily browse, search and compare products. Product pages include quick overviews with images along with more detailed information, such as drawings, technical documents, and CSI specs.

New to the site is a Submittal Spec Sheet tool. With this tool, users are guided to find the exact catalog # of the required product, showing all available options. The upgraded site also features educational content, including a DMX512 overview section with helpful information on how to best use Pathway products for various lighting applications.

Huge ADJ LED Video Wall Provides Backdrop For Purpose-Built Community Studio In Atlanta

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A new professional recording studio has been opened in Atlanta, GA to provide local businesses and creatives a turnkey solution for producing high quality video content. Anthony Murray Studios features a multipurpose space with a large ADJ high resolution LED video wall backdrop on one side and a green screen setup on the other. The studio is equipped with high quality video capture and editing equipment as well as a versatile lighting rig comprised of fixtures from ADJ as well as sister brand Elation Professional.

Conceived by speaker, author and faith leader, Anthony Murray – founder of the Oasis Church in Greater Atlanta – the new studio is designed to provide individuals and organizations in the city with the tools to produce high quality video content quickly and easily. The facility is available for rent to anyone who wants to use it, but will also be utilized by Anthony’s church, and others in the area, as a resource for recording video sermons and other faith-based media.

Mixed White or Not Mixed White, That Is the Question

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The debate over what LED system produces the best white is a difficult one to resolve. Is crisp brightness and power most important? Or the ability to create a variety of shades and deeper colors? In the end, it all depends on your needs.

Join Alistair Smyth and Frederik Afif on the September 9th Elation Coffee Break as they scrutinize the Fuze Spot™ and Fuze Profile™ with framing, versatile LED moving heads with RGBMA color mixing systems that can mix any shade of white a designer desires, or just as easily mix deep saturates or soft-field pastels.

ADJ Fixtures Chosen For Felix Jaehn DJ Mag Livestream From Bootshaus in Cologne, Germany

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Coinciding with the voting for its Top 100 Clubs poll, DJ Magazine’s Virtual World Tour saw a line-up of big-name DJs live stream sets from some of the most iconic nightclub venues in the world. Bootshaus, located in an industrial area along the River Rhine in Cologne, Germany, has regularly appeared in the Top 100 Clubs list, ranking number 6 in 2020, up two places from the year before. For its edition of the Top 100 Clubs Virtual World Tour, the club partnered with German DJ and producer Felix Jaehn who has achieved worldwide chart success with a number of tracks, remixes and collaborations. Arguably his biggest hit, a remix of Jamaican singer Omi’s ‘Cheerleader’, made it to #1 in 55 countries, including 6 weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. As a DJ, Felix has toured extensively, playing some of the biggest festivals and clubs around the world.

The task of designing and implementing the technical production for Felix’s DJ Mag livestream fell to Guido Schütz and his company LaserFrame together with regular collaborator Patrick Hirt of Creative Sounds. Having served as the exclusive technical service providers for Bootshaus for some time, Guido, Patrick and their teams are responsible for designing, maintaining and operating the club’s house rig as well as covering any additional requirements for special projects and one-off events. They also have extensive experience of production design for livestreaming, having previously partnered on the creation of ‘The Tunnel’, ‘The Cube’, ‘The Wharf’ and ‘The Tower’, which provided a wide variety of local DJs and brands innovative studio setups for their live streams and video recording sessions.

Elation Professional: Elite Multimedia and Elation to Showcase New Lighting Gear at August 31st Open House in Nashville

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Nashville-based Elite Multimedia Productions has added Elation Artiste Monet™, Artiste Mondrian™ and Protron Eclypse™ LED luminaires to its extensive inventory of professional live event lighting and is teaming with Elation to showcase the new gear at an Open House event August 31st at the Elite facility in Nashville.

“We are delighted to be partnering with our friends at Elite to demonstrate some of our latest lighting innovations,” stated Elation National Sales Manager John Dunn. “Our close relationship with Elite delivers significant value to customers in the form of more innovative products and greater service levels and we look forward to continuing that collaboration at this Open House.”

Thomas Gerdon designs TV Productions with GLP Creative Light 1 Plus

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Lighting designer Thomas Gerdon, from GERDON design, has recently taken several opportunities to use the new creative LED system Creative Light 1 Plus from GLP in various German TV productions—and has been extremely enthusiastic about its versatile application.

In the RTL game show ‘Du musst dich entscheiden’ (‘You have to decide’), working as lighting designer and lighting cameraman, he designed both the main set and a separate smaller set that was used for original soundtracks with the compact LED systems. “The small set was simply a less appealing conference room within the studio extension. The challenge was to turn it into a TV-compatible set—quickly and with a small budget that also looked like a show. We got around this by placing a couple of flight cases in the background and attaching the magnetic Creative Light 1 Plus to them. Light moods were set by remote control and everything was ready in five minutes,” said Gerdon.

THE ‘ADJ REUNITED THRU LIGHT’ TOUR IS COMING TO A CITY NEAR YOU!

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The past 18 months have been challenging for everyone, especially those working in the entertainment industry. With live events taking place again, there is a huge appetite for re-connecting face-to-face with industry friends and colleagues. Having spent the pandemic staying connected and providing support to customers via email and phone calls, the members of the ADJ team are looking forward to hitting the road to reconnect in person with customers old and new.

Everyone involved with lighting, video or audio production at rental houses, integrators, theatres, houses of worship, mobile entertainers, schools and event companies are invited to attend one of these free events. Each tour stop will feature product demonstrations, hands-on product training with the new LINK controller, offer the opportunity to see new unreleased products, provide plenty of chances for informal networking, and a free product prize drawing for everyone who registers in advance and then attends in person.

Cumberland Theatre Chooses ADJ’s Focus Spot 5Z

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Established in 1988, the Cumberland is western Maryland’s only professional theatre, which produces an annual season of eight in-house productions. The theatre moved to its current location, a 200-seat converted church building, in 1991 and has become a staple of the local arts scene. Led by co-Creative Directors Kimberli Rowley and Rhett Wolford since 2016, the theatre produces a wide variety of shows, including both musicals and straight plays. Every production is developed in-house, with Rhett taking the lead on scenic design as well as technical aspects such as lighting.

When he took on the role of co-Creative Director, Rhett found himself working in a theatre that had an antiquated lighting setup that had not been upgraded since the building opened in the early ‘90s. Over the past five years he has led a program of technical renovations, as budgets have allowed, to introduce DMX control and LED light sources throughout the theatre. The latest phase of this upgrade process was to add in moving head luminaires that would provide added flexibility and creative potential, both for the productions – such as Ring of Fire – when Rhett serves as Lighting Designer himself and for those when outside LDs are brought in to add their creative flair to a show.

David Johnson Joins ACT Entertainment in New Post of Senior Vice President Sales

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ACT Entertainment, the new entity formed by the ACT Lighting, RapcoHorizon and AC Power Distribution brands, announces the appointment of David Johnson to the new post of Senior Vice President Sales. Johnson is well known for managing the Live Design International (LDI) franchise.

“When we rebranded as ACT Entertainment, it was clear that we needed strong leadership in the sales department to bring all our world-class sales forces together across the organization and ensure their continued success and the high level of customer service for which we’re known,” says Ben Saltzman, CEO of ACT Entertainment. “David has 30 years’ experience in the industry and is a proven team leader. He’s well liked and has a broad knowledge of all the disciplines in which ACT Entertainment operates in. He knows the business front-to-back and side-to-side and understands the playing field in all its dimensions.”