This photo was taken at the New York Jets’ holiday party in New Jersey. The venue is top secret! J.E. Hadjoglou of Ages Events set up six SlimPAR 64 and two SlimPAR Pro RGBA wash lights, three Q-Spot 260-LED and two Q-Spot 560-LED moving heads, and one Hurricane Haze 2 haze machine. He also controlled all the […]
Last summer we gave you 3,000 reasons to like us — now we’re giving you 4,000 more! CHAUVET® DJ is giving away $4K in gear just for “liking” us on Facebook. The grand prize winner will receive $2,000 in CHAUVET® DJ gear PLUS and iPad loaded with ShowXpress. You can even win an iPAD loaded […]
Dave Patten and David Ricks of South9 Entertainment took a tour of CHAUVET® HQ to learn more about lights, ShowXpress and how to use both in their video and film work. South9 has since incorporated 4BAR Tri wash lights in at least two of their music videos. One for the Wale (f. Meek Mill) song […]
by Allan Reiss, CHAUVET® DJ Product Manager After months of preparing, the event was finally here — time to start setting up for LDI! Our team arrived at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando and we were eager to start building the CHAUVET® Club/DJ booth. Conceptualizing and designing the booth back at headquarters took […]
We traveled to Orlando, Fla.to take part in one of the industry’s largest trade shows: LDI. Team CHAUVET® spent months preparing for the show and introduced more than a dozen new products to the Club/DJ market. The show took place on Halloween weekend so we gave our booth an “infected” theme in hopes that LDI […]
Throughout the month of October, Paul Jeffries gets a thrill from terrifying people who bravely attempt to make it through the Wells Township Haunted House in Brilliant, Ohio. For this year’s Halloween event, Jeffries constructed an out-of-control, elevator-style ride that uses ShowXpress and a DMX-4 Dimmer/Relay pack to control all of the effects. Those in […]
by Allan Reiss, product manager for CHAUVET® DJs have options when it comes to controlling lighting gear. Traditional control boards give you the feel of hardware as you slide the faders up and down to control the features of your fixtures, while modern software programs let you control your fixtures from your computer or smart phone (it […]
For the past three years, Jim Hollborn has been controlling the lights at Performer’s Edge Dance Center’s annual recital with ShowXpress. The software has simplified the once daunting task of having to create schemes for over 80 different dance pieces which take place during two, three-hour shows. Prior to ShowXpress, Hollborn hired an in-house lighting technician […]
by Allan Reiss, product manager for CHAUVET® One of the highlights of my trip to the 2011 DJ Expo was hosting two ShowXpress seminars: SX Education 101 and SX Education 201. For those not familiar with ShowXpress, it’s a software program that turns almost any computer into a lighting console. You should’ve seen all the […]