These two Pixelation Luminaires are quickly making their way around the world, specified on high-profile events that you can read about on this website (click on the LD's highlighted name for a link to the story and photos in our news section). Here's what the pros-who-know say what SHOWPIX and StudioPix can do for their event.
LD Johnny R. Goode, Disco Biscuits tour:
"I fell in love with the StudioPix as a washlight at first.
I like its even spread. There are no holes, there is no drop off of light – it’s a completely even wash. It’s the best washlight because I don’t have to have a direct path for it – I can put it on the side of the stage and it can still go around a member of the band and still light another member on the other side and because it doesn’t have a sharp edge, it doesn’t create sharp shadows of the objects obstructing the light’s path."
"One thing I’ve found is that with a normal incandescent lamp, you can tell the color temperature drops between old and new lamps. With the StudioPix it doesn’t matter, the LEDs are all the same constant color temperature, there’s no drop between old and new units, and every day they come on and they’re the same and in a year they’re all going to look the same. There’s no worry so that’s a very good benefit to the light and it helps with the consistency that I’m looking for."
"One of the more exceptional qualities of the StudioPix was the ability to snap change color. Instantaneous is more like it; yes, I realize that they’re LED, and yes, I realize that my photoreceptors are still going to be processing the color shift milliseconds after it really happens. You just can’t comment on the brilliance of the fixture’s illumination quality until your rods and cones have absorbed it.
"Something that I never thought I would like from the StudioPix - the built-in animations - I actually very much appreciated during the shows. I was surprised at how bright they were as well, and I was surprised how good they looked both coming from the fixture, and from the affect they had on the line of the audience. It probably helped that the lighting designer knew which ones to use at the right time, too - you know, that crazy design sense! The intensity of the StudioPix’ animations added a level of art to the overall picture that completely fit the music’s intensity, and they were used well. The LED quality of light just adds such a 'magical' quality to the atmosphere at a show, especially at such intensity; it may sound like an elementary thing to say, but LED light appears so worldly different than arc light to the audience. It vibrates; you have to keep the way the eye works in mind when designing, and the StudioPix (and similar LED fixtures) provides another quality of light to consider."
