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AMG Enters the LED Market With GLP Impressions
Academy Music Group (AMG) has purchased 18 GLP Impression LED RGB lights - for use in O2 Academy venues in Bristol, Liverpool and Newcastle.
These colour-rich fixtures, which produce excellent beam paths, have been supplied and installed by Utopium, AMG's lighting supplier.
AMG's Group technical manager, Ed Jackson, said the decision to invest in the high-powered fixtures became self-evident after seeing them turn up increasingly on touring productions. "Numerous technical managers across AMG venues were also commenting on them, so we knew these were the lights to invest in," he said.
"The reason we are seeing their impact in both the touring and TV industries is because they are the first moving LED light that lighting designers seem unanimously confident in using," he believes. "As a result, these fixtures will improve the house production values."
Jackson said he was particularly impressed by the combination of lightweight/high output, speed of colour change and smoothness of movement, with a complete 660° Pan achievable in just two seconds. "Furthermore, these moving LED lights use very little power for the amount of light they produce and generate minimal heat - and are generally more environmentally friendly than conventional lights."
In addition to low current consumption and heat dissipation, Impression embraces all the other advantages of the LED light source, including immense longevity and output.
"The colours are vivid and the strobing effects can rival conventional strobe lights," notes the AMG man.
A further advantage, he says, is the versatility of the Impressions. "Because they are so light they can be used on low weight-bearing structures, but equally you can stand them on the floor. These attributes mean that we will be able to run the Impressions in the smaller rooms within our venues in a way that we would be unable to with bigger moving lights."
Coinciding with this purchase, AMG has installed an additional motorised truss at the back of the stage at O2 Academy Bristol. Two one-ton CM Lodestars support three three-metre sections of A type truss.
"Further to this we have upgraded to a custom built distro with 36 ways of hard power, meaning that with the Impressions and the new positions that they can be hung from, Bristol has a more diverse offering for incoming productions."
In picture: The new GLP Impression stage lighting at O2 Academy Bristol - and The Wailers performing under it
24th April 2009
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