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grandMA leaps to the beat with Randy Jackson
The long-awaited road show ‘Randy Jackson Presents America's Best Dance Crew Live', based on the much-acclaimed MTV series, clearly gets its kicks being run entirely on a grandMA full-size. The theatre-to-theatre U.S. tour will feature a total of five dance crews culled from the first and second seasons.
Co-designer/programmer/operator Mark Jacobson reports that he's controlling all of the lighting, video and audio playback from the grandMA. All of the video for the dance routines," he adds, "was edited along to the music, and some of the songs have intros that involve speaking on-camera, so it has to be in sync."
He continues: "The sound people have a console for levels from my playback, a couple of announcer mics, and a feed from the DJ who plays before the show and during intermission." Jacobson insists he can't think of any unit, other than grandMA, that he would entrust with that much responsibility.
The grandMA console provides immediate, much-sought-out solutions for concert tours, musical events, theatres, clubs, television, amusement parks or cruise ships. It can control moving lights, conventional lights, and effects, as well as LEDs and video, even when working in real time with maximum channel count. The grandMA full-size affords a flexible, ergonomically pleasing programming and operating environment. In addition, it is capable of controlling huge numbers of devices simultaneously.
Jacobson points out that what was unique about the show, besides grandMA's total control, was that it was "high-energy, like nothing I've worked on before. There are always dancers performing at concerts, but in this case, it's only the dancers up on stage."
Jacobson relies on grandMA's precision expertise time and time again. He attests that he wouldn't have allowed any other console to be used on the 2008 Dance Crew tour. "With grandMA, I feel confident every night. And, tour after tour, it's all I've spec'd for the last seven years!"
The controlled lighting equipment consisted besides others of several LED-fixtures and a combination of Martin and HES moving lights. All the lighting equipment was provided by BML - Butch Allen was the co-designer on the project.
5th December 2008
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