Chauvet Professional & ChamSys light up Sunset Groove in Namibia

Hundreds flooded Longbeach, Namibia to witness talented acts such as Dwson, Dreece, ZEF, Housecat and many more as they took the stage at Sunset Groove. The stage was rigged with Chauvet Professional and ChamSys for control. While Chauvet Professional handled the lighting, Allen & Heath took care of the audio with the SQ at Front-of-House.

The entire lighting rig for the event was made up of Chauvet Professional fixtures, controlled through Chauvet Professional Net-XII Art-Net. Their team utilized 2 Colorado PXL Curve 12s, which is a fully pixel-mappable motorized IP65-rated RGBW LED batten with individual control of zoom, tilt and colour across the independent heads. They were complimented by 2 of the Chauvet Professional Vesuvio II. These touring-grade smoke machines illuminate bursts of fog with advanced RGBA+UV LED colour mixing, providing ferocious effects for events and performances.  2 Chauvet Professional Maverick MK Pyxis moving heads completed the look with their distinctive ring of nine 15W RGBW LEDs. With a zoom range of 4.9° to 58.4° and built-in colour macros and gobos, as well as a punchy 60 W RGBW LED serving as a centre pixel with a 3° beam angle the Pyxis pack a striking visual look.

The ChamSys MQ70 was the ideal choice to control the lighting rig. The console features a 10.1” multi-touch display with an illuminated encoder and fader tracks. It supports 24 universes with an option to expand to 48 using the Art-Net protocol. The console also includes built-in WIFI for quick connection to the ChamSys MagicQ Remote focus application without the need for external networking hardware.

The DJ booth monitors were set up with 4 of Martin Audio TORUS T1215S. These 12” Passive, 15-degree Fixed Angle Constant Curvature Array Loudspeakers have a single 12” (300mm) LF driver with three 1.4” (35mm)/1” (25mm) exit HF drivers, delivering a maximum SPL of 128dB continuous, with a 134 dB peak. They were reinforced with two of the Martin Audio SX218 Subs, which are dual 18″ Passive Direct Radiating Subwoofers. These touring grade subs feature 4” (100mm) voice coils on the dual drivers. The waterproof cones offer a Maximum SPL of 144dB. This entire monitor configuration was run on two of Martin Audio iK42s power amplifiers.

To handle the mixing, the Allen & Heath SQ5 was picked. The SQ5 features 16 (+1) faders with 6 layers, a high-res 7” touchscreen, 48 input channels, 12-line outputs, and 8 assignable Softkeys. The SQ5 is powered by Allen & Heath’s XCVI 96kHz FPGA engine which delivers insanely low latency of 0.7ms. Paired up with the DX1608 stagebox.

Special thanks to the Plug & Play Events Solution team for keeping us up to date and raising the level of event production in the Namibian space with incredible experiences.