Touring/Concerts

ChamSys MagicQ consoles are ideal for touring, which often involves adapting to changing conditions in each venue.

Touring/Concerts

Touring often involves adapting to changing conditions in each new venue. Whether it means small but important changes to the physical spacing of the rig, or using a few more lights in some venues than in others, or actually adapting the plot to what is hanging in the venue when you arrive, you have your work cut out for you. Bring the console that rises to the challenge and helps eliminate the tedious and repetitious parts of this adaptive technique.

ChamSys knows what this process is like, because MagicQ was created by people who also were working lighting designers and programmers. Their insights into how to make the daily adjustments go smoothly are based on real-world experience in your shoes. This is what makes MagicQ the ultimate touring console.

Supporting the touring Lighting Director/Operator when they tackle this kind of lighting challenge is at the core of the design philosophy that backs MagicQ, so you can bring their consoles out on the road fully supported by advanced features like Morphing, Cloning, Patch Offsetting, and of course a workflow that takes full advantage of Palettes, Groups, and FX engines.

Testimonials

“The networking on the MQ500 was critically important. I used it to grab a number of values from the festival console and grab things like position palettes to speed up the process. I am always amazed by how easy this is to do on the MQ500.”

– Davey Taylor, Empire Of The Sun

“The MQ500 is the finest console available for this application. When you need to busk something, or find a look in the programmer and seamlessly integrate it into a programmed show, there is no faster professional console than the MQ500.”

– Neil Marsh, Above & Beyond

– Davey Taylor, Empire Of The Sun

– Neil Marsh, Above & Beyond

Console features Relating to Touring/Concerts

Head Cloning

Above & Beyond’s performance overflows with hope and inspiration, qualities that are reflected in their tour’s uplifting Neil Marsh-designed lightshow. Running his 48-universe show with a ChamSys MagicQ MQ500 Stadium, Marsh creates a stunning video and light panorama that sweeps audiences up into a shared Above & Beyond experience.

Patch-Offset

Patch Offsetting is the feature you need if you have to rotate your moving heads to fit them into the space, or if someone accidentally reorients one during a changeover. It allows offsets to the positioning data that determines aiming angles for moving yokes, such as a 90 degree clockwise rotation. Put this information into the console in one location and watch your whole show be updated accordingly. It’s an almost effortless way to get the show back in shape when the plot twists.

Morphing

Morphing enables changing from one instrument type to another. MagicQ automatically transfers the programming from the old head type to the new type. This can include position, color, intensity and beam attributes, and will then updates all palettes and cues accordingly. In the worst case scenario, you’re getting a big head start, and in the best you may be done after pressing just a few buttons to tell the console how to do all that work for you. Either way it’s a win, and makes day of show adapting to the local fixtures a realistic approach.

Neil Marsh Runs Uplifting Above & Beyond Tour With ChamSys MagicQ MQ500

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