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Obsidian NX4 used for Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day concert

For this year’s Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day, Canadian lighting designer Pierre Roy lit a special Facebook Live concert by Martin Deschamps, using an Elation rig directed by an Obsidian Control Systems NX4 console.

Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day is one of the most important holidays in Quebec and across French Canada, featuring parades and outdoor concerts. With a storm in the forecast however, the Martin Deschamps show was moved indoors, on very short notice, to the Rolland-Brunelle Cultural Center in Joliette, Quebec.

“I had a previous Saint-Jean Baptiste show already programmed and although I didn’t have the same lighting gear in the new venue it was easy for me to update the show and all my cues”, says Roy. “There is a feature in the NX4 called cloning and swapping that allowed me to choose the fixtures on my regular show and replace them with the new fixtures.” SF Marketing supplied the NX4 board for the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day show.

Roy explains that he rarely starts a show from scratch but works from a default show of about 50 fixtures where all the presets are already done - intensity, colors, gobos, pan and tilt, focus, etc. “When I start, I just patch all my fixtures on my new show and clone the fixtures from the default show. All my presets are then automatically done”, he says.

On the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day show he used the light plot from a previous Martin Deschamps show to control a rig of Elation SixPar 300IP and Elation Arena Par Zoom lights along with Lekos and ACLs. The show was broadcast on Facebook Live on June 23rd.

(Photos: Elation)

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