Sven Naumann of Auckland’s Bright Spark Productions Limited had an on-going job that required a console that anyone in the industry could pick up and program. “We were originally running with a New Zealand made product that was not user-friendly for those that didn’t know it and not many people in our industry did!” he…
H3 is a unit within New Zealand’s Hamilton City Council which manages three major venues; Claudelands Event Centre, FMG Stadium Waikato and Seddon Park. Within H3 is a Technical Services department which takes care of all production requirements for events in all of those venues. Recently, it was decided that the addition of Martin Professional…
New Zealand’s Vibrant Lighting have been looking to replace their Hog 3 console with something newer and because the business has grown over the last few years, they were looking for a more capable console. “Initially, we looked at the Hog 4 range,” remarked Sarah Edwards, Designer/Project Manager at Vibrant Lighting NZ. “I have used…
New Zealand’s Metro Productions have added four Martin Professional MAC Viper Performances to their rental stock. The MAC Viper Performance is a full-feature framing fixture complete with an iris and animation wheel along with rotating gobos. “We wanted a moving light profile that had a shutter and the MAC Viper Performance filled that brief nicely,”…
New Zealand’s Vibrant Lighting, based in the South Canterbury area, have been providing lighting and entertainment solutions to the area since 2000. They are often asked to quote LED PARs for schools, and had already noticed that there was a significant price gap between Chinese brand LED, and decent quality fixtures, especially if you are…
Our first New Zealand MA Lighting International grandMA training event was held at our Auckland office this week. Branch manager Karla Kimi declared the event an all-round success, “We had a fantastic MA training for the last few days resulting in very happy customers!” Karla has been receiving some very positive feedback….. “It was great,…
Tuesday August 30th 2016 was a significant date in the twenty-two year history of Show Technology, Australia’s leading solution provider for entertainment and architectural lighting applications. The date was the official opening of the Show Technology New Zealand office in Auckland with managing director Emmanuel Ziino welcomed officially onto the land in a Pōwhiri –…
“Vipers are awesome!” declared Michael Farrand of MJF Lighting in New Zealand when asked about his recent purchase of 24 x Martin MAC Viper Wash DX. “We also purchased another dozen MAC Viper Profiles and six MAC Viper Performances so we now have nearly ninety MAC Vipers in our warehouse.” The MAC Viper family…