R5 Band offers spectacular visual effects with Elation Cuepix Panel at their concerts

The tour of the American youth band R5, that has visited different countries in Europe and other continents, has used Elation Professional lighting systems as a fundamental element for its pop-rock music concerts that have been followed by millions of fans.

Made up of five young people, The North American group R5 has millions of fans around the world who chant the lyrics of their second album at their concerts., ‘Sometime last night’, with whom they have made a world tour with the same name through the United States, European countries, Latin America and Japan during this year, and the next one will continue through Australia and New Zealand.

The concert tour of this promising pop-rock band has included lighting design with 73 Cuepix Panel RGB Led Matrix Units, next to 34 Platinum Beam 5R Extreme y 24 Rayzor Q7 de la firma Elation Professional, that represents and markets the company in the Spanish market visualsvisuals.

Toucan Productions, At Oklama City tribe, is the company responsible for the lighting and video assembly of the R5 tour, who already collaborated with the band in the presentation and tour of their first album. Brad Meyers, lighting director and programmer of this company on tour, has had the lighting design and operation control of Ryland Lynch during the concerts.

“For this tour - explains Meyers -, R5 components have decided to give priority to the visual effect achieved with the Cuepix Panel and its 'large pixels', instead of using video screens themselves. We set up two horizontal walls of Cuepix Panel on the stage: one front and one behind and elevated, behind the drummer. In total there are 73x Cuepix Panel units, which is a great amount when it comes to showing different graphics with them and which provides us with excellent visual effects”.

Cuepix Panel by Elation Professional is an RGB Led matrix that has 25 COB type RGB LEDs (chip-on-board) of 30 watts of power each (for a total of 750 watts of power per unit of Cuepix Panel) and individual control over each pixel, plus DMX connectors (in y out en 3 y 5 pin) and Ethercon (for use with Arkaos' Art-Net and Klingnet lighting protocols).

Brad Meyers uses the 73 Cuepix Panel this montage to display varied solid colors and also with eye-catching graphic textures and pixel-mapping effects. The front wall has 34 Cuepix Panel units (in 2x configuration 17), while the one behind the band has 39 units (in configuration 3×13).

This lighting design provides varied visual effects during the band's performance and gives the stage a great sense of depth.. Meyers highlights the great luminosity of Cuepix Panel, which it uses for blinding effects to a maximum of 80% of its maximum luminosity, and decreases during the rest of the concert programming. “We had to take its great luminosity into account when selecting which lighting fixtures we used on this tour., which includes 127 “moving heads”.

The structure design on this tour includes three lines of truss on the stage, plus six truss totems positioned behind the band and rear wall of Cuepix Panel. Platinum Beam 5R Extreme moving heads have been installed alternating on each of the truss totem poles. (up to a total of 34 units) y 24 light and fast moving heads Led Rayor Q7 (with seven RGBW Osram LEDs 15 watts for a total of 105 watts of power).

Thanks to the pixel-mapping possibilities of the Cuepix Panel and the moving heads that this lighting design has, are used more than 10.000 DMX control channels. The distribution of all these signals is done with five units of the Art-Net node to DMX Elation E-Node 8 Pro, which has eight 5pin DMX outputs.

The person in charge of Toucan Productions on this tour emphasizes that “at the beginning of the tour we had to contact the Elation technical service for a small technical consultation with the Cuepix Panel and we were given a solution very quickly., In addition to being very impressed with the most recent launches of this company”.