Mad Cool Festival Madrid had the AV and lighting production of PRG Spain

As responsible for this project, This specialist used Elation's Cuepix Panel systems to illuminate the stage located on the central tennis court of the Caja Mágica.

The first edition of the music festival Mad Cool, which was held in the middle of last June at the Madrid venue of the Caja Mágica, Not only did it have a varied lineup of great artists and international groups, como Neil Young, The Who o The Prodigy, but the expectations of attendees who attended each of the three days of concerts were exceeded, more than 30.000 personas, with a total count of 100.000 personas.

PRG Spain (group formed by Production Resource Group – XL Video) He was the specialist in charge of audiovisual production, the supply and assembly of all lighting equipment, video and sound for the three main stages of this festival, two of them outdoors.

As head of lighting production and design at PRG Spain, Francisco 'Pako' Palazón used in the third scenario, located on the central tennis court of the Caja Mágica, with an audience capacity close to 10.000 spectators and where the Madrid Open tennis tournament is held every year, Cuepix Panel units Elation Professional.

“Mad Cool has been a great production for us this summer,” explains Palazón., con 98 people working on this event for PRG, one day of assembly of structures and another of assembly of audiovisual equipment before the three days of concerts. We have used sixty units of Cuepix Panel constantly, as well as eleven as blinders on stage three”.

The eleven Cuepix Panel units have been individually positioned on the front truss of stage three, which have been used mainly as blinders, but also to project sequences/chases with solid colors that accompanied the lighting schedules of each song.

The Cuepix Panel RGB Led matrix has twenty-five COB type Led modules (chip-on-board), RGB de 30 watts of power each (for a total of 750 watts) and individual control over each pixel, especially suitable for installations with numerous units and pixel-mapping programming.

This device incorporates RJ45-Ethercon I/O connectors, as well as DMX XLR 3 y 5 pin) and supports Art-Net and KlingNet control signals without the need for conversion via ArtNet nodes.