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within the venue, often making it appear large and more spacious than it actually is. To highlight the sumptuous interiors and create the ultimate dance club environment Matthew Kline of Australia Venue Services Pty Ltd asked Mark McInnes of Show Technology to help out with the lighting design process. Together they specified 32 Martin Professional MAC 250 Entour moving heads, a model that is equipped with an abundance of features including two gobo wheels, a colour wheel, as well as shutter, prism and focus components. Matthew said: “With the low roof in the venue, we really couldn’t use anything other than the MAC 250’s but we wanted lots of them to give us a big look.” The fixtures house a specially designed dimming system that ensures smooth and even dimming. While the light output and image quality produce powerful effects, which are ideally suited to the dancefloor environment at Marquee The Star. A total of 14 Martin Professional MAC 101 LED washes were also selected. The compact and lightweight LED fixtures produce a bright beam and are very fast movers, allowing for intricate lighting designs. Matthew continued: “To support the MAC 250’s we needed some nice wash effects which were going to be fast and yet be current technology so the Martin 101’s were an inexpensive solution, we’ve used a good number of these as well. They provide a narrow beam effect, a wash light and a LED pixelated effect all from one little mover.” Matthew explained his reasons behind choosing high-end lighting specialist Martin Professional: “I’ve used Martin branded products for a very long time in all types of applications across the country. I find Martin products hold up well in a nightclub situation. A nightclub can be a very tough place for a moving light to live and whilst there are certainly cheaper products on the market, Martin pays you back in reliability and serviceability over the duration of the operation. “I’ve installed Martin moving heads into many venues which are still running 10 years later, you just don’t see that with many other brands. Also the support we get from our local Martin distributor, Show Technology, really makes ownership of Martin a very easy decision for us, they’re great.” To add an extra dimension to the dancefloor, Adam Ward, Marquee The Star’s AV Director looked for some complementary fixtures that would enhance the mega club design. Adam turned to German manufacturer GLP and one of its classic products, the Volkslicht Zoom. The Volkslicht Zoom is a high powered LED washlight with a 10º-26º zoom range. Although, using 60 luxeon rebel RGB LEDs per fitting the fixture is still small and fast but with a high output. This means the Volkslichts can be used as either a beam effect to complement the Martin Professional MAC 101 LED fixtures or as a more traditional, wash style of light. For control, Matthew and Mark returned to Martin Professional, using a combination of a M1 console and a M-PC add-on. The M1 lighting controller is relatively small in size, yet this does not affect its feature list and capabilities. Fast and direct parameter access is
straightforward thanks to the digital LCD buttons, while on-the-fly timing adjustments can be easily implemented by the light jockey. The M1 is also equipped with submaster, groupmaster and override functionality and has 1,000 cuelists with fader control. The M-PC is a handy tool for offline programming, meaning light shows can be designed in advance and saved for future use. Matthew said: “For control we’ve stayed with Martin branded products. The Main Room has a Martin M1 console, this is great console, easy to use and quite affordable for what it can do. Whilst it’s reasonably new to the market we weren’t worried about that, there are already quite a few out there in use. In the Boom Box we were originally going to go with a Martin LightJockey system but once we got into the install we changed to the newer Martin M-PC system. It sits more in line with the operating system on the console in the Main Room so the switch between the two rooms is less of an issue for the operators. “There are also a number of LED rings mounted in the roof, which circulate outwards from the main bar and from the DJ box and dancefloor area. These converge and cross over. Each ring is
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