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Elation Lighting for multi-use Dakota Restaurant and Bar

Elation Lighting for multi-use Dakota Restaurant and Bar
Elation Lighting for multi-use Dakota Restaurant and Bar

Over the past 12 months, Elation dealer Fyxx Entertainment has outfitted several entertainment venues in Scottsdale, Arizona, with Elation lighting and video systems - live music venue Livewire and The District bar and nightclub for example - a list that also includes Dakota, a full service restaurant and bar located in the heart of Scottsdale’s Entertainment District. Fyxx’s Adrian de Pamphilis and Gabriel de Pamphilis co-designed the lighting scheme with lighting designer Jason Jones.

 

Used to center light the tables when in dining mode are Platinum Profile LEDs, moving headfixtures that can dress the tables in a choice of colors including white. Once the tables are cleared, the fixtures shift into nightclub lighting mode, using its movement, colors, graphics and effects possibilities to change the atmosphere from dining decorative to dance floor dynamic.

 

Then the rest of the lighting rig comes to life. Mounted in a grid above the dance floor are EPV 762 moving head LED panels. Used for high-res video, graphics and text messages, they sweep effects around the room with a pan/tilt motion that allows them to be seen from all sides and every angle. Video processing is from an Elation EVP VSC video controller and content for the panels is delivered using an Arkaos Media Master Express.

 

While DJs provide the dance beat from atop a raised custom-designed DJ booth, mounted within it on each side are Elation Sniper 2Rs, one of the first Sniper installs in the U.S. Meanwhile, washing the dance floor in color are Platinum Wash ZFX LED moving heads. For a design detail in the bar area, Elation LED Flex Tape lines the glass shelves of the bar, uplighting bottles in color-changing light.

 

Dakota often operates into the wee hours of the night, but unlike other entertainment venues, Dakota must be ready for the early morning coffee crowd at 6:00 am. “LED was the obvious choice here,” Adrian de Pamphilis says. “Besides the power savings that they benefit from, they didn’t want to worry about changing bulbs and the other maintenance issues you can have with a discharge system. Fewer fans to deal with, less cooling, less power, less maintenance - it just made sense.”

 

The dynamic lighting scheme at Dakota continues to an outdoor patio area visible from the street where compact IP65-rated American DJ Wifly QA5 RGBA wash fixtures and Elation 4-head LED Event Bars are used to uplight olive trees, as well as the building’s outdoor façade on two sides. “Outdoor lighting wasn’t a part of the initial lighting scheme which meant that we had no access to DMX outside,” Adrian de Pamphilis explains. “When it was eventually decided to add dynamic lighting at the patio areas and onto the façade we turned to the wireless DMX solution of the Wifly QA5 which has wireless DMX built-in.”

 

At another outdoor area, Dakota’s Comoncy Coffee Bar patio, rock columns are uplit using Acclaim ALQ Bar 500 and 1000 linear graze and wash fixtures. All of the outdoor lighting design at Dakota is the work of Gabriel de Pamphilis while lighting programming for the entire venue was completed by Elation’s Esteban De La Torre-Alva.

 

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