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Pitbull on tour with Robe BMFLs

Rapper Pitbull’s “Bad Man” tour in the U.S. featured a production design by Gabriel Fraboni and Michael Smalley of Twin Design, complete with 46 x Robe BMFL Spots on the rig which were the main profile fixtures. Twin Design has worked with the artist for two years, although this was the first full production design they had essentially created specifically for Pitbull, as the previous tour had been a co-headliner with Enrique Iglesias.

Their brief included creating all the playback video content as well as designing the lighting and video systems and the set. Having control over all these visual elements enabled them to create the show which Michael Smalley operated and directed on the road.

The BMFL Spots were located on a series of V-shaped trusses flown over the stage, with eight in a line upstage on the deck. The V trusses were designed to bring a multi-layered diamond shaped architecture to the performance space, and they also provided a solution to combine the lighting and video hardware together. Video is a key aspect of Pitbull’s live shows, so any lighting used had to be effective against the three large sections of Winvision LED surface upstage.

The BMFLS were supplied by the tour’s lighting and video vendor, VER. Lighting crew chief Joe Gonzales was joined by Shawn Gallen who looked after FOH and technicians Sam Raphael, Dan Rodriguez, with Mikey Brancato on dimmers.

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