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Manu Jacob selects GrandMA3 for Shreya Ghoshal tour

Lighting for the recent legs - including the USA and Canada - of Indian singer Shreya Ghoshal’s “All Hearts” world tour was programmed by Manu Jacob using an all GrandMA3 control system solution for this section of the tour, and the first time on a touring project.

Brought onboard as programmer by Mumbai based show producers BToS Productions, he worked closely with the lighting design team from LAGFL Designs on ensuring that the show they had crafted was programmed in a flexible way, enabling the showfile to be updated to deal with different sized venues. “It was to facilitate this and also for the networking capabilities that I decided to make the switch to all GrandMA3 for this project”, states Jacob, adding that he has been working on the GrandMA platform for the last ten years.

The 8-week North American leg of the tour kicked off with a warm-up show in Mauritius and involved approximately 160 lighting fixtures, mostly Robe moving lights according to the original spec. However, the type of luminaire varied according to the venue and lighting vendor - so there were plenty of fixture exchanges taking place over the course of the tour.

When it started in India earlier in the year, the artist was playing even larger venues, so the show was initially programmed using around 400 luminaires. In the US, several different lighting vendors were involved, depending on the venue and promoter, with Event EQ, who are part of LMG Touring & Entertainment, supplying most shows on the itinerary, co-ordinated for them by BJ Singh. The lighting plot was initially drawn up in Vectorworks and imported via MVR (My Virtual Rig) to Depence 3 and then into the GrandMA3.

Shreya Ghoshal’s show has a wide dynamic range for lighting, with lots of bold, bouncy up-tempo numbers balanced with softer ballads and slower, softer moments. Some parts of the show are run to timecode, so for these sections, Jacob used Recipes to assist the programming which he describes as “a seamless process”.

The show was run from a GrandMA3 full-size console, and for the gigs, serviced by Event EQ, a GrandMA3 light was provided for backup together with three GrandMA3 processing units. In the US, the production manager was Klaus Baker and the lighting crew chief was Priscilla Mullins.

Manu Jacob, based in the coastal city of Kochi in Kerala, India, and working internationally, has also recently become an official MA trainer, working in conjunction with Hi-Tech Audio & Image, the authorized distributor for MA Lighting in India, and as part of this frequently runs workshops and sessions hosted across the country.

(Photos: Sahil Makhani/SMFilms)

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