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All Pro chooses Ayrton Huracán LT fixtures and MDG ATMe hazers for college auditorium upgrade

Pensacola-based All Pro Integrated Systems, an audio, video and lighting systems integrator serving the needs of organisational, commercial, educational and governmental clients nationwide, selected twelve Ayrton Huracán LT long-throw LED moving head profiles and two MDG ATMe hazers for a recent technology upgrade in the Dale Horton Auditorium at Pensacola Christian College.

The auditorium, home of the college’s fine arts events, recitals and other programs, is a 3,500-seat space that mostly had technology original to its building in 1986. “They were overdue for a change and wanted to transform the auditorium to better serve its multiple uses”, says Justin Schwartz, Design Engineer at All Pro.

One goal was to replace all the conventional lighting with LEDs. “The catwalks are on two levels with the farthest at a pretty steep angle to the stage; they struggled to get good light downstage and on the thrust”, explains Schwartz. “Performers were actually trained to keep their heads tilted up to catch the light. The auditorium couldn’t change the catwalks, but they could put moving heads on automated truss.”

All Pro began by getting a generic model of the auditorium and spending sixty hours rendering the room to show new lighting placement. “They liked the idea of hanging truss out in the house and having fixtures at the proper angles for key lighting”, recalls Schwartz. “We worked with staff and administration on approvals and did more detailed renderings showing every fixture in the truss in its exact location, all custom coloured to match the ceiling.”

All Pro annually sponsors a technology expo at the Pensacola Bay Center where vendors display their products. ACT Entertainment, the exclusive distributor of Ayrton and MDG products in North America, attended the January 2023 expo and, at All Pro’s suggestion, brought the Ayrton Huracán LT so the college’s tech team could see it in action. “They watched it shooting 200-300 feet across the arena and agreed to install Huracán LTs, and Ayrton was able to custom powder coat them to match the ceiling”, says Schwartz.

All Pro installed four fixtures on each of three new 30-foot Tyler GT trusses in the upper balcony. “They are used as simple washes for downstage and the thrust, and they are also integrated with a Follow-Me system so they can act as follow spots”, continues Schwartz. The lights will make their debut with the college’s spring theatre staging of “The Sound of Music” in May 2024.

The college tech team also saw MDG’s ATMe hazer at the same All Pro expo where they were shown the Huracán LTs. “I have a history with MDG and knew their quality, so we installed two ATMe hazers, one running at stage left and the other at stage right”, says Schwartz. “Now, they’re able to fully haze the auditorium in ten minutes or less and have the haze hang in the room for a long time. There’s no smoke cloud but a very even haze.”

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