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Alobar’s installs Obsidian and Elation systems at Villa Duchesne school in St. Louis

Alobar’s Lighting and Sound has installed a lighting and lighting control solution at the Villa Duchesne school in St. Louis, Missouri. The new system, which features an NX1 lighting console from Obsidian Control Systems along with Netron signal distribution, includes an array of Elation KL series and Seven Batten lights, providing the school’s Pavich Theatre with control and creativity in their lighting design.

Alobar’s Lighting and Sound, based in St. Louis, has been a long-standing partner of Villa Duchesne, having provided audio and lighting services for the school for over twenty years, including support for graduation ceremonies, Maypole celebrations, and various school events. When the school sought to revamp its theatre lighting system, they entrusted Alobar’s with the task. Ted Kretschmar of Alobar’s designed and installed the new system. The rigging aspect of the project was overseen by Scott Johnson from Alobar’s.

Kretschmar has been using Obsidian’s Onyx lighting control platform ever since the company took over the M-Series in 2018 and has particular praise for the Obsidian online training videos moderated by David Henry. “I can send the videos to end users so they have another source of support, which means the training doesn’t fall 100 percent on my shoulders”, he says.

The choice of the Obsidian NX1 lighting console for the Pavich Theatre was instrumental in achieving the project’s objectives. “It’s got the computer built in and doesn’t take up a lot of desk space”, says Kretschmar. He runs the data through a Netron EN12 etherDMX node which requires only one Cat cable off the back of the NX1. Each of four batten pipes plus four floor pockets on the stage run back to the EN12 with a DMX wall station getting an input and an output from the EN12.

Prior to the transformation, the theatre relied on conventional Par lighting, color bricks, and Lekos. The new Elation lighting system includes full color-spectrum KL Fresnel 8 FC, KL Profile FC, and KL Par FC lights, as well as Seven Batten 72 fixtures. The KL Fresnel 8 FC fixtures serve as downlights and due to the accommodating low ceiling, they can be repositioned to function as key lights when needed. Additionally, two ladders were placed on either side of the stage to enable flexible side lighting arrangements or to bring the lights downstage to face out to the crowd. These ladders currently host KL Pars. For key lighting, KL Profiles are employed.

Kretschmar and the Alobar’s team turned the new system over to the school just prior to their theatre department’s first show, a production of “Daisy Pulls it Off”, which ran in the Pavich Theatre October 19-21, 2023. Kretschmar had programmed a number of lighting scenes into the NX1 prior to delivery. Students operated the show themselves and going forward will handle all lighting tasks on the new system.

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