Allround Lyd & Lys (Light & Sound) based in Struer, Denmark, purchased Robe iFORTE LTX Follow Spots ahead of their busy 2024 festival season, so going forward, they could offer follow spotting facilities with their festival stage lighting packages.
Head of lighting, Martin Breinholt, and his team designed a quick-to-rig festival production lighting set-up based on Robe LEDBeam 350s and ESPRITES for over-stage lighting, with the fixtures installed in pre-rigged trussing sections. These deployed on a string of festivals around the country throughout summer.
Eight units of each fixture type were rigged to a standard run of PRT so the lighting rigs could be scaled up or down comprising one to three or more pieces of truss, depending on the size of the festival stage. The standard medium sized rig would involve a two-truss section set up with 16 ESPRITES and 16 LEDBeam 350s.
“Apart from making the operation smoother, it also makes the process more streamlined for visiting LDs and their bands,” explained Breinholt. “They know this as our standard festival format and therefore what to expect onstage, and they can program and tweak their showfiles accordingly.”
Most bands appearing throughout the summer season also toured with their own specials / floor packages to augment the overhead system. Breinholt commented that both ESPRITES and LEDBeam 350s were “bright and versatile” as well as a good physical size. He further observed that these luminaires work “very nicely” together.
The basic requirement for any festival stage is to have a selection of good, reliable spots and washes “and both these Robe fixtures are perfect for the job,” he confirmed, adding that they integrated seamlessly with most of the visiting floor packages.
Breinholt noted that the ESPRITES’ AirLOC (Less Optical Cleaning) technology means that the fixtures can be run for a whole festival season in the toughest conditions.
Purchasing the LTXs has not only completed the optimal festival package offered by Allround Lyd & Lys, but it has also taken the quality of follow spotting on offer to a new level.
Allround Lyd & Lys has also had its own bespoke designed FOH follow spot towers engineered in Denmark. Breinholt added that these can be built by one of their crew plus one stage hand quickly and efficiently, while the rest of the crew can be tackling other tasks.
Allround purchased its first ESPRITES in 2021 together with the initial LEDBeam 350s, and then added more of both fixtures. Last year, the company invested in another Robe Profile, the PAINTE, which is even more compact in size and ideal for the average B / other / alternative stages or tents at a festival, plus numerous other applications.
Last summer, 12 of their 24 PAINTES were on duty on the festival circuit, while the other 12 were out on various tours.