This week, DJ Jer spends a little Shop Time advising us that when in doubt..use these colors for your uplighting!

(via LiveDesign magazine) BETHLEHEM, SOUTH AFRICA – Everyone has special childhood experiences that they treasure for the rest of their lives. For the young students in the Truida Kestell’s Primary School gospel choir, such an event took place recently when they performed before family, friends and community at the annual Truida Kestell Choir Festival. Adding […]

LEDs can last between 50,000 to 100,000 hours of operation. Some say that when an LED fixture doesn’t last that long, it’s often because some other parts in the fixture, such as the power supply, might fail before the LEDs can reach their lifespan. This is not necessarily true. As LEDs have grown brighter and […]

Our friends at SCE Event Group put together this great video recap of the Mobile Beat 2015 experience. This footage was captured & edited by Jeff Scott Gould of the SCE Event Group. Footage includes highlight footage of this incredible industry event at the Riviera, and the Havana Room at the Tropicana in Las Vegas, […]

LAS VEGAS – (For Immediate Release) – As the taller half of the superstar Las Vegas magic team of Penn & Teller, Penn Jillette is a master of illusion, but there was nothing chimerical about the magical lighting effects from CHAUVET DJ that illuminated his performance at the Mobile Beat Show. Rather than “catching bullets,” […]

CHAUVET DJ lights were recently installed in a small local church in Norway, supplied by distributor Norsk Musikk Distribusjon AS. Four Intimidator Beam LED 350 and 10 SlimPAR Tri 7 IRC, seven pieces mounted on truss and three placed on the floor, filled the room and added color to the stage. The customer was so happy with the upgrade […]

Renttasound Light Sound & Video, CHAUVET DJ distributor in St. Maarten, recently used an array of CHAUVET DJ lights for the launch of sister company Blu Staging. Held at the Belair Center event hall on the island, the event was lit by eight Motion Orb LED drapes, three EZpin IRC spot fixtures, 20 SlimPAR Quad 12 IRC, two […]

The Gig Lab goes to Anaheim, California for the NAMM 2015 to talk to industry experts John Young of Disc Jockey News, Ryan Burger of Mobile Beat Magazine, DJ Mikey Mike and CHAUVET DJ Senior Product Development Manager Allan Reiss about what trade shows like NAMM can mean to your DJ business.

About 50 CHAUVET DJ IP-rated fixtures light the oldest bridge built in 1908 in Lithuania’s capital Vilnius. The bridge illumination is part of the annual festival called Vilnius Lighting! Muzikos Ekspresas Ltd. install company specified 12 COLORband PiX IP for pylons, 10 SlimPANEL Tri 12 IP to light an art piece under the bridge and 24 SlimPANEL Tri 24 IP […]

Baton Rouge, LA – Sometimes even the most diehard sports fans want to do more than just root for the home team. The owners of the Station Sports Bar and Grill in Baton Rouge realized this, which is why they divided their well-known establishment into two separate sections, one a traditional sports pub with pool […]

CHAUVET DJ lit a one-of-a-kind performance of the Navy International Fleet Review at the Opera House in Sydney, which featured a massive stage, standing out on the beautiful skyline of the city. Jarrad Gilson of Oaklands Productions used four Intimidator Spot LED 350 and four Intimidator Spot LED 450 moving head lights, and one Geyser RGB effect fogger for the rock sets, programmed with ShowXpress. Here […]

It’s been quite a year for CHAUVET. In November, CHAUVET Professional’s popular blinder/wash the Nexus 4×4 won the prestigious Parnelli Award for Indispensable Technology in the lighting category. Now CHAUVET DJ has joined the fun by earning the 2013 MMR Dealer’s Choice Award as Lighting Line of the Year. For Albert Chauvet, president of CHAUVET […]

Part 3 of Digital DJ Tips’ Series on Lighting for DJs! So here in Part 3, we’ll conclude by looking at where we go from scenes. Because while scenes are an impressive feature, changing scenes manually all the time would be quite a hassle, which is why we have “chases” (sometimes called “shows”). We’ll talk […]

Six Intimidator Spot LED 350 moving heads take the stage during the Melbourne International Comedy Roadshow in Marysville. AVE Audio Visual Engineering specified the feature-packed movers to add movement, as well as colorful beams and effects during each live performance.

Spike TV’s hit series “Bar Rescue” features bar and nightlife expert Jon Taffer and his team of experts who revamp struggling bars nationwide. In the episode airing on July 14, the team ventured to Raleigh, N.C. and used 54 CHAUVET DJ fixtures to assist in the transformation of Cashmere Nightclub into Dual Lounge and Nightclub. To […]

Wes Sullivan, lighting designer and owner of WsLighting, made a switch and added four COLORband PiX Mini pixel mapping wash lights to a performance of Momentum by MarioCo. Dance held at the Herberger Theater Center in Phoenix. The fixtures were mounted to the stage right booms and provided mid side light to the performance. “I will always spec […]

ROCKPONY is a two-member group who produces electro/house music and performs in venues throughout Austin, Texas. To enhance their live performances, they use six LED Shadow blacklights, four COLORpalette LED bank systems, two Impulse 648 strobe lights, two COLORband PiX pixel-mapping wash lights, a Hurricane haze machine and an Obey 40 DMX controller to operate everything. Listen to their music […]

Jason Cohen, aka DJ Demand, is a club and mobile DJ for The Entertainment Company (TEC) in Riverdale, N.J., which specializes in Bar Mitzvahs, Sweet 16 parties, weddings, corporate events, and school events throughout the east coast. Until recently, Cohen and the team of DJs at TEC used a black DJ booth, non-illuminating stages and […]

by Nick Airriess, CHAUVET DJ Product Specialist Strobe lights are powerful fixtures that can enhance any event by adding high-energy effects. They produce bright, quickly pulsating flashes of light and are typically seen in nightclubs and theaters. Click here for three reasons to incorporate a strobe light into your mobile setup. DJ University is an […]

Our own Business Development Manager for Latin America Paula Ortiz traveled to Mexico, in the towns of Merida, Cancun and Playa del Carmen to train general managers, sales managers and salespersons of the Electronica Gonzalez retail stores, a customer of Novelties, our distributor from Mexico. Paula presented new products from the CHAUVET DJ and TRUSST […]