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CHAUVET® visits SLS

Posted on February 13, 2012 by webmaster

Sound & Lighting Solutions (SLS) moved to a new Fort Lauderdale location with more space and a showroom dedicated to CHAUVET® fixtures. The highly anticipated open house, which turned out to be a mobile DJ and club installers dream, gave attendees the chance to get hands-on with the latest CHAUVET® lighting gear and atmospheric products. During the […]

Spotted Around Town: COLORpalette

Posted on February 7, 2012 by webmaster

On stage studding its backdrop and adding side light are a dozen COLORpalette LED bank wash light systems. The band? Here Come the Mummies, a 13-piece funk band. You should check out both when you can.  

Team CHAUVET®

Posted on January 27, 2012 by webmaster

We thought it would be fun to give you an inside look of the building and show you photos of our CHAUVET® team hard at work. We took a stroll through service, quality control, shipping, marketing sales, product development and our enormous warehouse. We encountered graphic artists designing product boxes, quality control technicians carefully inspecting […]

Parlez-vous CHAUVET®?

Posted on January 24, 2012 by webmaster

Our distributor from France, Algam, visited CHAUVET® HQ after The NAMM Show 2012. While they were here, we had a little fun while shooting a video short starring Algam President, Gerard Garnier. Our top question: “Parlez-vous CHAUVET®?” (translated to ‘Do you speak CHAUVET®?’) While we await its completion, here are a few behind the scenes […]

DJ Profile: DJ Dysquo

Posted on January 23, 2012 by webmaster

Meet DJ Dysquo, a club DJ active in the Miami scene. 1. How and when did you get started as a DJ? What types of events do you do? I have always been interested in music and DJing. I used to break dance for about 10 years, I did music production for about six, then […]

4 Tips to Avoid Fixture Malfunction

Posted on January 20, 2012 by webmaster

by Max Morgan, CHAUVET ®Technical Manager Technical equipment can malfunction. There, I said it, but unfortunately it’s just the way it goes. What’s even more unfortunate? When the malfunction happens at the most inopportune time, like when you’re in the middle of a gig and you can’t do much about it.  Read on to recognize […]

CHAUVET® DJ at NAMM 2012

Posted on January 20, 2012 by webmaster

Today is the first day of The NAMM Show and CHAUVET® DJ announced the release of nearly 20 new products. Through January 22, contagious products will INfect attendees including the new PiX series of pixel mapping fixtures, as well as new additions to the Intimidator family of scanners and moving heads and the Scorpion family of […]

CHAUVET® is Pretty in Pink

Posted on January 18, 2012 by webmaster

Arc Thames of Santa Rosa Sound and Lighting Production sent us this photo from a wedding at FIrst Pentecostal Church in Pensacola, Fla. The setup included eight COLORdash Batten wash lights and two 4BAR Tri effect lights. He also used a Gobo Zoom LED to project the gobo featuring the newlywed’s names.

Scorpion Storm FX Lights 4NZX

Posted on January 18, 2012 by webmaster

Don Audio shared this photo that was taken at Painter’s Restaurant in New York. The Forensics (4NZX), an electronica band, gave a special performance as laser beams from a Scorpion Storm FX filled the venue.

CHAUVET® Goes to Off the Hookah

Posted on January 16, 2012 by webmaster

  Team CHAUVET® ventured to Bayside Marketplace in downtown Miami to shoot video for our “On the Road”  series. Our destination — the swanky and sexy Mediterranean-style restaurant and lounge, Off the Hookah. Upon arrival, we met Lighting Director Walter Aleman who installed and programmed more than 190 CHAUVET® fixtures throughout the venue to create […]

Service Confidential: manuals and online sources

Posted on January 11, 2012 by webmaster

By John Dominguez, assistant service manager for CHAUVET® DJ I thought to begin this new series with one of the most fundamental tips when working with a fixture: the user manual. It really is one of the best ways to understand how your light operates. Second to that, online sources like blogs and forums can […]

New series: Service Confidential

Posted on January 11, 2012 by webmaster

by John Dominguez, assistant service manager for CHAUVET® DJ If you could be a fly on the wall anywhere in CHAUVET® DJ, we bet the Customer Service Department would top the list. All that knowledge and troubleshooting tips corralled in one place, it must be a goldmine! We thought as much and have created this […]

CHAUVET® DJ $4K Social Sweepstakes

Posted on January 11, 2012 by webmaster

Last summer we gave you 3,000 reasons to like us — now we’re giving you 4,000 more! CHAUVET® DJ is giving away $4K in gear just for “liking” us on Facebook. The grand prize winner will receive $2,000 in CHAUVET® DJ gear PLUS and iPad loaded with ShowXpress. You can even win an iPAD loaded […]

6 Questions for Enrique Salazar

Posted on January 3, 2012 by webmaster

Congratulations to our January/February Facebook Fan of the Month, Enrique Salazar. Salazar, aka DJ Kozz, is originally from Cuernavaca Morelos, Mexico. His uncles introduced him to the DJ scene at a very early age and he began DJing in 1986. Salazar owns Kozz Deim Enterprises, a consulting technology firm for the entertainment industry, and is […]

DJ Profile: DJ Borracho

Posted on December 21, 2011 by webmaster

Charles Gardella, aka DJ Borracho, is a versatile DJ in Montebello, Calif. who DJs everything in English and Spanish. He owns his own DJ business, has 17 years of experience and knows how to get party goers on their feet and keep them moving to the music. 1. How and when did you get started […]

3 Easy steps to DMX control

Posted on December 13, 2011 by webmaster

by Allan Reiss, CHAUVET® DJ product manager If you are unfamiliar with the DMX protocol, controlling fixtures with it can seem intimidating and complicated.  Before you can start programming DMX-capable fixtures, you need to understand what DMX is, how it works and what you can do with it. Once you understand the basics, you will […]

Spotted Around Town: CHAUVET® in the U.K.

Posted on December 9, 2011 by webmaster

This shot was taken during DJ Open Night at AmpDJ in the U.K. In this photo are Circus and Radius effect lights, COLORdash Batten Tri linear wash light, 6SPOT and 4PLAY pack-n-go mobile wash light systems.

Dealer Trip: Minnesota

Posted on December 9, 2011 by webmaster

Central Territory/Key Accounts Manager Jeremy Pace was in Minneapolis at EMI Audio for a CHAUVET® Demo Day to showcase these awesome effect lights: Fallout, Swarm, Circus, Orb, Sweeper LED,  plus the new gobo projector, Gobo Zoom LED 2.0. For more on our awesome lights, stay INformed and check out these two LED drapes that are perfect […]

Dealer trip: Dominican Republic

Posted on December 7, 2011 by webmaster

Written by Paula Ortiz, business development manager, Latin America for CHAUVET® I trained 35 wholesale and retail sales people on how to use CHAUVET® products, in the newly expanded lighting showroom of the TM Music store in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The retail store offers audio, lighting equipment and musical instruments, and exclusively sells CHAUVET® lights. […]

DJ Profile: DJ Jaz

Posted on December 1, 2011 by webmaster

Based in Atlanta, Ga., Jasmeet  Singh aka DJ Jaz has been DJing and entertaining crowds for the past 15 plus years. Quickly realizing his love and passion for music and entertaining, DJ Jaz has grown his services into a complete entertainment company (named GTB Productions) providing a variety of services specifically catered to every event. […]