R5 Band offers spectacular visual effects with Elation Cuepix Panel in its concerts

The tour of the American boy band R5, who has toured different countries in Europe and other continents, has used Elation Professional's lighting systems as a fundamental element for its pop-rock music concerts that have been followed by millions of fans.

Formed by five young people, The American group R5 has millions of fans around the world who sing in their concerts the lyrics of their second album, 'Sometime Last Night', with which they have made a world tour with the same name in the United States, countries in Europe, Latin America and Japan this year, and that will follow the next one by Australia and New Zealand.

The concert tour of this promising pop-rock band has counted for its lighting design with 73 units of the matrix Led RGB Cuepix Panel, alongside 34 Platinum Beam 5R Extreme and 24 Rayzor Q7 of the firm Elation Professional, that represents and commercializes in the Spanish market the company visualsvisual.

Toucan Productions, of Oklahoma City, is the company responsible for the lighting and video assembly of the R5 tour, who already collaborated with the band in the presentation and tour of their first album. Brad Meyers, Director and programmer of the lighting of this company on tour, has had the lighting design and operation control of Ryland Lynch during the concerts.

"For this tour," Meyers explains, ", the components of R5 have decided to give priority to the visual effect achieved with the Cuepix Panel and its 'large pixel', instead of using actual video screens. We mounted two horizontal walls of Cuepix Panel on stage: one front and one behind and raised, behind the drummer. In total there are 73x Cuepix Panel units, which is a lot when it comes to showing different graphics with them and that provides us with excellent visual effects".

Cuepix Panel from Elation Professional is an RGB Led matrix that has 25 RGB LEDs type COB (chip-on-board) of 30 watts of power each (for a total of 750 watts of power per Cuepix Panel unit) and individual control over each pixel, plus DMX connectors (in and out in 3 and 5 pin) and Ethercon (for use with Arkaos' Art-Net and Klingnet lighting protocols).

Brad Meyers uses the 73 Cuepix Panel of this mount to show varied solid colors and also with striking graphic textures and pixel-mapping effects. The front wall has 34 Cuepix Panel units (in 2x configuration 17), while the one behind the band has 39 units (in configuration 3×13).

This lighting design provides varied visual effects during the band's performance and gives the stage a great sense of depth.. Meyers highlights the great luminosity of Cuepix Panel, used for blinding effects to a maximum of 80% of its maximum luminosity, and decreases during the rest of the concert programming. "We had to take its great luminosity into account when selecting which lighting devices we used on this tour., which includes 127 moving heads".

The design of structures on this tour includes three lines of truss on stage, plus six truss totem poles positioned behind the band and the back wall of Cuepix Panel. In each of the truss totems have been installed in alternation moving heads Platinum Beam 5R Extreme (up to a total of 34 units) and 24 light and fast moving heads Led Rayor Q7 (with seven Led RGBW Osram of 15 watts for a total of 105 watts of power).

Thanks to the pixel-mapping possibilities of the Cuepix Panel and the moving heads that this lighting design has, more than 10.000 canales DMX de control. La distribución de todas estas señales se realiza con cinco unidades del nodo Art-Net a DMX Elation E-Node 8 pro, que cuenta con ocho salidas DMX 5pin.

El responsable de Toucan Productions en esta gira subraya que “al comienzo de la misma tuvimos que contactar con el servicio técnico de Elation por una pequeña consulta técnica con los Cuepix Panel y se nos dio solución muy rápidamente, además de estar muy impresionado con los más recientes lanzamientos de esta compañía”.

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