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On their Good Together Tour, the multi-genre quintet Lake Street Dive uses varied contrasts to make every show impactful and memorable. And lighting director Andrew Froehlich uses X-Laser Skywriter HPX M-10 fixtures to enhance the impact of every song and lighting look. It’s a design that they call “joyful rebellion."

A common test for any professional LD is to create an impactful show no matter the size of the venue. Whether a small club or massive stadium, effective lighting energizes the audience, expresses the band’s artistry and empowers the designer to use all the tools in their creative arsenal. Empowered by X-Laser fixtures and Mercury Laser Control firmware, designer Ben Jarrett of Squeek Lights in Sayreville, N.J., checked all of those boxes and then some with his design for metalcore band Beartooth on its 2024 North American Tour.

Now back home at our Maryland HQ after a successful LDI 2023 show in Las Vegas, we’re happy with how the show turned out and really enjoyed connecting (and reconnecting) with so many folks in the pro lighting and production world. In case you couldn't make it to the desert this year, check out this post for an in-depth recap of everything we had on display!

Coming off the Damn Strait Tour, Hornback said he understands how concertgoers want to capture the memories of seeing the talented McCreery on stage. However, he thinks audience members always get the best experience by soaking in the experience with their eyes and ears. And that experience includes the lasers.

Mercury wasn’t created for laser people. It was created to give lighting professionals an unfair advantage by letting them easily and quickly add lasers to their rigs, all while using the lighting console they know and love. Check out what else PLSN had to say and read the full article!

How Mercury Laser Control Gives Lighting Designers an Unfair Advantage   Picture this: You're a touring lighting designer who, during your travels, has seen lasers used at some of the concerts you've worked. You haven't used lasers firsthand before, as you had only seen them controlled with a separate software setup by a dedicated "laser guy". You figure that's because getting...

With professional laser control and programming easier than ever, lighting designers and live event producers can add lasers to lighting rigs and use them to them enhance any array of traditional moving-head fixtures. So if your team is set on adding the allure of laser light to your next event, tour or...

What is Mercury Laser Control? Lasers for lighting designers Launched in 2017, Mercury is our control system built from the ground up for direct control from lighting consoles. As moving lights and intelligent fixtures have developed, many people viewed lasers as either cheap effects or large, expensive, and required extensive...

Four Reasons Lighting Designers Should Use XLERATE What is XLERATE? XLERATE is our free software tool designed to be flexible and work seamlessly with your rig. Featuring previsualization support, rig management capability, content management, and more, XLERATE is the perfect tool for lighting designers who want to integrate lasers into...