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Since the beginning of the 2021-2022 NHL season, the Wild have infused a special kind of energy into the gameday experience at Xcel Energy Center to help their fans inspire the team to victory. See how we helped!

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...

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...

This past weekend was metalcore band August Burns Red's annual Christmas Burns Red show, this year virtually and on-demand for a limited time.  Squeek Lights supplied the lighting and lasers, notably Elation DARTZ 360s and X-Laser Skywriter 5Ws.  Killer lighting design by David Summers!  "Our Christmas show was the first time...

Photo by Matthew Stoneback eddysound.com If you follow us on social media, you've probably seen some of the amazing photos and videos from our friends at Eddy Sound. We reached out to them to learn more about what they've been up to in the last couple of months.   Photo...

Our friends from Stonewolf Studios provided the lasers for TEMPO by EAMOTION, a live entertainment production company focused on bringing immersive experiences to the public. Founders Erik Anderson and Gordon Droitcour of EAMOTION recognized early on in the pandemic shutdown that live entertainment was not going to quickly return to how it...

Photo from Eddy Sound The newest project from Eddy Sound is the official music video for Jarrod Gipson's song "Complicated". Using Skywriters in combination with their Blizzard Lights and ChromaQ inventory, LD McKenley Hoelmer created an innovative timecoded design! You can watch the music video below. What did you think...

DJ Chris Poynter provided lighting design and sound reinforcement for Passion & Performance Arts Inc.’s annual spring dance showcase and afterparty. This was not your average setup, however. Located in a large hotel ballroom, the setup included a twenty foot truss on one end of the room with two X-Laser...