Bandit Lights Up Country Radio Seminar with De Lux Productions

	"The FX-B units are fun eye candy for camera as well as to use for creative background during songs," says Hoagland. "Love the flexibility that these fixtures allow the programmer and board op to have."

Country Radio Broadcasters (CRB) recently assembled for the annual Country Radio Seminar (CRS), an "educational event which gathers key business leaders in various radio and music industry fields, featuring presentations on best business practices, emerging technology, personal career development, and new music showcases." Bandit Lites provided the lighting for the three-day event, working with Scott De Vos of De Lux Productions.

"It's awesome to be part of the cog that is CRS. Lighting todays hitmakers and tomorrow's stars never gets old," says Bandit client representative Allen Deneau. "A big tip of the hat goes to the De Lux team as they are absolute professionals and more importantly, they're fun to work with. Scott and his team are passionate about getting it right and that makes my part of the job very easy."

CRS and De Lux Productions called on lighting designer Keith Hoagland to formulate a system that would both be creative while covering basic television need ("have good key light while also enough fill to not be flat") as CRS archives the event in videos.

With the design locked in, a challenge arose to find a board op/programmer to step into a heavy programming situation while maintaining a festival-type show where multiple artists take to the stage.

"Stephen 'Red' Shumate did a great job stepping in for me to operate and run CRS this year. Very thankful he was able to jump in with both feet and get it done."

"Keith's design was very versatile and easy to work with," says Shumate. "He had all the different aspects of the show covered and covered well. It was a pleasure to work with his design. He has done a great job at making sure the lighting challenges are kept to a minimum; the biggest challenge I had this year was when the presenters decided to present from different areas in the audience, just an hour before the show. The great thing is that this rig had everything it needed to make that happen quickly and effectively."

"As always, Keith's design was incredible and very powerful but still easy to work with," Deneau adds. "You can always tell so much attention gets paid to the smallest details when Keith is involved. Red did a great job taking Keith's rig and making it his and putting together a collection of great looks."

Bandit supplied more than 150 fixtures including Ayrton Khamsin S, Chauvet Rogue R2X Wash, Elation Smarty Hybrids, GLP X4S RGBW, GLP X4 Bar 20 and Chauvet Rogue R1 FX-B, which were a hit with both Hoagland and Shumate.

"The FX-B units are fun eye candy for camera as well as to use for creative background during songs," says Hoagland. "Love the flexibility that these fixtures allow the programmer and board op to have."

"This was my first time using R1 FX-B's and they were a lot of fun when using effects," says Shumate. "Used in the tower configuration, they were not only versatile in the looks they could create, but they were also great in creating small but not distracting movement. Also, I had some "old school" fun creating some ACL looks with the GLP Impression X4S and Rogue R2X Washes."