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MA Lighting Release grandMA2 Software Version 2.4.1[6.6]

Written By: Justin Lang on September 29, 2011

MA Lighting has announced the release of version 2.4.1 [6.6], just a few short weeks after announcing the release of 2.4.0 at PLASA. Looking over the change log, it looks like a bunch of bugs were fixed. No new software functions were added to this release. There is an important notice for grandMA2 consoles out, [...]

ACT Lighting to Host NJ Open House June 14 – 16

Written By: Justin Lang on June 9, 2011

The gents at ACT Lighting sent me a invite to their Clay Paky open house that they are having at their New Jersey office next week. While I would love to go, I will be knee deep in InfoComm in Orlando. If you are in the New York City metro area, put the ACT Lighting [...]

Light Painting With Clay Paky at ACT Lighting

Written By: Justin Lang on March 22, 2011

I was recently invited to the ACT Lighting office in New Jersey to take a look at the Clay Paky line up of Fixtures. ACT Lighting recently became a distributor of Clay Paky in the United States and wanted to show off the line up of fixtures. The gents at ACT Lighting setup one of [...]

Rumor Mill: ACT Lighting To Distribute Clay Paky in the States

Written By: Justin Lang on September 20, 2010

Last week during the PLASA show in London England, it was over heard that ACT Lighting might be distributing Clay Paky here in the United States. There were mentions of this all over Facebook and Twitter about this bit of interesting news. I am still considering this a rumor as nothing has been confirmed by [...]

MDG Fog Announces theONE Digital Fogger/Hazzer

Written By: Justin Lang on August 4, 2010

What is more exiting then lighting, witnessing awesome lighting aerials due to fog and haze! MDG Fog has just announced the release of their latest fogger/hazer, theONE. theOne is a fully digital atmospheric generator. From the same machine, you can produce and control either fog or haze. theOne is built inside an aluminum rolling rack [...]

Tuesday Twitter Trivia – grandMA’s Nice Side

Written By: Justin Lang on January 5, 2010

This weeks Tuesday Twitter Trivia question comes from my interview with Brian Dowd and Joe Cabera from ACT Lighting about the grandMA2. We talked about some of the differences between the grandMA and the grandMA2. Some pretty impressive stuff if you ask me. If you have downloaded and listened to the third episode of the [...]

iSquint Podcast: Episode 3 – Squintin’ at the grandMA2

Written By: Justin Lang on December 31, 2009

In this, the third episode of the iSquint Podcast, I got a chance to sit down with Brian Dowd and Joe Cabera from ACT Lighting to talk about the grandMA2 lighting desk. Joe and Brian were kind enough to take time out of their very busy trade show duties to sit down and explain to [...]

ConsoleCocktails Releases Cocktail #3 – Squintin’ at the grandMA2

Written By: Justin Lang on December 17, 2009

During LDI 2009, I got a chance to visit one of the busiest rooms during the week long conference and show at the Orlando Convention Center, The grandMA2 Demo and Training room. I sat down and did an interview with Joe Joe Cabrera ][ and Brian Dowd from ACT Lighting for a future episode of [...]

Update: GrandMa 2 Lighting Console Almost Ready

Written By: Justin Lang on March 14, 2009

We recently wrote a post about information on the GrandMa 2 has been lacking. Turns out the the new console is up and running. That being said, the new series 2 software is not. While the new GrandMa 2 hardware has started to ship to select customers, the console is still running the series 1 [...]