Touchdown: Super Bowl Halftime Show Plays Along with grandMA

(21/02/2014) The Super Bowl Halftime Show always glitters, and Bruno Mars's and the Red Hot Chili Peppers's stellar performance at Super Bowl XLVIII was no exception. This year a grandMA2 light took command of the media. Lighting designer Bob Barnhart opted to have a more rock n roll vibe in the rig than the stylized, choreographed shows that we've seen in the past. Bruno wanted this to be more of a live rock show.

Barnhart was challenged to capture that rock n roll sensibility as well as prepare for winter weather conditions that might envelop the open-air MetLife stadium in New Jersey. It was a question of what we could design that could survive severe weather, he says. Another factor was the limitations of rigging positions in the building and how we could symmetrically lay out the rig. We had to cover as much of the full stadium with the stage pushed back against the audience as we could.

Jason Rudolph controlled all the media with a grandMA2 light; an additional system served as a back up. I use the MA Lighting consoles for most of my shows, he reports. It performed great, as usual, which is one of the reasons it has become my console of choice.

MA Lighting International, based in Paderborn, Germany, is the dedicated sales, support and service entity for the renowned control systems, digital dimming systems, networking tools and media servers of MA Lighting Technology, based near Wuerzburg, Germany. The product range offers cutting-edge solutions for control and dimming, including the award-winning grandMA2 consoles, the MA onPC command wing and MA onPC fader wing and reliable digital dimmer racks and packs. With its innovative MA VPU (Video Processing Unit) MA bridges the lighting and video worlds.

Today, MA Lighting is respected for its technical knowledge and has achieved a unique international reputation for its operational philosophy. The company offers more than 30 years experience and strictly follows a professional user-centric approach, getting as close as possible to the market via its own international offices and support centres in the UK, North America, Latin America, the Middle East/India, Asia Pacific and Scandinavia/Eastern Europe/Russia supported by a world-wide distribution and service network.

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