Wireless Solution Sweden AB’s award-winning W-DMX was recently part of the famed Coachella Valley Music and
Arts Festival with Visions Lighting once again supplying a superior lighting
scheme for the show. The festival featured many past and current legends of
music including Muse, Motorhead, Pharrell Williams, The Cult, Pixies, Beck, and
Fatboy Slim, just to name a few. The two-weekend festival hosted more than
500,000 attendees.
Todd Roberts was on site as the overall
Production Manager for Visions. Canin Campbell of Visions Lighting led the
onsite team for set up of the system. Canin was supported by Daniel Baca and
Steven Calley.
Roberts and his team were looking for a
replacement of the Xenon searchlights used in previous years. The solution was
the new Platinum Beam Extreme from Elation. Roberts and his team used 8
Platinum Beam Extreme fixtures on each of the festival’s 15 permanent site
lighting towers. The next question was signal distribution and Roberts didn’t
hesitate to turn to Wireless Solution W-DMX.
W-DMX
distributed signal for 4 universes using 4 BlackBox transmitters and 15
receivers. Signal was sent to each of 15 towers, with no signal dropout during
the entire event.
Visions Lighting supplied
all the W-DMX units. All
programming was done by Colin Feeney from a 40’ high scissor lift located right
in the center of the festival grounds so that the entire rig was visible.
The entire system operated 100% without failure, in spite of the extreme
weather conditions including heat, wind, and rain.
Roberts
said, “W-DMX was used for the site lighting towers and we used large antennae
to boost the signal. The system was flawless, even with a ton of wireless
traffic.”
Niclas Arvidsson, CEO of
Wireless Solution said, “We’ve had the pleasure of supporting Visions at
Coachella in the past and it’s always been a great success. On such a large
scale site, the W-DMX system bypasses many headaches for the team, which is our
biggest goal.”
Wireless Solution Sweden is the world’s leading
manufacturer of Wireless lighting control equipment, now celebrating 300,000 units
sold worldwide and over 45 OEM partners. Hailed for its reliability and ease of
use, Wireless Solution’s W-DMX range of products is the consistent choice for
top professionals in the lighting industry and specified with perfect results
in high-profile events and installations around the world. W-DMX is also hailed
as the best wireless OEM solution. W-DMX has been used in major lighting
applications including the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore, Bruce Springsteen,
Lady Gaga, Coldplay, Super Bowl XLVI and many more.
