Robe LEDWashes on Vasco Rossi Tour

Robe ROBIN LEDWash 600 moving lights are appearing onstage with Italian superstar Vasco Rossi as part of a lighting and scenic video design by Giovanni Pinna for Rossi's Live Kom 011 stadium tour.

Pinna has been working with the artist -- the most popular live performer in Italy fans -- for the last 20 years. This time, his 121'-high, three-level, portrait-format architectural set structure was based around the concept of"'verticality," designed by GioForma Set design studio. It included large quantities of scenic LED panels, some of which were moved on a Cyberhoist system and a large lighting rig, of which an integral element was the 24 Robe ROBIN LEDWash 600s.

These were rigged specifically on two staircases at stage level (Level One of the three mentioned above) -- one each side of the stage -- which were ensconced between four 29.5' high side-stage lighting pods. The LEDWashes were focused on the band and washing the stage area immediately around them.

Pinna says, "I wanted a light source that was extremely bright and powerful to give a seriously punchy 'bump' effect for my accents and punctuations to the music".

The LEDWash 600s were worked hard throughout the two-and-a-half-hour Vassi show and utilized constantly for general illumination as well as the "power-bumps" that Pinna wanted.

"I love the zoom," he says referring to the unit's very versatile 15 - 60-degree range, adding that he also likes the richness and purity of the colors, the flat and even consistency of the beam, and the colour mixing - which, the company says, is completely homogenised and super-smooth.

Pinna is interested in integrating LED technology into light-shows for numerous reasons and has tried out many different types of fixtures, saying, "These LEDWash 600s are amazing -- very bright -- and quite unique. In fact, I have never had quite such an impressive LED fixture on tour before".

He controlled the LEDWashes and all the rest of the lighting -- including other moving lights, Jarags, blinders, strobes, LED PARS, and conventional PARs --- from a grandMA full size console, working closely with Marco Denardi, who ran the video media servers via another grandMA full size. They spent six intense nights of programming the show in Ancona Stadium ahead of the first gig there.

The tour's main lighting contractor was Limelite srl from Rome, with the LEDWash 600s supplied by rental and dry hire specialist, PR Electronic, also based in Rome, which has one of the largest stocks of all the latest Robe technology in the country.