Need lamps for traditional fixtures? Clearlight Shows keeps the lights on…

As major venues and production companies transition to all-LED lighting inventories, big manufacturers are ceasing to make replacement lamps for traditional fixtures, and many distributors are no longer sourcing and importing them. This could be a financial catastrophe for small venues, community organisations, houses of worship, and educational institutions across Australia, many of whom are years away from being able to upgrade to LED. Clearlight Shows have recognised this looming issue, and have stepped up to ensure that the lights will stay on across the country for years to come. “There are still thousands of venues and people in the ...

Darebin Arts Centre Swefog

Darebin Arts Centre gets Hazy with Swefog Darebin Arts Centre, Preston, is a vital piece of performing arts infrastructure in Melbourne’s creative north. Its proscenium arch fly-tower theatre, foyer, exhibition space and five multipurpose rooms provide a combined capacity of 1,500. Like most arts centres, it hosts everything from dance recitals, to touring acts, to community events. Like all of its equipment, flexibility is key. Any haze and fog solution they employ has to provide subtle mist one minute and heavy smoke the next. That’s why they’ve chosen to update their inventory with a Swefog Duramax Intellahazer 1k8. “John McKissock ...

Clearlight Shows 40th Birthday

    John Mckissock reflects on his time in the Aussie lighting scene over the last 40 years at the helm of Clearlight Shows.   The early days of Clearlight Shows in the first half of the seventies was a time of wild concerts and the like, I remember working on iconic festivals like the Odyssey Rock Festival of ’71 and Australia’s answer to Woodstock- Sunbury Music Festival. I also went on tour doing the lighting for a few of the great bands of the time like Skyhooks, AC/DC, Air Supply and Billy Thorpe. Lighting was always an interest for ...

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Pro Light + Sound Frankfurt 2018

John and Nick jetted off to Germany for a quick trip to the 2018 Pro Light + Sound trade show in Frankfurt. It was a massive show as usual, and it was great to be able to catch up face to face with our long time suppliers especially the teams at LDR, Swefog and Apollo Design. LDR has some great new offerings when it comes to Follow Spots, and we look forward to giving you the first look at them in the coming months. Swefog has released a new range the K family of hazers and foggers. The improved bag ...

What’s New in Capture 2018

  Capture 2018 Edition has several major improvements… Capture 2018 is the new edition of Capture Visualisation software, and there are major improvements for users! With the release of Capture 2018, the software is now using DirectX on Windows and Metal on macOS. The change of rendering technology from OpenGL to DirectX and Metal brings better performance and stability as well as opening possibilities for future development. Capture Sweden have also made several improvements to the export of DXF and DWG files as well as the export of patch data to the grandMA2 lighting console. Several new ladder and triangular truss ...

Entech Roadshow 2018- that’s a wrap!

    John left Melbourne in the middle of February for a whirlwind Australian tour with the Entech Roadshow 2018. Stopping off in Brisbane, Sydney, Adelaide, Melbourne and Perth- the roadshow is a great way for lighting industry professionals to network and find out about the latest and greatest products in lighting. We had an overwhelmingly positive response to the products we took on the road,  the Zero 88 FLX S console and the Swefog Duramax Intellahazer with it’s revolutionary bag-in-box fluid technology. The Zero 88 FLX-S console really packs a punch – it is able to operate totally silently, ...

FLX S Lighting Console From ZERO 88

  FLX S – A well priced, intuitive console for professional light control. The FLX S lighting desk is one of the newest consoles from Zero 88. Available with 24 or 48 multifunction faders this console can control 48 or 96 moving lights, LED and conventional dimmer circuits. Exceptional colour picking options are on offer: encoder wheels, touch screen colour picker and uploaded graphics can be used for colour matching. Colour palettes can be created and stored for later use and an integrated effect generator can be used for automatic effects like rainbow, fly-in, etc. Lee Filters has supplied colour ...

Swefog Duramax Intellahazer 1K8

                              The Duramax Intellahazer 1K8 is a revolutionary new touring system for haze. The new Bag-in-Box fluid technology means that the fluid container is 100% leak proof making this the best haze machine on the market for touring and multi-venue use.  This water based haze generator has an especially high output and three types of fog fluid:  XTR (extra light); MD (medium) and HD (high density) to create the best haze for your venue. The fluid container can be changed during a performance to create different ...

Another lighting desk on the road from Clearlight!

Today Nick was preparing some lighting desk consoles for tomorrow’s shipment. Two lighting consoles will go out tomorrow, to be installed in the client’s venue. Clearlight Shows offers a range of desks for lighting console hire as well as purchase, so you can check out the hire console fully and decide if it is the correct lighting desk for you and your venue. *Please note the NEO console is not in our hire inventory yet but is available for sale.