"We were looking to upgrade our existing control system with more functions and channels," said the theatre’s lighting director Søren Nylin, "and we were very satisfied with the WYSIWYG software, which has grown to become the industry standard." Nylin detailed his technical requirements, to ETC’s distributor Bico Professionel A/S, who came up with the perfect solution. "As the theatre’s staff were already using Expression and WYSIWYG, Emphasis was the next logical step, providing a seamless fusion between the two," said Søren Jørgensen of Bico. Emphasis was supplied with additional WYSIWYG Design, two WYSIWYG Perform 2000 and ETC’s dimmer reporting software WYSILink. Bico also supplied the theatre’s New Stage with more than 500 channels of Sensor dimming with RCDs, four ETCNet2 DMX and Video Nodes, a Remote Focus Unit and four relay racks, to control worklight relays. The theatre already had more than 130 Source Fours, 12 of which are mounted on Auto-Yokes. The theatre’s houselighting is controlled by two ETC Unison architectural processors with 19 control stations, including two LCD stations.
(Ruth Rossington)
