LA’s LightenUp Inc. expands its Ayrton inventory with Rivale Profiles
LightenUp Inc. (LUI), a Los Angeles‐ based professional lighting company, has added 48 Ayrton Rivale Profiles to its extensive inventory of Ayrton fixtures and quickly put them to work on a cross‐country Paramount+ project. ACT Entertainment is the exclusive distributor of Ayrton lighting products in North America.
Owned and operated by skilled and experienced technicians, LUI supplies a full range of lighting equipment and power distribution to all types of events. It also offers lighting rentals.
The Rivale Profiles join a roster of Ayrton fixtures that includes Diablo, Perseo, Zonda 9 FX and Zonda 3 FX units. Rivale Profile, a unique projector that boasts performance, creativity, subtlety and power, is the most versatile fixture Ayrton has created to date.
Rivale is a 450W 6500K LED IP65‐rated moving head profile with 4‐52º zoom developed for mixed use indoors and outdoors, in all conditions. Surprisingly lightweight, it offers continuous rotation of the pan and tilt movement, a new high‐definition progressive CMY colour‐ mixing system for perfect colour reproduction as soon as the filter is inserted, framing shutters, and a large selection of gobos and effects.
“We were one of the first to get Diablos, which have been our workhorse fixture, and now we’re one of the first with Rivales in our push to find IP‐class fixtures,” notes LUI Lighting Designer, Joe O’Neill.
“We are not afraid to be the first to jump in if we believe in the product,” notes LightenUp Founder, Nathan Megaw. “We have a history with Ayrton and know first‐hand about their quality, craftsmanship and performance.”
O’Neill recalls that, “when I saw Rivale on paper it looked like a very cool, IP‐ rated light that wasn’t much bigger than Diablo. When I saw Rivale in person, after comparing a lot of IP fixtures from different companies, I knew we had to have them.” O’Neill cites Rivale’s form factor, high output, continuous pan and tilt, 270º tilt option for achieving steep angles, colour wheel for mixing, multiple layers of colour correction, gobo wheels, animation and frost as big selling points. “It has everything we need, all the features of the highest class Ayrton fixtures in a compact form factor that’s rock solid,” he says.
Megaw concurs and explains that LUI plans to “eventually switch everything over to IP‐rated fixtures that work well in all environments. That’s where our investment in new fixtures will be focused.”
The Rivales will see cross‐country action when LUI teams with 15|40 A Creative Studio for “The Lodge: A Paramount+ Experience.”
“Rivale is on track to becoming one of my all‐time favourite fixtures,” O‘Neill declares.
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