Some new Jems for Robe
JEM Audiovisual Events & Installations is a rising star company based in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands, headed by owner and founder Justin Engelman, and built on passion, energy, and enthusiasm for live events and delivering technical production to the very highest standards. “The most important part of every job is the end result,” stated Justin.
Moving into a new phase of development, they started investing in Robe moving lights with the latest purchase being 8 x ESPRITE Profiles that join the LEDBeam 150s and LEDWash 600s already in their fleet since 2022.
These ESPRITES have made a big difference to the scope of their lighting designs.
Justin’s first contact with Robe was back in 2011 when working for Koninklijke Nederlandse Gymnastiek Unie (KNGU), the Royal Dutch Gymnastics Union, as a lighting programmer and operator. The company hadpurchased Robe’s first generation DLX Spot luminaires, which were also to utilise the power and vibrance of amultispectral LED engine. He realised that these were robust and reliable and facilitated some great lightingpossibilities, and his regard for Robe grew from there. At some point along the way, JEM also acquired these DLX Spot fixtures from KNGU.
After COVID, although those original DLX Spots were still working well, Justin decided it was the time to up theante for the business, add new technology to the inventory and take everything up several notches. Wanting some more industry-standard moving lights, he once again thought of Robe.
Initially, 4 x LEDWash 600s and a few months later 10 x LEDBeam 150s joined the inventory, then he needed a workhorse bright profile fixture with plenty of features and organised a shootout for potential contenders.This was organised from Robe’s side by Benelux distributor Controllux, with whom JEM already enjoyed an excellent working relationship.
They also wanted accurate framing shutters, an efficient and effective frost, prisms and animation wheels.
Considering all of these elements together, and following an impressive shootout, they chose ESPRITES!
That ESPRITES would also nicely colour match their existing Robe fixtures was another bonus, butunderscoring the whole decision was also the outstanding local support and backup from Controllux. Justin commented on the quality of Controllux’s technical training programmes and he capitalised on this, soJEM’s regular technicians could learn about and understand the fixtures and conduct the maintenance themselves.
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