Meet the German Light Products TWYN, a dual-face moving head that combines two very familiar GLP worlds into one compact fixture.

GLP names a new marketing director, Volux launches the CueWash 300B, Claypaky fixtures hit Eurovision 2026, 4Wall Entertainment announces a new European HQ, and a closer look at the Master FX Mystic 2 hazer.

When German Light Products launched the Impression X5, they did something the rest of the industry wasn't quite ready for: they bet the whole platform on lime. Explore the GLP Impression X5 family and the RGBL color engine that helped redefine LED lighting. From iQ.Gamut color science to the X5 Wash, Bars, IP fixtures, and Dot Wash, we break down how GLP’s lime-based approach changed modern stage lighting.

Plenty of hazers can fill a room. Far fewer are designed for what happens after the first show, when the night-after-night, tour-after-tour reality of professional production sets in. We've spent a lot of time with the Master FX Mystic 2, and across hands-on demos, side-by-side fluid tests, and road tests with the crews who use it daily, the same theme keeps surfacing: the machine just works.

This year's design for the L.A.B. Stage at Breakaway Festival put two Volux Lighting fixtures in the workhorse role: The Volux Lighting Phantom and Volux Lighting Phyton. Combining their versatile effects package and IP rated durability is delivering massive punch at the immersive deep house stage on this years circuit, provided by Premier Entertainment Group.

Explore Claypaky’s Arolla Aqua S-LT and M-LT long-throw profiles, built with IP66 protection, precision optics, shared DMX, and a full creative toolbox.

Our list of the most common live event production software platforms listed with the most up-to-date release. Download links included.

We're covering GLP's impression X5 series powering DJ BoBo's arena rig across Europe, the Volux PHYTON earning its stripes in its first real-world deployment at ULTRA 2026, Claypaky and Patrick Woodroffe inspiring a thousand lighting professionals at ScenaJutra, 4Wall building a fully redundant broadcast network for the NFL Draft in Pittsburgh, and Master FX settling into a brand-new headquarters.

Inside CineVita’s 360° spiegeltent, Michael Berger and Eric Baum bring concert-scale lighting energy to Teen Beat Live: 80s Movie Mixtape.

Programming one Coachella set is a year of work compressed into an hour at FOH. Make it two of them, on the same Friday, and it is now a totally different kind of challenge. That was the job in front of Courtny Seipel at Coachella 2026, where she ran lighting for Australian electronic producer Ninajirachi on the Sonora stage and Gordo on the Yuma stage across both weekends. Two artists, two genres, two completely different rigs, and the mental flip between them on a tight clo

German Light Products built its reputation on quality of light. The Impression X5 family has been the gold standard across touring, broadcast, and theatre for years now, and the iQ.Gamut color engine that powers it is one of the most powerful on the market. But flagship fixtures come with flagship price tags, and not every show, rental inventory, or rig position can justify an all-X5 package. Enter the Wild family. GLP's newer line asks a different question: what if we took t

The Do LaB stage runs on a different metabolism than the rest of the Coachella grounds. Six days, nearly 90 artists across two weekends, no two sets shaped exactly alike. For LD Jake Roeber, returning for his second year operating the stage, that meant living at FOH long enough to watch his own show file evolve in real time.

From smoke detector guidance to a fluid estimator, Master FX provides practical education across its full range of effects equipment. The tutorials, breakdowns, tools, and resources are designed for those of us who want to understand what’s actually happening, not just press the button and hope for the best.

Ganja White Night launched their inaugural Cloud City Music Festival, taking over Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre in Greenwood Village, Colorado for two nights of heavy bass and high-concept visuals. Held April 17 and 18 2026, the event ran 24 artists across two stages, with three separate performances from Ganja White Night themselves anchoring a lineup that also featured Boogie T, Truth, Jesse Royal, Zion Marley, Sister Nancy, and a deep supporting bill. Visuals were shaped by

A London takeover at this scale demanded a production that could match the moment while honoring the moody, club-rooted DNA of Prospa's sound. Leading creative direction and production design was Elliot Baines of SPIRAL, who approached Prophecy not as a standard concert but as an immersive, chapter-driven journey built from light, video, lasers and sculptural set pieces.

On a tour like Bad Bunny's Debí Tirar Más Fotos World Tour, nobody is chosen by accident. The show itself is built around more than 1,100 fixtures! That means every vendor on the call sheet has to prove they belong there.

For a long time, HazeBase didn’t need to chase trends. They were the standard. The BaseHazer Pro, launched more than 30 years ago, became one of those machines you just assumed would be in the room. Touring rigs, theatres, television studios, nightclubs. It earned its reputation by being consistent, efficient, and nearly impossible to kill. Over the past few years, HazeBase has gone from legacy staple to one of the most forward-thinking brands in atmospheric effects. In 202

This time around, the RESISTANCE Megastructure at ULTRA Music Festival 2026 served as the global launchpad for the Volux Lighting PHYTON, the company's IP66-rated hybrid-profile moving head, marking the first time the fixture has appeared on an actual production since its announcement.

New gear announcements get the headlines, but the real story is always in the deployment. This round of What's Trending is about what happens after the spec sheet: how fixtures, panels, and machines actually perform when they hit a 2,000-year-old archaeological site in Rome, a multi-stage festival build in the Florida heat, or a touring rig that has to look identical in every city.

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