LIVE NIRVANA EQUIPMENT GUIDE Lighting Rider

NIRVANA lighting designer, Susanne Sasic, outlines the lighting rider used on the 1992 Nevermind tour. This article was originally published in Channels, #12

All Lee colours.

1 white cyclorama
4 x 4 cell cyc lights, 1k per cell.

8 x 1200x Mark II Golden Scans - Golden Scans should be positioned on the truss so they can be focussed on the cyc as well as the stage. Scans must have at least 6 colours and 6 gobos (Stars, Rings, Spirals, etc.) and strobing ability.

2 x 1500w strobe lights - strobes must have a splitter cable and a single remote control (with rate and intensity control) located at the board.

84 x 1k Par NSP

48 x 1k Par MFL

24 x 650w ACLs with colour changers - Lee Colours 122, 116, 128, 106, 119, 196, 135, 105.

8 x 650w ACLs

2 x 2k follow spots - Lee colours 141, 135, 128, 124, 106, 105.

Jands Event 96 channel board capable of controlling both dimmers and moving lights. Golden Scans control should be on board channels 67 through 94 as follows:

Channel Function Golden Scans numbers
67 Iris 1,2,3,4
68 Shutter 1,2,3,4
69 Colour 1,4
70 Colour 2,3
71 Gobo 1,4
72 Gobo 2,3
73 movement, left/right Scan 1
74 movement, up/down Scan 1
75 movement, left/right Scan 2
76 movement, up/down Scan 2
77 movement, left/right Scan 3
78 movement, up/down Scan 3
79 movement, left/right Scan 4
80 movement, up/down Scan 4
81 Iris 5,6,7,8
82 Shutter 5,6,7,8
83 Colour 5,8
84 Colour 6,7
85 Gobo 5,8
86 Gobo 6,7
87 movement, left/right Scan 5
88 movement, up/down Scan 5
89 movement, left/right Scan 6
90 movement, up/down Scan 6
91 movement, left/right Scan 7
92 movement, up/down Scan 7
93 movement, left/right Scan 8
94 movement, up/down Scan 8

© Susanne Sasic, 1992