The lighting at CHM’s Barberton event center had quietly aged into a liability. Several of the fixtures were over two decades old, some had stopped working entirely, and the high-wattage incandescent units in the rig had pushed parts of the electrical system beyond what they were rated for. On camera, the result was a flat, top-down look on stage, no dedicated backlight, and obvious coverage gaps from one side of the deck to the other.

MediaNet AV designed a clean LED rebuild built around 24 Chauvet Professional Ovation E-160WW fixtures. Sixteen mount on a new custom Light Source MegaBatten that sits eighteen inches below the original front pipe, flattening the angle of light onto faces, with four more positioned overhead for the backlight the room had never had. Two Maverick Storm 2 Profile movers were added at the balcony for color and movement, and a City Theatrical Multiverse wireless DMX system tied the balcony into the main control patch without any new cable runs through the architecture. Everything reports back to a single ChamSys QuickQ 20 touchscreen console.

The new rig pulls roughly 40 amps where the previous system pulled 480, and the electrical hazards that had been building under the old fixtures are gone with it. CHM’s video team can now run a service from named cues on the console, and the stage reads consistently on camera from front to back.