CSP once again joined forces with Chester Performs to help produce a wonderful live art event that took place within the walls of  Chester Castle.  With over 4 thousand in attendance spread over 2 days there was plenty to do. Supplying all lighting, sound, video and site power to the whole site was a tricky job as most of the acts were open to the elements, but with a bit of luck the weather held off and everything went down a storm (sorry couldn’t resist) check out the photo’s at http://www.chesterperforms.com/upthewall/2011/11/04/up-the-wall-gallery/

After many months of planning CSP have just returned from excel after supplying equipment for one of our biggest shows of the year, with 3 artic wagons of equipment installed over 2 days, with a total of 67 crew, 14 boxes of alcons line array, over 400lighting fixtures, 6 HD projectors with a 3 line camera system, there was plenty to do but as usual the show ran as smooth as ever.

Have a look in our gallery for more pics!

CSP have just returned from producing its 5th College Awards, after a very successful 2010 Awards, we were worried how we were going to top them, but as usual we pulled all the creative stops out, by providing a stunning back drop made up of 3 layers, the fisrt layer was a 16m LED star cloth, the second was a 12m x 1m aluminium hung frame with stretched canvass and finally 4 aluminium frames with printed sharks tooth gauze alongside a 4m widescreen, all aspects of the set were flown independently giving the set dimension. There were several new lighting products eagerly used on this event, our new beam kits for the martin mac 250 wash (just as good as the clay paky and not just a 1 trick pony!) and also our new RGB LED Tape. This year the client opted for High Definition and were amazed with the results, using our Sanyo 10K FullHD Projectors along with DVi Fibre Optic Cable, the on screen graphics and camera’s looked stunning.

Frameworks once again chose CSP to bring their ideas to life, this time for the UNITE Rules conference held at liverpool BT Convention Center. for the video system we needed some very punchy machines to fill the 18m x 4.85m Screen, we specced Barco FLM R22+ machines with Barco R12′s as back up, they were soft edge blended using a Catalyst Gorilla System which took in sources from camera’s, graphics and a voting system, a second Catalyst system was used as a matrix to distribute the screen content around the building to plasma screens. CSP provided 180m of prolyte H30v Truss, along with 32 motorised chain blocks, 60 ADB F101 Fresnels, 24 Source4 Zoom and a 72 way AVO Dimmer Rack. For the audio equipment we supplied 12 boxes of NEXO Geo S1210 Line array, 8 shermann RS1, 4 Shermann R2m , 4 Shermann G5, all powered by lab gruppen and nexo amps,the front of house of desk was a Soundcraft Vi1. The whole event went without a hitch and our client was once again very pleased with everything we supplied, this also marked our 9th year of supplying equipemnt to Frameworks, here’s to many more years of service!

CSP have just received the exciting news that they have won the contract to supply all lighting equipment to Chester Performs Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre. CSP will install 48 Source Four Pars, 2 x Avolite Powercubes, Power distro and a Strand 300 Lighting desk. After working on several projects in 2010 supplying video for the Screen Deva event, Chester Performs were impressed with CSP’s techinical knowledge and delivery, Steven Williams, CSP Director, commented ”this is a great achievement forCSP and shows how diverse our client base has become, we have traditionally had very strong ties within the corprate sector and it has been great to have this opportunity to work within the performing arts, especially after the closure of Chester’s Gateway Theatre”

For the second year running CSP were asked to provide all equipment for the M&S Summer Ball held at Chester Racecourse. After listening to our clients brief we got got straight to work, we designed a central flown box truss in the centre of the room from which we swagged the room in a ivory voile, this gave us a central lighting point to cover the room, with over 60 LED fixtures and 20 moving heads including clay paky alpaha beams and Martin mac 25o entours. The PA system was nexo GEOS 1210 line array with Soundcraft vi1 Digital console. We also provided our new quick lock drape system with over 90m of white drape.

 For the Second year running CSP have been asked to provide all PA & Lighting equipment for the Chester Music Festival Town Hall Concerts. Following on from the highly succesful first year CSP have once again gone all digital with a Yamaha LS9 32 Channel Desk and 2 x SB16ES Ethernet Multi Cores, opting for the ShermannAudio G5 System this year all driven by Shermann’s new 421a Power Amps.

CSP audio visual were proud to be sponsors of this years Chester screen diva, The 10 day festival offered an engaging programme of newly commissioned artists’ work, independent films released in the last 12 months, special events and classic cinema.CSP provided full av support. As part of the av hire we supplied all video projection, lighting and PA equipment.The event was held at St Mary’s Chester the main screen was projected using a sanyo XF71 10000 ansi projector, video processing was powered by the analogue way Di Ventix. lighting consisted of Martin Mac 550′s, Ipix Satalites, SGM Palco 3 all controlled from a Pearl 2008, the PA consisted of a Logic SP15 and XP18 Self powered speakers, as part of the project we were also asked to supply a Sanyo XF47 15000 lumens to project onto the Water Tower and “bring back” the water that surrounded it over 700 years ago. the results were stunning!

As this was the 6th year CSP has worked on the APA conference our aim was to make the event the best yet. Following many brainstorming sessions, CSP developed a complete Audio Visual package. The set was designed to incorporate similarites to the APA website. using aluminium and sharks tooth gauze to great effect. a full day build with 12 crew, we provided, Sanyo projectors, analog way switcher, Panasonic vision mixer, Sony camera’s,Yamha LS9 32 channel desk, Lab Gruppen Amps, Shermann Loudspeakers, Ipix Satalite LED and Martin Fixtures.

The Whole event was a huge success our client commenting on “how everything ran so smoothly”

CSP were asked to provide PA Hire to support Chester Festivals Summer Music Festival this year, supporting acts such as Penguin Cafe Orchestra and Kathryn Tickell. With both concerts being sell outs there was little room for front of house, the solution was to use a Yamaha LS932 and 2 x Yamaha SB168-ES digital mutlicore systems, the whole front of house only took 6 chairs out of the audience. A Shermann RS5 rig was used as main Front of house system, with a futher 4 x Shermann RS1 used as front fills., on stage monitors were a mixture of Shermann LM4′s and Shermann MRL601. The results were fantastic with both travelling FOH engineers being delighted with the equipment provided.