Baltimore-based rock band All Time Low is currently out on a US tour in support of its
newest album, Last Young Renegade, released on 2 June. For lighting control on the
road, LD Jeff Maker is running his design on a pair of Avolites Sapphire Touch consoles
supplied by JR Lighting Design of Tinley Park, IL, which also furnished the tour’s
lighting fixtures, video package and rigging.

Maker shares that Avolites consoles have been his preferred console brand since
2006, and he has used the Sapphire Touch on ten tours, including this one, since
March of 2015. “I continue to choose this console because of its fast software and its
ability to work smoothly with both copper lines and CAT5, allowing me to use more
DMX lines than most consoles on the market,’ he says.

The Young Renegades tour features a rig full of profiles, strobes, washes and a back
wall of LED video panels in a cityscape orientation. “I am controlling the video content
from the Avo console, but it is run through two servers on stage, and it is all time-
coded,’ he says. “And I add in anything else from the house rigs when it makes
sense.’

The LD points out that helpful features of the Sapphire Touches, which are running
Titan v10.1 software, include pixel mapping and multiple layering/movement FX,
along with their “super sensitive touch screens, the set list feature to jump from page
to page quickly and easily, and the ease with cloning fixtures.’

Maker further appreciates the ability to link the two Avo consoles together as a
backup, loves the automated faders, and says that something “even as small as being
able to import your own images or graphics to set the perfect personal legend’ will
keep him using the console for future tours.

Additional features that have come in handy on this particular tour have included the
key frame shape generator and pixel mapper “to help create dynamic effects with
ease,’ the LD adds. “Both of those features help me raise my show programming and
design ideas to a higher level, for sure.’

“Jeff is a fantastic designer,’ enthuses JR Lighting design president Jason Reberski,
who notes that his company previously worked with Maker on two Pierce The Veil
tours and provided the specified Avolites consoles for those treks as well. “Avolites is
his first love and first choice, so we’re happy to accommodate him. He’s one of the
best Avolites programmers in the country—the best I’ve seen.’