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The 26-year career of of James LaBrie on vocals, getting the same lighting system twice, I Having wysiwyg on the road was the my show on my laptop. The beams looked the speed of wysiwyg R27. Also the band band Dream Theater has been engaging on bass, on guitars, Mike needed to decide whether to busk, or run right choice because most of the festival so real. It was like having the lighting appreciated the consistent look of their audiences worldwide year after year. The Mangini on drums and on my show cue to cue style. designers use wysiwyg too, and they were system in front of me. If there were any show. Plus wysiwyg allowed me to work 2011 Summer European Festival tour, keyboards. For Dream Theater, I built a show cue more than happy to share their files with glitches in the cloning I could see them. It on the shows anytime I had a chance…on hit 20 major music festivals and one-offs Steve Baird, longtime wysiwyg User to cue, using spot, wash and LED type me. This was a huge benefit, especially was stress free on show days as all I had the tour bus, in a hotel room and travelling beginning in Rome and ending in Hungary, and LD for the band, shares how wysiwyg moving fixtures withwysiwyg R27. After I for the larger shows such as High Voltage to do was adjust focus positions and work though airports.” drawing legions of fans to their monu- proved to be a tremendous friend on the programmed the initial show, I advanced Festival in London’s Victoria Park and So- with hard edge focus for gobos. The rest I mental catalog of releases and dynamic, road: each event, got the technical spec sheets, nisphere in Metz, where the fixture patch did on wysiwyg. marathon live shows. “Festival Tours are always lots of fun. drew up each layout in wysiwyg and then and position distances were all set. There were lots of positive comments The band, formed in 1985, is comprised Knowing that I had the challenge of never cloned my show to all the different layouts. It was awesome to be able to playback from techs and LDs on the beams and

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