Incredible Moving Truss PLUS: How to be a Tour Manager

After a week in Germany, I headed straight to Toronto, Canada to resume the Anjunabeats North American Tour as their touring lighting programmer/operator. Check out my side of this crazy music industry.
REBEL is an incredible venue on the water with a massive production installation including automated truss rings, massive LED walls, tons of MADRIX universes for LED fixtures, and an apt lighting rig.
Elation Platinum FLX, Elation 360i, Martin Mac Auras, Elation Rayzor 2Rs, and some lekos made up the instrument list.
Thanks to Ilan Bluestone, Andrew Bayer, Jason Ross, Oliver Smith, and my mavic-flying, punter-punting, Lululemon-adorned super-Tour Manager Logan.
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[@0Phyzer0]

These moving LED Rings are so epic

[@apersonontheinternet222]

This might just be the coolest venue I have ever seen

[@AirBulletin]

rebel (The club in the video) is amazing

[@c31979839]

@@AirBulletin you mean the docks? ;) Haha just kidding. It has been renamed so many times over the years that I've lost track of what it's called now

[@AirBulletin]

c31979839 when was it called the Docks ?? That's pretty cool tbh.

[@musiccollectionbyms]

Check out Omnia Las Vegas

[@helyeah2016]

Gotta love Data Controlled motors!! If you hook up MA to that there is a track function (I believe that's what it's called) where the motor control server tells MA the height of the truss and it will adjust the lights to stay focused at the spot you left them. Super cool I really hope to work with that some day

[@LightCraftStudio]

There's too much legal red tape to do that. the operator they have isn't even their employee. Another company comes in to operate it and on top of that there's lots of beurocrasy inside the club. so the rings don't work the best they can and since they are "not broken" no one fixes them.

[@christianjackson]

sneaky late night upload for my European friends :)

[@jannikwoeste22]

Christian Jackson Greetings from a german fan

[@GameShadowSwE]

Christian Jackson greetings from Sweden! Awesome truss btw, I think I wet myself 🌝

[@skeeplays4409]

u are amazing! Greetings from germany :)

[@nah2860]

Strange question but do you know if countries have different regulations about how dark a club can be? I lived in the UK for years and the clubs were always a lot darker. Over here (Canada) I find I can always see from one of the club to the other. Someone mentioned that lighter clubs reduces drug dealing. Just wondering if there are any government regs... Thx.

[@gabriusv]

The troll editing was brilliant. Those trusses are out of this world. This video didn't feel like 9 minutes. Great job man.

[@armandpitout1307]

OMFG!!! this is so cool how the lights come done and the stand itself has screens on and that it dances with the beat of music not putting it off at all.... makes this so amazing!!!!

[@antonkroyer6179]

Your vids never dissapiont bro! I always look forward to your videos. Much love from Iceland!

[@applemann100]

I really like this kind of video. keep going! Also this venue is awesome.

[@jonathonwardlow2340]

Love the video my dude. Keep up the great work

[@ephjaymusic]

This is insane!!! Love watching such professionalism!

[@ppshekinabefreiung556]

In every of your videos are so important little infos to solve things.. thank you so much letting us take part on your knowledge and experience,

[@felixlaurencelle7016]

Amazing Visuals over there! Worth the drive!

[@lukewalker3905]

Hey Christian love your stuff man, thanks to you I got motivated to beef up portfolio to get a job as an assistant in Sydney op house theatre wing. Thanks for all the MA Tutorials as well helps a million please do another stream soon when you get the chance, on note of the automated rings we have a similar system with sound dampening rings with a few vipers rigged to them and they use DMX inputs but it's a custom make. Let me know if you find out or if you come to Australia sometime! Cheers Bro

[@andrewgjordeni]

christian jacksiom u're the man!!!!! love your vids

[@MMA.87]

love the lights..awesome show

[@totalentertainment5602]

This venu used to be called The Docks. I DJd there back in the late 90's early 2000's. The massive patio was the main focus back then. It's insane to see what they've done on the inside! WOW!!!

[@TheRunningCameraMan]

This is soo dope, I’m just starting out and this is really my dream😍😍

[@nick8892]

You did a great job with this show. Wish I was there to enjoy it as im also a big Anjuna fan.

[@drummerclint]

Glad you had a great time here in Canada. A bunch of my friends were at that show (I live only an hour away) but I had to work. Heard it was amazing! See ya soon in Ontario!

[@c31979839]

Wow, that automated trussing is super neat. I haven't been to this venue since they had them installed, so I'm going to have to go back and check this place out again.

[@fridgeflo]

WOW! Love your vids!!

[@davemcmahon7863]

Looked awesome mate

[@cyclops6772]

I got to see Dvbbs at Rebel as my first ever rave/show and Rebel by far has been the best venue ever.

[@TheSonidocobra]

Very nice show

[@adamhoeldke2841]

had a blast that night .. working there and building that place is at the top of my list!!! the automation sys i can give details on ;)

[@burieddeep5557]

looks sick, love your videos and I can't wait (but ill have to) for the zomboy your!

[@sukhvirbirdi9272]

Toronto's Las Vegas club... Rebel is quite amazing.

[@remy99c]

your job looks awesome af.

[@DisneyMarkUK]

Omg that rig!!!

[@alexlubbers1589]

Reminds me of the truss ring in Pink Floyd's P.U.L.S.E concert. The entire ring, lined with about 100 moving heads, tilted from vertical to horizontal during their performance of "Comfortably Numb", followed by a 15 foot wide disco ball that folded outward like an orange peel.

[@DjWooPig]

Holy automation!

[@StephenKazumi]

Ahh so happy you posted your stop at Rebel. I live down the street and was hoping you had made it.. Met Logan in Ottawa a few weeks back and was sad you weren't there :(

[@christianjackson]

Bummed too but I had other obligations! however soon there will not be other obligations to worry about :)

[@MikeDub334]

Man I think that's the best club light & video setup in the world, if there is one better please share it with me. Good job by the way.

[@alexlappano435]

god damn if i'd known you were in town I'd have come caught your show!

[@vanRossi]

Superb video, again. 🤗 One thing you mentioned about blinders... you miss them, but i never really understood blinders conceptionally (except creating an "extra black" to intense the following effect). When i'm in the crowd and the blinders go up i really don't like that 😂.

[@streams6679]

Wow wow

[@SoundOfResistance]

Yay, finally a video. Weird that i didn't recieve notification nor it was in sub box. But still, love the videos.

[@christianjackson]

youtube fuckery. if you hit the bell next to the sub button it will send notifications

[@DungeonsHeroes]

i always wondered about the electric cables in rigs like that. do they have a wireless system of sorts or they have like a "barrel roll" of sorts that pulls and releases more/less cable?

[@WikkidDJ]

Christian, what an accent to your tour. I'm buddies with one of the residents at Omnia in Vegas which you prob know has 7 or 8 concentric rings and a 3 level chandelier made up of a couple hundred led fixtures. IDK which one, but when it open in 2015 it was all Robe lighting and has expanded into lasers and other new tech that opened up possibilities for them. Back to your tour. Rebel looks huge and makes me wonder what is the occupancy limit and what the differences are overall with all things tech being in a different country. I fully got immersed and you bald headed buddy looks like it made things spontaneous at times.

[@jamesrbrindle]

Hey Christian, watched a load of your videos so far. The one rocks. None of my friends believe me that rig automation is possible or legal to use over public. Mannequins at Downtown Disney had something basic with several straight truss.pieces. :)

[@CharlieRivers1]

Hey Christian, forgive my ignorance but did you have to pre vis any of the clubs lights already installed with a program like vector works? I mainly do tv lighting and I am curious how the process and planning works for live events. Thanks for the great vid upload.

[@seffcraft]

4:55 AMAZING

[@movingheadmau8128]

i think moving truses always make a show even better! btw did you see the 4 segment thing at qlimax 2015 i think it was. it looked amazing even had pyros on it :D

[@calebloftus8577]

Can you post more about the moving truss and the rigging, its incredible. A Vegas club OMNIA may have been the first to do this?

[@ItsM-px9sy]

Man, I wanna perform there!

[@markgorbe]

Holy sh*t! that's cool!!!!!

[@danisantos3255]

Ahhh, Ilan made a live stream on his FB that day of the venue in a drone, now I see how it happened :)

[@soviut]

Hah, I was at this show and specifically was peeking over the railing at the lighting and audio boards.

[@ericgolpe]

Their rigging auto is interesting.. I recently saw a YT on RHCP tour with Tait's setup on their custom rigging that was pretty dope, and interfaced with DMX E1.31/ArtNet too. Push that envelope. ;) -1 point for no dronie shots on that skyline tho. We need to figure out how to do a coordinated drone show w/ some lightweight wireless dmx attached. hehe. Stay cool bro!

[@Grumpst3r]

Anjunabeats! I'm mad Jealous of this gig!

[@chilla939]

Need help with MA2onPC... what I wanted to know: Is it possible to insert all the gobos/ colours from a fixture into the Gobo/Colour window through the command line? Like lets say [...] gobo 1.1 thru 1.12 at [...] ?

[@creampiesunday]

I thought it was Omnia by the thumbnail

[@A.fontanella]

I Like the moving truss

[@TradeMarcTM]

This shit gives me goosebumps man. I WANT TO DO THIS!

[@Zaynatsa]

ah shoot. I live downtown and freelance tech in toronto. totally missed you aha

[@bouloudomlight9796]

Can you explain hox to program laser with MA onpc and I want to have the elation midicon so can you also explain haw program midi translator pro so as to use the elation midicon like a MA command wing please

[@MattLydon2010]

Anjunaaaa

[@DrTune]

This show wasn't timecoded right? If so, how do you nail the cues at e.g. 8:10 ?

[@MrAnsk]

What an epic Drone: I know is a DJI Mavic Pro XD

[@PETERBROWN-zx4fj]

Did you come through The Belasco in DTLA last year for an Insomniac/ Anjuana one off thing? I think it was you. I didn't remember your name but seeing it with the Anjuana name reminded me. Anyway- hope things are well. I'm actually going back out on the festival circuit again. I put my notice in at Belasco- last day is 10Mar- like 27 days. (and if it wasn't you- some dude you never met just told you he quit his job and whatever lol)

[@noidontknow5540]

What dmx you use for that Visualizer

[@lucgeurtz6489]

With lights are on the moving circle truss at 5:00?

[@HermioneFlow]

Does anyone know what type of fixtures were being used?

[@silentrice7399]

This reminds me of Gryffin's Gravity album

[@EarCandyContraption]

Yo CJ, were you doing lights for Escapade in Ottawa for the Anjuna stage?

[@christianjackson]

Somnambulose not me

[@m009bt]

the funny thing is i live in Toronto and i had no idea about rebel night club

[@rogersmukumbya1554]

I want to meet in person for further learning, is it possible sir?

[@argoslightingdesign4830]

Hey Christian it's caiden from messenger

[@TradeMarcTM]

Also, anyone in the States who is interested in a similar club, check out Omnia in Las Vegas!

[@billyfouronesix]

TradeMarc™ Always wonder how Omnia feels about this venue.

[@seutuleonfixed]

How do they move the truss

[@LorcanWall]

do you ever get headaches after shows?

[@BrianRussTVC]

Last couple of tour I've been on haven't had cryo, I had forgotten how fucking loud cryo jets can be.

[@user-eh6df7zs1t]

good

[@ChristopherdeVilliers]

I would love to learn more about the animatronics involved in those rings.

[@telimarkskierman]

lmao animatronics?

[@fredyromero9621]

looks like Hakassan from L.V!

[@misterman5651]

christian are you in to planes?

[@bladecutx1103]

Wow😮😮😮 a moving truss that is dmx capable you dont se that evryday 😃😃😃

[@bobbycrook]

Strobes are nothing without the bass ha ha .....god said let there be light as sound was already rigged ha ha another great video ;)

[@SoCalFreelance]

8:08 How do you know the *exact* moment to blast all the lighting? Seems like it would be so easy to miss the mark.

[@ianm551]

That was an edit there, but he would've built up to the drop and could sense it coming. Additionally, christian would know the songs before hand as he is on tour with them.

[@gordonm6128]

Ian McClellan yeah that was amazing! I thought the show was over before the drop. And to being up the perfect lights right on cue - magic.

[@wxwxn3186]

mantap gan

[@nevarema]

I love me some quality content

[@JamesLawsonSmith]

What is more scary than Boston Dynamics? ...Google now own them.

[@christianjackson]

James Lawson-Smith yikes

[@sandeepsingh-sn5qd]

How to manage movement of wiring with these truss

[@gordonm6128]

Extra wire slack. You’re welcome.

[@felixmwitah8409]

snapchat squad!

[@abiliosousaBillyCrow]

I think I saw 1 fixture not doing nothing is that possible? I have screen prints of that keep the good work

[@joshcurnes5006]

abilio sousa Could be broken.

[@Kini_the_Fox]

have you ever done a show for Above & Beyond?

[@christianjackson]

Cullen 12345 I wish. Hopefully one day

[@Kini_the_Fox]

Christian Jackson that Would be epic. All the more reason come see one of their gigs. I love your videos; keep up the awesome work man

[@ModdedMusic]

song at 8:25

[@ThomasDevOnline]

I thought they were Ayrton Magic Dots lol

[@kaytwentyy]

what's the song at 2:37 to 2:44????

[@wafflestoast5228]

Dagger Bomb Darude - Sandstorm

[@worldofdavep]

What is the track at 7:18 when the massive drop arrives?

[@InstantMix]

also very keen to find this out

[@InstantMix]

found it, it's Andrew Bayer : Memories

[@jack-o-wack-o3666]

Yoooooooo hold up why does Christian Jackson have ForeFlight 😳

[@christianjackson]

Doesn’t everyone?

[@bradleeyyy2019]

Next thing you know awww fuck the fire alarms are going off

[@KRICK018STUDIO]

日本に来たことはありますか？

[@marcelleblanc1991]

That single dead mover on the center automated circle truss bothers me.... #LDProblems But other than that its an amazing venue!

[@RichardMaglov]

Lasagne

[@christianjackson]

Richard Maglov moms fettuccine

[@julianmeyer549]

Looks like omnia

[@Audastrian]

Did I miss the reason why there weren't coming uploads lately? D:

[@christianjackson]

Audastrian insanely busy with career opportunities. Which is annoying in some ways because it leaves me less time to make videos, but the things I'm doing are cooler and cooler

[@Audastrian]

Christian Jackson Perfect, focus on that. We will stay loyal to you :D. Thanks for the information.

[@daviddescheneaux9194]

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[@OatmealDonk]

how much are you getting payed to be able to afford a $1000 camera?

[@gordonm6128]

More than you.