I've been asked by a friend, who is adding a live music room to his bar, to suggest what lights he should buy and where to place them to best light up the performers on stage and look good to the audience.
The stage is a curved wedge (think quarter of a pizza shaped) in one corner of the live music venue.
The straight edges of the stage are 5 metres long.
The stage will be 30cm high.
The room height is only 3 metres. Giving only 2.70 metres from stage to ceiling.
For a standard live band set up of drums, bass, guitars and vocals, the drums will be back in the corner, backline either side of the drums, and musicians towards the front of the stage, on or near the curve.
My friend and I think that we only want a simple set up of some LED pars or bars for colour washes and some mini moving heads for interest.
With such a low ceiling, would you recommend wide angle led pars or would led bar lights be better?
Which ever we choose, they will have to be placed at a steep enough angle over the performers so that they don't get blinded.
Should we have some pars/bars backlighting the band also?
As for the mini moving heads, please take a look at the attached photo.
Where do you think the best placement for these would be?
Also, what would be the simplest controller(s), hardware or software, to operate during a gig, from song to song. Most appropriate for a small venue, with an easy learning curve for beginner operators?
Many thanks for any advice/suggestions