Intelligent Lighting & Consoles

Intelligent Lighting Rental in Nashville — Moving Heads, DMX, and Designers Who Know How to Use Them

A pile of moving heads doesn’t make a lighting design. A programmer who knows the fixtures, a console that runs the show file without crashing, and an idea about what the lighting should do at each moment of the event — that’s the design. Nashville Audio Visual rents the fixtures and the consoles, and our lighting designers build the show file. The result is intentional, cue-stack-driven lighting that follows the program instead of fighting it.

The control surface: HOG 4 and entry-level DMX

Our flagship is the HOG 4 lighting console — the industry-standard board for touring concerts, large corporate productions, and broadcast events that need real-time effects on top of a programmed cue stack. For mid-size events that don’t need full HOG 4 horsepower, MyDMX 3.0 gives our designers DMX programming on a laptop platform. For simple wash-and-color rigs that need a one-button operator, the ADJ Stage Setter 8 handles per-channel and per-scene faders.

Moving heads — spots, washes, and beams

For framing, gobos, prism effects, and crisp on-stage focus pools: Chauvet Professional Rogue R2X Spot and the smaller Chauvet Intimidator Spot 260. For broad color washes that paint the room and crossfade across the band, presenter, or speaker panel: Chauvet Professional Rogue R2X Wash and the punchy Martin MAC Aura XB — the wash light that defined modern concert design with its dense aerial beams and saturated color.

For high-end framing and beam shaping, the High End Systems SolaFrame 750 is one of the sharpest framing spots on the market — precise shutter cuts, beautiful animation wheels, and the color quality you want on a CEO’s face during a keynote.

Battery-powered & specialty fixtures

For venues without floor power runs, Chauvet Colorado Solo S battery-powered washes deliver full-show runtimes wirelessly. Need a tight pin-spot on a centerpiece, sponsor logo, or product reveal? The ADJ Inno Pocket Z4 handles compact zoom-able beams without overpowering the wider lighting design.

DMX, networking, and show files

Renting fixtures and a console is half the job. Our lighting team handles the rest — DMX universe planning, sACN/Art-Net networking when the rig calls for it, fixture patching, cue stack programming, follow-spot ops if you have a featured presenter, and show files saved between rehearsal and showtime so nothing has to be rebuilt twice. We’ve been programming lighting in Nashville since 1995. Our DMX primer for event planners covers the basics if you want to learn more.

Building a lighting design for your event? Send us the run-of-show, the venue, and the look you’re after and we’ll spec the fixtures, the console, and the programmer.