LED Stage Lighting – An Overview
LED Stage Lighting offers many advantages over traditional stage lighting equipment like tungsten lamps. While tungsten lamps can provide strong brightness, they come with several drawbacks: they aren’t environmentally friendly, have high running costs, generate a lot of heat, and need frequent replacement. Additionally, creating colour with tungsten lamps involves using gels or filters, which have to be changed manually—a cumbersome process during performances.
LED Stage Lighting technology has advanced significantly in recent years and is now a popular choice across many types of venues. It’s especially beneficial for settings like schools, dance and drama studios, community centres, church halls, and other places operating on tight budgets where reducing running costs is a priority.
There are several key advantages to using LED lighting over traditional tungsten lanterns. LED systems are more energy-efficient, produce less heat, and require less maintenance. They also provide greater flexibility, allowing colours to be changed quickly without manual filters. Modern lighting control systems can easily manage moving heads and other lighting equipment, making LED stage lighting an ideal choice for a wide range of performances and events.
Low Power Consumption – Energy Efficient LED Stage Lighting
LED fixtures come into their own here by utilising a fraction of the power required by tungsten lamps. This has the advantage of not only reducing any operating outlay but also the ability to run many fixtures over a single circuit or even a domestic 13A socket resulting in reduced installation infrastructure costs. Perfect for the smaller venue.
Lower Heat Output – Stage Lighting
LED stage lighting fixtures today can produce a highly bright light output with hardly any heat radiation compared to a tungsten fixture. There are many instances where a lower heat output would be desirable such as in TV broadcast, enclosed and smalle stage areas, dance and drama studios where high heat-producing lanterns would make the working or performance space uncomfortable.
Flexible Colour Changing and Lighting Effects
Tungsten fixtures require coloured gel placed in front of the lens to achieve performance colour effects, which usually means building up access equipment and manually changing between performances.
LED stage lighting fixtures incorporate primary colour red, blue and green LEDs often offered with additional white, amber and ultra violet options. When combined the they create thousands of colour variations for lighting designers to work with. White and Amber optional create tungsten (warm) or daylight (cold/blue) lighting perfect for theatre or camera studios.This can all be controlled over DMX from a conventional lighting desk at ground level, eliminating the time-consuming colour changing of traditional fixtures.
This is beneficial for any production that wants to prompt a “wow” factor from its audience. Colours can create a great atmosphere and interesting symbolism on a stage, as well as projecting an ideal ambience for the public.
Lightweight, Compact and Easy To Install
LED stage lighting fixtures can be lightweight, compact and easy to install. Fixtures can be subtly added to sensitive environments and small spaces and are often nowadays convection cooled rather than noisy fan cooled. They are also easily portable so can work flexibly to your specific requirements on the day.
Add To Your Existing Tungsten Lighting System
LED lighting is a good choice for any space that is considering replacing its old and inefficient lighting systems with newer, more flexible and cost-efficient ones. You can even combine the LED light with your existing tungsten bulbs to get the best of both worlds, and this can be managed from one control system, making life easier for you and enabling you to be as creative as you like with your lighting.
This is because LED fixtures use the same control (DMX) as conventional lighting dimmer and fixtures, a full system can comprise a mixture of tungsten, LED and most others from the vast array of available performance lighting fixtures.
Please visit our stage lighting installation Stage Lighting Installation page for further details on the services we provide clients.
Read more about how LED has helped our clients at St Dunstan’s Church, St Paul’s School Drama Centre and Liverpool John Moores TV Studio
You can call us on 0161 241 2785 or email to discuss LED Stage Lighting for your venue.