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Tony Perez invests in Avolites D7

Mexico-based lighting designer Tony Perez has invested in a new Avolites D7-215 lighting console, adding to his growing collection of Avolites products. At the time, this was the first D7 in Mexico. 

Perez’s industry career started as a DJ when he was a music-loving teenager still at high school, and he’s been a lighting designer and industry professional since 1989. Since around 1993, Avolites has been his lighting control platform of choice.

He recently used his D7 as the main lighting console at six sold-out shows that Mexican rock band Zoé played at the Estadio GNP Seguros in CDMX, running approximately 820 lighting fixtures, a mixture of moving lights and LED sources, including 120 Robe Fortes.

In Mexico, Avolites has been distributed by Showco for several years, a sales and distribution company that has been successful in getting the brand back to the forefront of concert and show lighting control. Designers like Perez have been instrumental in this success, but Perez has also enjoyed a few other Avolites firsts over the years - he was the first person in Mexico to own a Tiger Touch console and the first again with an Arena console back in the day.

Perez encountered his first Avolites console, a Diamond 3, in the early 1990s. After that, he started to learn how to use the consoles and their operating architecture. He moved to the Pearl range when that was launched in the mid-1990s.

In 2002-03, he moved on to the Avolites Titan platform, which he has been using ever since version 2.5, and the first console that he purchased running Titan was the Tiger Touch in 2009, which was also his first ever console investment.

As his career has advanced and grown, so have the console purchases. The first Tiger Touch was acquired to run a major event at the Monument to the Revolution in CDMX for the Mexican Bicentenary celebrations in 2010. He now uses his D7, Quartz, Tiger Touch II or Arena consoles constantly, depending on the size and nature of the show.

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