Vision Tritium de Ross, at the Tony Awards

The new 3 MLE mixer includes the popular ‘AuxKey’ functions of its bigger brother Vision Octane, offering powerful tools for complex events like the Tony Awards.

Mdots Fontastics, a California-based company specializing in giant screen productions at live events, has used the new Vision Tritium from Ross Video at the 2013 Tony Awards, held recently at Radio City Music Hall in New York.

The new 3 MLE mixer includes the popular 'AuxKey' functions of its bigger brother Vision Octane. In addition to 3 standard MLEs, it also has a dozen AuxKeys or Mini MLEs. These AuxKeys are used to power the independent mixed and key outputs for all the screens on the stage that were the backdrop at the Tony Awards.

Its custom programmable controls made it possible to complexly manage the different screens displayed as the backdrop of this three-hour show broadcast on CBS.

In the past, it was necessary to have customized hardware and control systems, while now a single Tritium makes eye-catching audiovisual staging possible.

Allan Wells, owner of Mdots Fontastics, has gone so far as to say that “I can safely say that we could not have done this year's Tony Awards in such a spectacular way without the excellent contribution of the people at Ross Video and their fantastic new mixer.”

For his part, Nigel Spratling, business development director at Ross Video, said: "Vision Tritium offers an enormous amount of production resources, as demonstrated by an event of this complexity. There are really no other products on the market that can compare. With Tritium we have raised the price/performance bar and in the short time since its launch we have been inundated with questions and appointment requests. We are pleased to see that Tritium looks like it is going to make a real contribution to helping our customers to get more for less.”