CASE STUDY

Disguise GX 3
server powers
Adele’s Las
Vegas Residency

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Summary
Weekends with Adele is the ﬁrst concert
residency by Grammy-winning British singer
Adele and it is powered by Disguise. Held at
The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las
Vegas, the ﬁve-month series of Friday andSaturday night shows commenced inNovember 2022 and runs through to March2023.
In this case study you will see how ten Disguise GX 3 media
servers and the Disguise OmniCal projector calibrator helped
Solotech deliver an elegant, media-rich environment for Adele’s
performance to the enjoyment of her legions of fans. As theﬁrst company to invest in an inventory of the recently released
Disguise GX 3s, Solotech’s ﬁrst project with the equipment wasable to keep up with the demands of one of the world’s mosthigh-proﬁle tours.

Image credits: StuﬁshThe challenge
The same Solotech and Treatment teams had
previously worked with Matt Askem, Adele’svideo director, last year on her concerts forBritish Summer Time Hyde Park. Adele wasvery involved with the look of the show, which
went beyond using traditional IMAG andrequired media servers with powerfulcapabilities.
For Adele’s Las Vegas residency, Solotech and Adele’s teampicked up on the beyond-traditional IMAG approach using
Notch and LUTs to give a very elegant look to content thatmatched with cameras and also matched projection screens to
two diﬀerent types of LEDs.
Although projection has taken a back seat to LED displays inrecent years, Solotech sees projection making a resurgence.
Every projector, however, needs a full-scale image and for ashow with the scope of Adele’s – featuring more than 15 4K
projectors – that means driving a massive number of pixels
compared to what is needed for an all-LED display. The show
required powerful media servers with high-capacity storage tohandle the sheer amount of data for the projection screens plus
Solotech’s and house LED videowalls.

Image credits: StuﬁshSOLOTECH“Whilst there are many media
servers on the market, thecompany you are purchasing itfrom must give you the conﬁdence
you need when working on a
project of this scale. Solotech cancall Disguise, and the Disguiseteam is on it. There’s a mutualunderstanding from both teams of
the importance of this show.”“Woody” Woodall
Director of Special ProjectsThe solution
Solotech initially speciﬁed Disguise GX 2 media
servers for the show, but, knowing that GX 3
media servers were coming soon, Solotech
recommended that Adele’s production designteam consider the new GX 3 for their increased
pixel-pushing capabilities and the processing
power they oﬀered for Notch graphics.
Known as the go-to media server for touring artists who wantto run the most intricate set designs, the GX 3 provides more
video throughput, the ability to unlock new creative potential
for Notch generative content, and peak performance formodern workﬂows and complex video ﬁles. Coupled with
Disguise’s OmniCal camera-based projector calibration system,
the Disguise solution was a win-win for the show.

Image credits: StuﬁshResults
The projection-intensive show created for
Adele’s residency oﬀers a warmth andauthenticity that critics and fans have
responded to. Just an unforgettable show thatWoodall likens to the feeling of listening to agreat vinyl recording.
According to Woodall, “there was a Who’s Who in live events
behind Weekends with Adele, resulting in a show that is‘outstanding’ and the balance between projection and LED
enhances the intimacy that Adele was hoping for.”“Solotech wants to be at the forefront, investing in newtechnology, but we need to be conﬁdent in the technology,suppliers and suppliers’ support of the technology as we are in
our relationships. There are new solutions on the market every
day, but that doesn’t mean they are great. We were pleased towork with Disguise on this project.,” explains Woodall.

Image credits: StuﬁshDisguise equipment used

OMNICALDESIGNER

GX 3

Our camera-based projector
calibration system, OmniCal
quickly captures a point cloud of
your projection surface andaccurately calibrates projectors.

Designer is the ultimate software
to visualise, design, andsequence projects at every stage,
from concept all the way throughto showtime.

The GX 3 is the most powerfuland versatile Disguise machine todate, unlocking new potential ingenerative graphics thanks to its
GPU’s processing capabilities.

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Find out moreIn Partnership with
Video equipment Supplier: Solotech
Design: Stuﬁsh
Production Manager, Adele: Paul English
Creative Director: Matt Askem

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