Martin Professional Lighting at LV Guitars
Martin Professional has earned its place on the world's biggest stages — and at LV Guitars, you'll find their full range of intelligent lighting ready to serve the performers, production crews, and venue operators who demand gear that never lets them down when the curtain goes up. From intimate theater runs to arena-scale touring rigs, Martin fixtures are built to work as hard as the acts they illuminate.
Whether your next show is a club residency, a broadcast session, or a festival main stage, Martin's lineup — spanning architectural LED strips, pixel-mapped video tiles, and high-output moving heads — gives your production team the creative tools and the road-proven reliability to pull it off night after night.
The Martin Professional Story
Martin Professional grew from a Scandinavian design culture that prized precision engineering and bold creative capability in equal measure. Over the decades the brand became synonymous with intelligent moving-head fixtures, earning placement on tours, in broadcast studios, and across permanent venue installs the world over. Their reputation was built not in a catalog but under real working conditions — touring rigs, tight changeovers, and live television environments where failure simply isn't an option.
Now part of the Harman family of professional brands, Martin continues to develop fixture technology that spans architectural LED, high-output automated luminaires, and pixel-driven video elements. The common thread across every product generation is a commitment to giving lighting designers and production crews dependable tools that translate creative vision into light — show after show, venue after venue.
What Martin Professional Is Known For
- Industry-standard intelligent moving-head fixtures trusted on arena tours and major concert productions
- CMY color mixing, motorized zoom, and precision framing modules for exacting lighting design
- Pixel-mapped LED video strips and tile systems — including the VC-Strip and VC-Grid Creative Series — for dynamic stage and architectural looks
- Exterior-rated fixtures built for permanent install, festivals, and outdoor events with demanding environmental conditions
- Full DMX control integration, including pan/tilt, iris, gobo selection, prism effects, and strobe/pulse capabilities
- A broad catalog that spans theater production, broadcast studios, event production, and arena touring
Frequently Asked Questions
What types of Martin products does LV Guitars carry?
The current inventory focuses on Martin Professional lighting — including the VC-Strip Creative LED video strips, VC-Grid Creative LED video tile packs, and Exterior series fixtures for projection and architectural use. These products serve concert lighting, theater production, event production, broadcast studios, and arena touring applications.
Are Martin fixtures suitable for permanent venue installs as well as touring?
Yes. Martin builds products for both worlds. The Exterior Single Dot and Exterior Image Projection series are engineered for outdoor architectural and permanent-install use, while the VC-Strip and VC-Grid Creative Series work equally well in touring rigs and fixed-installation environments like theaters, clubs, and broadcast stages.
What control protocols do Martin fixtures support?
Most Martin Professional fixtures are designed around DMX control, the industry standard for live and installed lighting. Many products also integrate with Art-Net and other protocols common in modern production and installation workflows, making them compatible with a wide range of lighting consoles and control software.
How do the VC-Strip and VC-Grid Creative Series differ, and which fits my production?
The VC-Strip Creative Series are linear LED video strips available in different pixel-count configurations — such as the 16x1, 8x1, and 4x1 variants — suited for edge lighting, set dressing, and linear pixel-mapped looks. The VC-Grid Creative Series are 8x8 LED video tiles sold in four-packs, designed for building larger video surfaces and matrix-style pixel effects. Strip formats work well for architectural framing and stage borders; grid tiles are the go-to when you need scalable video panels or high-density pixel canvases.
Does Martin Professional lighting require specialized programming knowledge?
Martin fixtures are built to industry standards and are supported by most major lighting consoles and design software, which means experienced LDs and production programmers can integrate them into existing workflows without major retraining. That said, features like CMY color mixing, motorized zoom, framing modules, and pixel mapping do reward operators who invest time in learning the full feature set — there's a lot of creative depth available to those who explore it.