Common ML consoles

[Anonymous067]

What is a "list" of the "most common" lighting consoles. Higher end, moving light consoles. I know the HOG boards...and thats...about it. I'm looking to rent for a large event in the years to come...

The show is something along the lines of a rock concert!

[soundman]

I would rent what ever you are most comfortable programing. But the list you asked would be as follows:
MA lighting - Grand MA
Martin - Maxxyzs
Chamsys - Magic Q
Compulite- Vector
PRG- Vertuoso

[Footer]

I would rent what ever you are most comfortable programing. But the list you asked would be as follows:
MA lighting - Grand MA
Martin - Maxxyzs
Chamsys - Magic Q
Compulite- Vector
PRG- Vertuoso

I would throw Jands Vista in their and of course Hog II and Hog III.

More important I would rent what the shop can support. If they don't have a guy you can ask questions to, don't rent that.

Also keep in mind ALL of these consoles are programmer based consoles. It is a totally different world from your standard theatrical console and will take some serious getting used to. You have to forget a lot of what you know about how to record and update a cue in order to use these consoles.

[Morpheus]

I would throw Jands Vista in their and of course Hog II and Hog III.

More important I would rent what the shop can support. If they don't have a guy you can ask questions to, don't rent that.

Also keep in mind ALL of these consoles are programmer based consoles. It is a totally different world from your standard theatrical console and will take some serious getting used to. You have to forget a lot of what you know about how to record and update a cue in order to use these consoles.

I used a Hog 1000 over the summer, I thought it was a pretty good board.

Although, yea, programming was a lot more complicated (though I didn't do much programming)

[fx120]

Don't forget the Avo Pearl, next to the Hog line it's probably one of the most prevalent..

[Anvilx]

The strand 520 is decent board.

[derekleffew]

What is a "list" of the "most common" lighting consoles. Higher end, moving light consoles. ...

See the threads:
Most popular Touring Lighting Console?-2007
Most Popular Touring Console-2008 Edition
Most Popular Touring Console-2009.

Definitely "higher end," but I realize "Most Popular" may be a misnomer. The most common may well be HogII or Pearl. The best-selling lighting console of all time? ETC Express, with >14,000 sold. Just heard somewhere yesterday that over 600 gMA2 consoles have shipped.

[soundman]

Just heard somewhere yesterday that over 600 gMA2 consoles have shipped.

Too bad version 2 software hasn't shipped yet...

ZING

[SteveB]

Definitely "higher end," but I realize "Most Popular" may be a misnomer. The most common may well be HogII or Pearl. The best-selling lighting console of all time? ETC Express, with >14,000 sold. Just heard somewhere yesterday that over 600 gMA2 consoles have shipped.

I had heard 10,000 Express's, but that was a few years back and I'm blown away by 14,000. I also heard recently that ETC has sold roughly 2,000 Ion's.

In retrospect, I recall many, many years ago a Theater Crafts or LD article about console development and a comment from Strand about the $35,000 price tag of a Light Palette - late 80's mind you and how they hoped to sell 300 a year. Doubt that happened.

Still, 600 gMA2's is a lot of consoles for that type.

[Axislights]

600 isn't bad considering the economy and the price tag. Also most people are perfectly happy with their series 1.

[kiwitechgirl]

The strand 520 is decent board.

While I have spent a lot of the past ten years programming a Strand 500-series board and love them, it's not really suitable for what the OP is asking. I'd never use one to light a rock concert - while you can program moving lights for a theatre situation reasonably easily, it isn't flexible enough to allow on-the-fly creation of looks - busking moving lights on it is very difficult.