What is your favorite button on any lighting console?

[ReiRei]

I would have to agree with the person who said the black out button. I like the black out button, it is my friend. However, every once in a while I look at it and I think, has anyone disabled this button? Maybe I should check... in the middle of a gig. Though I have been tempted I never have.

I really do enjoy the hold and back button on the ETC console at my old high school. It's saved the lives of a few of my MEs and even myself once or twice.

You know what... I like all the button equally..... except for the track button on the etc. I hate that button with a passion and prefer never to use it. Rawr track button... rawr.

[Jeroen]

On any? probably the GO button or perhaps the encoder wheel but does that count for a button...?

On the ETC Smartfade range the CLEAR button, it gives a quick and easy way of clearing outputs on stage to program the next look.

[pacman]

HOME ATTRIB button on the ETC Congo. Puts those pesky wayward movers in their place when they've wandered off & I can't find them.

[MillburyAuditorium]

Right on with the Black Out button :D Although I have used it before, for dance recitals, black outs at the end of dances, fade in when next one starts. Besides that, nothing really : P

[Les]

The ETC Express/ion [Hold] button has served me well, both for accidental 'GO' presses and for when you need to pause a running cue for any reason. I was running a dance show which was very complicated and after next to no rehearsal time, having one finger near the 'Hold' button while running a cue was very useful ("Does the blackout go on this beat, or the beat after that?").

[len]

Originally Posted by BillESC

Room Service button.

+1. Too bad my programming skills are such that it doesn't actually work.

[DaveySimps]

The blind button. For so many reasons. Just don't forget you are in blind when you want to be in live. Not that any of us has done that before.

~Dave

[cprted]

Originally Posted by DaveySimps

The blind button. For so many reasons. Just don't forget you are in blind when you want to be in live. Not that any of us has done that before.

~Dave

Never once happened ...

[MNicolai]

On the ETC Congo Jr., my favorite though minimally used button is the "?" button.

[church]

the "ON" button/switch

LOL