Quick Question--Will It Work

[DarSax]

This actually is a pretty quick question. I'm in charge of designing our blowout Talent Show again this year, only last year I had no idea what I was doing so someone else organized/hooked up the specifics. This year, I'm on my own.

That being said, I don't want to completely @#$% everything up. Can someone do me a favor and tell me if this would work, control wise?

[SteveB]

Yes. it'll work

SB

[DarSax]

Good answer :D. Thanksus!

[zac850]

Yep, looks fine. Just make sure you address everything correctly. Nothings worse then miss-addressed fixtures. Well, a few things are, but not much.

Comes out to 231 DMX channels in the intels alone, so unless you have over 281 dimmers, looks like it will fit into one DMX universe. That being said, I presume you have data for the conventional dimmers out of some other port of the Maxxyz that you didn't draw?

[DarSax]

Actually, conventionals are being run on a different console entirely. We're a high school, our bands kind of aren't the greatest, so I can't depend on any sort of constant time from night to night.

I want the lights to really follow the music. I can do that easily with intels, just have them go through macros, colors strobes, etc. But in conventionals, I want some very big changes--if there's a solo with four base drum hits, I want blinders on each one

That being said, I want to run the conventionals live on another board entirely, have an operator just pressing the bump buttons when necessary. I can't depend on these bands to have constant time from night to night. The Maxxyz isn't the best for that sort of thing, in my experience.

This is of course assuming I can get the Maxxyz, I haven't the slightest idea if its free yet, I was waiting for an affirmation that this would work before getting the quote :O

[Pie4Weebl]

when is the show this year? I've been looking foreward to see what you do with this years since you posted pics of last years.

[soundlight]

Looks like my cousin will be switching to Walt Whitman this winter or at the start of next school year (she's going to Holton Arms right now and not happy with it), so I'll have to tell her and my aunt to go to your show! Looks like you've got a very nice system there! Good luck. (Good luck can be interpreted as holy -crap-you-rented-MAC700-profiles-I-want-to-play-with-some-of-those).

[DarSax]

To Weebl: Yarr, it's not 'till April. But that's good, more time to get my extensive special effects system in place.

I mean....

To soundlight,
Send her over! It's amazing how much these forums show how small the world is.

[highschooltech]

It looks good to me. Make sure you are adressed right or it could turn into a huge mess.

[jonhirsh]

DarSax you have to get vector works or some sort of drafting program.

This is a very standard setup with the opto, just pre-adress on the deck and put a piece of gaff that says what the adress is. Saves time in the end and its more comfertable on the neck. What's more important then a hookup diagram is your plott do you have a drawn plot yet with chanel or fixture numbers? That will help you more in figureing out how to cable.

Also have you thought about power distro yet? Where it comes from, how you will get it there and how much you need.


JH