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[Monty]

I'm Monty. Over the past few weeks I've been researching DMX and CB keeps coming up in my Google searches. What a great place and thanks so much to the veteran contributors!... I love communities such as this!

Generically, I've been freelancing audio,video and lighting productions for almost ten years and finally put freelancing down to take a salary job at a large venue. I thought I knew a bit about lighting until I took this new job on and wow do I have new learning curve to straighten out.

I'm wondering if anyone has any foundation DMX reading recommendations right off the bat?... Besides typical wiki information. I know there are some respected authors of books, blogs and articles here at the forums... I'm not sure who's who yet though. If you'd like to promote something to me DMX related or know who the 'DMX Cats' are so I can follow them, I'm all ears.

Thanks again to veteran contributors/posters!
Cheers
-Monty

[derekleffew]

Welcome to the booth, Monty.

... I know there are some respected authors of books, blogs and articles here at the forums... I'm not sure who's who yet though. If you'd like to promote something to me DMX related or know who the 'DMX Cats' are so I can follow them, I'm all ears.

Among others...
STEVETERRY invented it :

Steve Terry
--Chair, USITT Dimmer Standards Committee (authors of the 1986 and 1990 DMX512 standards)
--Founding Co-Chair, ESTA Control Protocols Working Group (authors of ANSI E.11-2004 and E1.11-2008, USITT DMX-512A standard)

jfleenor, the daughter of Doug "Dr. DMX" Fleenor, is a regular here. DFD's articles: Doug Fleenor Design - DMX Information .

pathsupport and pathway, both of Pathway Connectivity, know a thing or two as well. PCI's Reference Center page: Pathway Connectivity Inc. - Resource Center .

sblair (Scott Blair) is currently working on "the next steps" beyond DMX and runs E1.20 RDM (Remote Device Management) Protocol Forums - Powered by vBulletin .

JohnHuntington wrote a little book called Control Systems for Live Entertainment that has some information about DMX, as well as other handy protocol s. - John Huntington's Blog


For more, although non-free, reading, see the PLASA/ANSI standards page: TSP - Published Documents - About TSP Documents, Published Documents, Public Review Documents, Procedural Documents . Nothing like going direct to the source. Also there's the book Practical DMX by Nick Mobsby.


That should be enough to get you started. Once you've digested all those, come back and we'll give you some more.

[Monty]

My eagerness has been tamed. Thanks so much for your time and detailed reply.

Cheers Derek!