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So as shown in the pictures i have a little bit of an issue when it comes to shadows. i have been trying for about a week now to light this set with out shadows casted on the walls and shadows on actors faces. Mostly what i have used Are Par64 and Lekos using combination of my catwalk electrics...

I do lighting for plays, events, and school band festivals in a theatre with two cat walks. Most of my lights are on second catwalk and almost always- unless Im lighting the orchestra pit- ambient light spills from the lights onto the front of the first cat walk. How can i get rid of this? The...

Could you define what you mean by rig or lab. Do you mean any dmx to usb or FireWire or the nomad.

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Awesome thanks guys so much for the info! It really helps thank you.

SO i have been trying to get my element board to work with even just mirroring. How are you guys/gals making this work? Im working with a macbook with the nomad software, is there some sort of configuration I'm not getting here or am i using a wrong cable or something. I tried setting up the...

I have been reading up on different usb-dmx control interfaces and "pucks." However i have not come across any information depicting weather or not i can or cant use different control software. I would assume that some that share the same name as the software included would be for that software...

That's a good question I'd like to know as well

I'm looking to run some dmx cable up to my cat walks in my theatre but I don't know if I should trust my instaled lines. They are audio lines but I know you can use regular Mic cables in a pinch.Also I here not using dmx rated lines can damage something but what does it damage. The lights...

i need to know weather or not i can wire 12 or 6 leds in series or in parallel on a 9v battery these are my leds im using please let me know if i can or what resistor i should use or can i get away with using the leds with out resistors in series its for a prop im designing.mi will xpost to...

i need to know weather or not i can wire 12 or 6 leds in series or in parallel on a 9v battery these are my leds im using please let me know if i can or what resistor i should use or can i get away with using the leds with out resistors in series its for a prop im designing.mi will xpost to...

Hello, I'm working a gig here in a couple days For a band and I would like to know peoples opinion on how I should do my lighting. For the most part I'm using standard conventional lights and a couple leds. I have works with light boards where I have specific banks of scenes presets. On a etc...

Awesome guys. Thanks for the info! After reading I figured out the mode on the light didn't match up to the patch nor the dmx starting address lined up. Thanks for the responses!

Thanks guys for the help i really appreciate it! And @greatpopcorn thank you for the analogy I loved it!

I am a greenhorn in this area so please bare with my inexperience. two questionWhen i set a lights DMX address does it need to correspond to the beginning address or the channel on the board. I attached a pic to add a visual. for light 102 would i need to set the DMX address on the light to...