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Hi, I work at a highschool and I use an element 2 board. It’s often that after around 45min-1 hour the front stage lights just turn off completely only leaving cyc lights.Originally we (me and the other lights person) thought it only occurred when using a fader set for all the lights on the...

Hello!I've been studying for ETCP for a few months now and am planning to take the test in just over a week.I have been absolutely haunted by one question that I cannot seem to wrap my mind around and keep grtting lost in. I was hoping someone could help explain to me how to solve this. I'm...

First time working with LED tape/dmx decoders. We open in less than two weeks, Q2Q in a week, open 4/12.I’m an amateur lighting designer lighting a musical at a high school and teaching the kids what I can. The set is a series of arches with LED tape outlining/lighting them. I’ve hit a snag...

Our theater has a ~40' straight Cyclorama in the back and for our next production, I'd like to have it be flat. Problem is, everyone that knew how left a while ago, and I was wondering if you guys could help.We have a pipe in the shop, schedule 40 1 1/2" diameter and all the connectors for it...

Hello fellow friends. If you're looking for a great laugh on a Friday continue to read this. OK so I'm completely(as of late November) to the technical aspect of the theater. I've been training on an Ion Classic while we also have a Strand Neo(only first used today by yours truly). Over the past...

Hi, I have a Sumger DM-RGB400 (Amazon.com) and a USB to DMX Interface Adapter RS485 Converter (Amazon.com)I'm looking to connect it to my computer and run lighting software. I'm trying to use FreeStyler but willing to use another lighting software such as ONYX. My issue is setting up...

I have around 8 Telex BP-1002’s that all have the same problem. For every one of the belt packs the talk button does not work. When pressed, the LED does not light and no sound is picked up by the mics. I know it is the packs themselves that are dysfunctional as we have around 8 working ones...

Hi all, I’m looking to rig a 60’ truss supported by 4 chain motors. The company I’m working with is looking to buy, not rent. I’ve never purchased rigging equipment and so wanted to reach out and see where I should look for truss, and what your suggestions are for which chain motors are the best...

First, a little backstory. I am in a pretty unique predicament: I got hired as a High School theater technician at the beginning of this school year. This school year started in distance learning and it looks like it's going to end that way too. Good news is I have done okay in terms of teaching...

Hey folks!I’ve got kind of a time sensitive question for anybody running oscRFR with their Eos device: our ancient touchscreen monitor has decided that the day of a tech rehearsal for a show tomorrow is a great time to kick the bucket, so I’m now stuck trying to busk on an IonXE with a mouse...

Hi there,First time post.Recently a Canon XL2 fell into my hands. It works fine, I've learnt the manual and done a fair bit of research.I'd like to record to an external device without the use of MiniDv Tapes (though, I do have these). I've read across multiple sources that the best thing...

Hello everyone, I recently did an installation for a small venue where I ran Cat 5 cables and terminated it on either end with Neutrik eathercon panel mounts. In the center of the room, I took the two cable feeds and soldered them together with another jumper cable to make a central patch port...

Hello everyone, thanks in advance for any help.I'm in charge of lighting for my high school theater, and we're putting on a show that would ideally have 12 specials.This shouldn't be a problem, as they are marked out on the stage, except that our theater has a large truss that most lights...

The fixture library on my console doesn't play nicely with my ETC D60s, or with the ColorSource Cyc fixtures I'm demo'ing this week. I specifically have issues with matching gel colors using the console's UI. I typically get around this by punching my desired color into the ETC Photometrics App...

Ok so I'm trying to get a guy by doing some lighting for him. The catch? It's film lighting, something I've never had experience with before. I have four Altman 3.5qs, one B&M Fresnel, a Strong Trouperette II follow spot, two pars, a four pot dimmer, controller, and no gel nor stands. What do I...

Hello, I have an old Strand GSX 64000 (golf ball spectacular) i have tried for a few days now to figure out why it wont save to the floppy disk anymore, i have tried replacing the drive with another and to no avail. I was wondering if any of you have had similar issues or if anyone knows what...

Hi all. I recently bought a new set of wireless headsets for our theatre, and they had the tag 'threaded' on them. Unfortunately they arrived and only had the threads, but nothing to screw onto. We are using Sennheiser G3 transmitters, which have the same female threaded end. Is there any way to...

In the upcoming month, we are purchasing 6 additional microphones (AudioTechnica 3000s). What is the best rack i can get for these that has locking functionality? It needs to be big enough to hold the 6 wireless receivers and a rack drawer for storing the transmitters and other miscellaneous...

Our theater has an ETC light board and we have 2 moving light instruments (GLP Impression Spot One). One of these instruments is completely non responsive to anything the board tells it to do, and the second will move change gobos etc. but NOT focus or zoom.I am trying to discern if we...

I volunteer at the local high school teaching tech to the kids and helping with everything technical during the productions.We recently got a new cabinet for equipment and I noticed that all of the other sound cabinets in the school are all keyed alike even though they have come from different...