CSCTech
Active Member
Hello, I am new to this forum, posted here and there.
Anyways,
Our venue has only conventional lighting as of now, looking to slowly expand in the future, anyways, we have a full Colortran setup (Woohoo! ), Personally I have not seen anything bad with Colortran fixtures.
So, we have 16 5/50 Ellipsoidals as FOH spots. (Yay fixed FOH bar with no catwalk..) 10 Theatre Fresnels, 7 Mini Ellipses, and 4 striplights (?) that have no name on them and we are not sure if theya re Colortran or not, they are 6 channels each, each controls two lights inside it. We swap out the gels for different needs, useally used for color mixing.
And then we have 4 Far Cycs.
We do not have a Cyclorama. We use these lights mainly as a flood light for front half of the stage and then for general lighting of the back half of the stage. (We don't useally use the back half as far as performance space goes except for concerts.) To compensate for their wide spread of light theya re tilted a bit. They work great for large spread color mixing, they are 3 channels. There are 3 halogen tubes in each one, so we can put in gels for RGB color.
Anyways, has anyone else heard of these lights being used for above stage lighting instead of Cyc lighting?
We do have an extra batton on a fly, it is the farthest back except for the rear traveler, so I was thinking maybe we used to have a Cyc, but it was damaged or something and removed.
What is a Cyc anyways? Is it some special type of fabric?
Could one be homemade? How much is a real one?
I do not really know how we would connect the lights to dimmers if they were on the ground anyways? As there is no connections on stage level.
Or how do you position lighting for Cycs? I heard the lights go on the ground.
Or would we keep them on the rear electric?
Sorry! I know nothing about Cycs.
Anyways,
Our venue has only conventional lighting as of now, looking to slowly expand in the future, anyways, we have a full Colortran setup (Woohoo! ), Personally I have not seen anything bad with Colortran fixtures.
So, we have 16 5/50 Ellipsoidals as FOH spots. (Yay fixed FOH bar with no catwalk..) 10 Theatre Fresnels, 7 Mini Ellipses, and 4 striplights (?) that have no name on them and we are not sure if theya re Colortran or not, they are 6 channels each, each controls two lights inside it. We swap out the gels for different needs, useally used for color mixing.
And then we have 4 Far Cycs.
We do not have a Cyclorama. We use these lights mainly as a flood light for front half of the stage and then for general lighting of the back half of the stage. (We don't useally use the back half as far as performance space goes except for concerts.) To compensate for their wide spread of light theya re tilted a bit. They work great for large spread color mixing, they are 3 channels. There are 3 halogen tubes in each one, so we can put in gels for RGB color.
Anyways, has anyone else heard of these lights being used for above stage lighting instead of Cyc lighting?
We do have an extra batton on a fly, it is the farthest back except for the rear traveler, so I was thinking maybe we used to have a Cyc, but it was damaged or something and removed.
What is a Cyc anyways? Is it some special type of fabric?
Could one be homemade? How much is a real one?
I do not really know how we would connect the lights to dimmers if they were on the ground anyways? As there is no connections on stage level.
Or how do you position lighting for Cycs? I heard the lights go on the ground.
Or would we keep them on the rear electric?
Sorry! I know nothing about Cycs.