achstechdirector
Active Member
The other day I was setting up a sound and lighting system when our 100ft 3pin DMX cable broke.
I started thinking and said I would use a line off of the snake to send the DMX signal to the lighting.
This just being an assembly in a multipurpose area I used a 8x4 snake and used channel 1 for lighting
One of my assistants was setting up sound and I plugged the snake in
(Snake:channel)
2:1
3:2
4:3
so on
He didn't get the picture and was plugging a mic into channel 1 of the sound board and when he plugged the mic into channel 1 of the snake (lighting) the microphone started making a sound. He screamed for me and asked me to figure out what the problem was. He plugged it in and it started making the sound and I was dumbfounded. Then, suddenly I realized that it was in the lighting channel. I unplugged the mic and ended up not using that particular mic. I haven't tested it yet but I hope the mic still works It was a Shure SM58. What do you think?
I started thinking and said I would use a line off of the snake to send the DMX signal to the lighting.
This just being an assembly in a multipurpose area I used a 8x4 snake and used channel 1 for lighting
One of my assistants was setting up sound and I plugged the snake in
(Snake:channel)
2:1
3:2
4:3
so on
He didn't get the picture and was plugging a mic into channel 1 of the sound board and when he plugged the mic into channel 1 of the snake (lighting) the microphone started making a sound. He screamed for me and asked me to figure out what the problem was. He plugged it in and it started making the sound and I was dumbfounded. Then, suddenly I realized that it was in the lighting channel. I unplugged the mic and ended up not using that particular mic. I haven't tested it yet but I hope the mic still works It was a Shure SM58. What do you think?