ArthurRiot
Member
I ran into an interesting situation this weekend; I got a late night call Friday to run a RoadHog console on Sat morning for a load in. They had no other info for me at that moment (the ME there got a serious case of the 'don't come in with THAT disease!' that night), but I knew enough about the place that I figured it was probably just programming and patching.
I show up, and sure enough, the Hog is only running 4 movers, and the conventionals are going on another board. Cool. I boot it all up, and the movers are already programmed and patched, with a generic FX pallette available, but no cuelist. So now I assume I'm pretty much here to upload a show disk once the road LD arrives.
Long story short; no, they didn't. My job was to program a few fx for certain songs, then leave for the run op to go through the show. At 11:30AM I found out the first show is at 2PM, NOT 8PM (I was stupid, and assumed, instead of freakin asking. We're not perfect).
After doing programming a certain way, the house ME and I talk on the phone for 3 min, and he informs me that he would have set it up in a dif fashion. I think my way was the most mistake-proof, he disagreed. Made me think; how many different ways do Light Techs set their programming for a mover-only board?
If it were you, and you needed to quick-program a series of fx for say 8 out of 27 numbers in a concert, and it was the only responsibility, how would you set it up for someone else to run? My way is in the next post. What would have been yours?
I show up, and sure enough, the Hog is only running 4 movers, and the conventionals are going on another board. Cool. I boot it all up, and the movers are already programmed and patched, with a generic FX pallette available, but no cuelist. So now I assume I'm pretty much here to upload a show disk once the road LD arrives.
Long story short; no, they didn't. My job was to program a few fx for certain songs, then leave for the run op to go through the show. At 11:30AM I found out the first show is at 2PM, NOT 8PM (I was stupid, and assumed, instead of freakin asking. We're not perfect).
After doing programming a certain way, the house ME and I talk on the phone for 3 min, and he informs me that he would have set it up in a dif fashion. I think my way was the most mistake-proof, he disagreed. Made me think; how many different ways do Light Techs set their programming for a mover-only board?
If it were you, and you needed to quick-program a series of fx for say 8 out of 27 numbers in a concert, and it was the only responsibility, how would you set it up for someone else to run? My way is in the next post. What would have been yours?