Painterspoon
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Hi smart people!
I have $2000-2200 Cdn earmarked for upgrading our current lighting controller. It still works, but it probably won't soon. I have to spend this money by May 15th or it gets clawed back by the Ontario gov. And I have to spend it on lighting console(s).
I currently have a Colortran 24 that uses compact flash. Many times this board has cleared its brains and we've lost shows. It's an oldie, but I like its simplicity and ease of patching with a few basic effects possible liked chases and timed crossfades.
I'm using DMX 5-pin, I have 60 dimmers, the 12 front lights are hard-patched 1-1 (channels 1-12) and 13-60 are on the grid. I don't have any moving heads and don't plan on adding any, and if I'm going to be using LEDs, it's only a few of them, and they will only be on/off, so no dimming. Mostly Par64, ParCans, Scoops, and a few Lekos.
I really need to get kids up on this quickly (which is why I'm reeeeallly leery of software and I prefer manual faders) , and the funding stipulates that I have to buy from a reputable source (can be online, and not a random guy off kijiji).
I've been flip-flopping all over the place. If there is a great board out there that does what I need it to do but is way cheaper, I would buy two of them (as we have our own TV studio that is also running the same console and also having the same clearing issues)
Its big purpose for usage would be musical theatre productions, and typically I need anywhere from 80-100 programmable cues, with ease of fitting cues in between if I need to add. I don't use a lot of effects.
Please help me (especially if you have some leads from Canadian sources)!
Thanks! ~Melissa
I have $2000-2200 Cdn earmarked for upgrading our current lighting controller. It still works, but it probably won't soon. I have to spend this money by May 15th or it gets clawed back by the Ontario gov. And I have to spend it on lighting console(s).
I currently have a Colortran 24 that uses compact flash. Many times this board has cleared its brains and we've lost shows. It's an oldie, but I like its simplicity and ease of patching with a few basic effects possible liked chases and timed crossfades.
I'm using DMX 5-pin, I have 60 dimmers, the 12 front lights are hard-patched 1-1 (channels 1-12) and 13-60 are on the grid. I don't have any moving heads and don't plan on adding any, and if I'm going to be using LEDs, it's only a few of them, and they will only be on/off, so no dimming. Mostly Par64, ParCans, Scoops, and a few Lekos.
I really need to get kids up on this quickly (which is why I'm reeeeallly leery of software and I prefer manual faders) , and the funding stipulates that I have to buy from a reputable source (can be online, and not a random guy off kijiji).
I've been flip-flopping all over the place. If there is a great board out there that does what I need it to do but is way cheaper, I would buy two of them (as we have our own TV studio that is also running the same console and also having the same clearing issues)
Its big purpose for usage would be musical theatre productions, and typically I need anywhere from 80-100 programmable cues, with ease of fitting cues in between if I need to add. I don't use a lot of effects.
Please help me (especially if you have some leads from Canadian sources)!
Thanks! ~Melissa