I'm just going to throw a simple question out there, do many people still run AMX systems?
I help at a high school that has a Strand CD80 AMX dimmer rack with 48 dimmers. We run an Express 24/48 with a DMX/AMX converter in order to talk to the rack. We've been having control card issues for many years now, but in the past couple years the company that services our rack has been having to special order cards when ours have died. I'm told this is because AMX is a dead technology. I mean, obviously DMX is the more popular standard, otherwise all these consoles and ml's wouldn't be running it.
We've just gotten into ml's in our last two shows (renting them) and for this one I took an extra control line running from the booth to the dimmer rack, disconnected it from the rack, and MacGyver'ed it into a DMX line just for the control of the ml's. If other people are running AMX systems, how do you deal with the whole moving-lights-run-DMX issue?
Personally I'd like to replace our rack with a nice ETC Sensor setup, they've got two down in the middle school (we're not going to talk about it), but I'm wondering what kind of an argument I can make to actually try to get an upgrade to happen? I mean, you know school districts...
I help at a high school that has a Strand CD80 AMX dimmer rack with 48 dimmers. We run an Express 24/48 with a DMX/AMX converter in order to talk to the rack. We've been having control card issues for many years now, but in the past couple years the company that services our rack has been having to special order cards when ours have died. I'm told this is because AMX is a dead technology. I mean, obviously DMX is the more popular standard, otherwise all these consoles and ml's wouldn't be running it.
We've just gotten into ml's in our last two shows (renting them) and for this one I took an extra control line running from the booth to the dimmer rack, disconnected it from the rack, and MacGyver'ed it into a DMX line just for the control of the ml's. If other people are running AMX systems, how do you deal with the whole moving-lights-run-DMX issue?
Personally I'd like to replace our rack with a nice ETC Sensor setup, they've got two down in the middle school (we're not going to talk about it), but I'm wondering what kind of an argument I can make to actually try to get an upgrade to happen? I mean, you know school districts...