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    Triggering StageTracks w/ QLab

    I found a Reddit thread with someone asking how to do the same thing and saw the response mentioning using OSCulator. I’m guessing you’re trying to make QLab hit keyboard shortcuts to control Stage|Tracks. I’m not sure how you do this in the same machine because the application listening to the...
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    MIDI Heads-Up Display app for Mac

    From what I've read in the manual, it appears it should transmit a new program change message when it changes scene, regardless of what triggered that scene change. I've exploited that in the past on other Yamaha consoles as a way of triggering QLab cues by taking dummy scene changes on the...
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    MIDI Heads-Up Display app for Mac

    Hi ya'll.I'm looking for an app that I can leave open on a mac that acts as a heads-up display for an old Yamaha 01v that I'm operating remotely. I'd like to set it up so as the 01v changes scenes, it outputs a corresponding Program Change message that triggers some lightweight app on my local...
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    Do you own your own COM headset?

    I’ve got my trusty PH88 with me wherever I go. I prefer the vinyl/leatherette earcup to the foam on the CC26. I bought it with a 5-pin male on eBay and soldered a 4-pin F on it with a red boot so I could always easily identify it.
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    EOS firing OSC to Qlab - working, but inconsistently?

    I had the same issue working in a small theatre company several years ago. Running an ETC Ion triggering QLab 3 on a trash can MacPro via OSC. It worked 95% of the time, but occasionally (and randomly) QLab wouldn’t fire. At first we were connecting Cat 6 directly from console to computer, then...
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    Designing your own LCS/ Constellation type system

    A word of caution before going the LCS route and buying cheap Matrix3 frames: Meyer recently pulled down the LCS forum they’d been hosting for years and information about those those systems is otherwise hard to come by. I recently starting working for an org that uses it in multiple locations...
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    Audio Cue Fading Between Device Outputs

    You have a couple options here. First, and the better option, is to create an Aggregate Audio Interface, basically a virtual device that routes to both physical devices in software. macOS has the ability to do this fairly easily from the Audio MIDI Setup application. A quick google search found...
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    Microphones Countryman E6 windscreens

    Are you tying them onto you E6's? I worked in an outdoor venue that used a ton of them and tying the windscreens on with a small length of thread ensured we never lost one.
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    Conductor Monitor and Latency with Digital

    Can you recommend a specific HD-SDI RF Modulator? I’m spec’ing a system for a small theatre that’s adding latecomer monitors in their lobby and I want to give them flexibility to add dressing room/backstage monitors in the future.
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    Microphones Mic elements keep disconnecting from transmitters?

    I've had similar problems with some older Shure bodypacks too. This may not totally solve your problem, but I would mitigate the pulling on the connector by looping the cable down over the pack and using some tape around the pack to hold it in place. This way, if the cable gets tugged on, the...
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    Clear-Com Audio Adapter

    It is a main station, and we use the Stage Announce function to page our backstage. Regardless, the I-Com R is exactly what I’m looking for! Thanks.
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    Clear-Com Audio Adapter

    Hey, I'm working on a production of Spelling Bee right now and I'm having trouble finding the right adapter. Our SM is calling from a Clear-Com 4-channel main station and we're only using three of the channels currently. I would like to dedicate the last channel as an emergency page to the...
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    Velcro or tie line

    I'm camp tie-line, I think it takes less time to unwrap a bunch of cables when I'm laying down a pit and they're easy to replace when they get ratty (or stolen for dressing). That said, when it comes to Velcro, I'd much prefer the thin flat variety that comes on a roll to the ticker varieties...
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    Tie-Line for Storing XLR cables, Glazed or Un-Glazed?

    I've never used glazed tie line, how different are they?
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    What happened to pars?

    I would disagree, in the two spaces I work in, the S4 Par and various LED Pars still make up the bulk of our top light systems. While movers are convenient to focus, they inevitably need to be serviced from time to time, meaning either you need someone on staff who is equipped to handle that or...
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