Recent content by BrentSmith

Have you tired dissecting a 'good" barrel and 'bad' side by side? If the problem is indeed in the barrel, there should be some visible difference between them.

Steve and Sean, I posted that thread on the EOS forum in hopes that I could get some other people to chime in about addressing "addresses", but it totally fell flat. As if I'm the only one ringing out conventional hangs these days. I totally love these boards in all other aspects. I came up...

I realize that this subject has really been beaten. I am basically ambivalent. On one hand when I have a bad service experience, I tell as many people as I can, (it is a fundamental principle of a free market.) On the other, I certainly have Posted/Emailed things that I wish I could take...

Just about the only way to to project a stained glass image is to have your pattern and colors in the gobo slot where the light is designed to be focused. That would mean colored glass and expensive. Multi color gels rarely work with more than two or maybe three colors. Any more and you'll...

If you are trying to avoid glare and light leaks, then yes, you probably need tophats. But if, as you said, you really need color extenders, and you need to know what size, think about this: I have heard that of fixed degree S4's, the 36's (and probably 6x9's) are most likely to burn gel...

I always coil cable clockwise bacause the vast majority of stage cable has the right hand turn in the copper. When you do this a certain number of right hand twists are added to your the coil (I guess about a half twist per loop.) In this direction, the twists in the copper tighten slightly...