Recent content by GregM

When it comes to cleaning the optics of movers (dichroic's, lenses, glass gobos) what is everyone's preferred weapon of choice?

I'm just sick of working with Chinese crap, if I'm being honest. Lol

Gotcha. Yeah sorry, haven't worked with a scroller in years. They started getting phased out when I got into lighting.

Correct me if I'm wrong because I've never seen them before, but are the gel strings kind of the same concept as scroller gels? And thank you for that bit of information.

I should add that if he wants to make this jump he needs to have a budget of around 80-90k. A little cushion never hurts. But on the flip side there are a lot of other lighting system I could build for him with LEDs. I'm just looking at the used rig because it's a good start for more or less...

http://www.solarisnetwork.com/used/120k-lighting-rig/33078This is what I was looking at. He has a few lekos for specials and I was considering used movers. Along the lines of Mac 700-2k range or VL 2k-3k range. There's some pretty decent equipment on Solaris network and I'm a sucker for Vari...

The entire rig, everything included is $65k. I guess it's a 6-1 half dozen to the other type thing. I would shoot for a hybrid between 120k and movers. Like 10 spot movers and either ACL bars or sharpies.

I'm advising my buddy who owns a small production company on lighting and 120k rigs came up. Are they still relevant? Granted I advised adding movers to the rig as well. But we're talking for 40x40 roof systems or the occasional small to medium sized venue. His lighting inventory is incredibly...