Recent content by Grimtheatre

Hi All,Noise control question: Working in a smaller theatre space and the LD is using some Gam FilmFX on the box boom positions to create various effects (rain etc.). The issue we're coming across is the amount of noise coming from both the motors on the FX, as well as the film itself moving...

Haha come on down! it's only 52 currently, but i guess warm is relative right? I'm looking for either 8 ETC Source 4 25-50 Zooms or 10 Source 4 50deg.

Yeah, I'm looking into Orlando now, PRG has a site there so maybe i'll give them a call. Problem is it's only 10 lights so yeah... i'm feeling a roadtrip coming on...

This is probably a long shot but no harm in asking: I'm working out of Key West, FL and am trying to find a rental company that will ship to Key West so i don't have to make the 4 hour trek to Miami just to pick up some lights. I've already contacted Stage Equipment & Lighting, as well as...

I'm plugging it into an Expression III. The remote doesn't light up, the base station isn't receiving a signal, it has a brand new battery in. I know the console is working properly because we have a wired RFU currently plugged into it and that's working fine. It's definitely something wrong...

Hey all, The theatre i'm currently working at has an ETC radio rfu like this one: Radio Remote Focus Unit, Expression style, ETC It's been a great tool to use since I'm working as Resident LD/ME so I'm doing most of my own work. Recently the remote has ceased to function and I was...

thanks, i was trying to find this thread earlier and couldn't. much appreciated

I'm starting a new gig as an LD/ME in november so i'm taking the opportunity to pick up some new tools and equipment. I've already got my staples such as c-wrench, lightspeed wrench, multi-tool, flashlight, and screwdriver. I want to pick up a new soldering iron and wire cutters and maybe a...

From a design standpoint it's a quick and easy way to give a general wash to the stage. No you're not going to get the control and versatility that you would from a parnel or S4par with a scroller on it, but there are still ways to effectively use strip lights as top light. Come to think of...

Found this monster while cleaning out our lighting storage. It has shutters, adjustable barrel, a prefocus base, and what appears to be a step lens of some kind. Any clue what it is?

Come to think of it we had just swapped out a Doug Fleenor Opto/Iso with a bad port for the ETC Response before the tech of our second show in the space, about a week before the trackspots started to go. I'll take another look at the response tomorrow. The show currently up is not the one using...

ADD: This is a show that's been repping with another in the same space so we've been loading different disks depending on the show. The plots (in terms of the technobeams and trackspots) are the same so no addresses are being changed. From what i can gather these are relatively older boards, so...

This one has me particularly stumped. I'm working in an older theatre where we have 2 Lightwave Research Trackspots and 1 Technobeam in the air controlled through an ETC Express 250. The DMX situation is a little funky in this theatre. There are 2 in/out boxes backstage, and one at our AP...

It's always been my experience that VLL isn't the best as far as color matching goes. It's never actually given me a good representation of a gel color, particularly if you're putting it in an instrument to try and match with a real gel (the whole additive vs. subtractive color thing). As...

I saw this done about a year ago at the Shaw Festival at Niagra on the lake. I forget the show, but what they actually did was use purples and lavs for their costumes and set and then shot what i believe was in the range of R82 on it which gave a really nice black and white effect