Recent content by jgaffney7643

I love their control devices, but I'm not wild about the dimmers. I was using an old-ish one on a road show in October, an -MX I believe, we bought it second hand, and upon plugging it in, it arced and blew up in my face. I may be biased, but I wouldn't buy another one.

Greetings! I'm having this bizarre problem that materialized out of nowhere this afternoon. When I try to patch anything in MagicQ, I get a message saying "Could not load extra personality." Doesn't matter if I'm trying to patch a conventional dimmer or a moving light. This is not...

I guess my question then is where can I get the DMX interface? I checked the ET website but they discontinued them.

I downloaded Horizon a couple of days ago and have since fallen in love with it, but after reading some of the other threads I have a couple of questions. Question 1: According to their website, Horizon has been long-since discontinued. I read the license agreement that came with the...

That's justification enough for me. Thanks for your reply.

First, thank you SO much to all of you who have responded so far, your help is invaluable in this venture.If my last post about the carpenter seemed terse, I apologize, I just phrased it poorly.For bars that are never going to be moved is it really necessary to hire a rigger? I mean the bar...

The guy we have builds the cabins the kids live in. I should stipulate that these are bars that will never move, they will be secured into the ceiling of the space. Last summer while hanging lights on the one we have my ladder went out and I hung on the bar. I'm confident in his abilities.

I'm hoping everything we need to make the system work will be around $5k. As I said we are planning a major refit of the sound system, and that is always a very expensive affair when you factor in that we are replacing all of our microphones with new wireless models.The stage is a permanent...

To answer a couple of your questions, we have a licensed and highly experienced electrician on retainer, so getting power where we need it is no problem at all. Additionally, we have a top-notch carpenter on staff to put up bars for us - I'm going stationary bars as opposed to travelers because...

My very first post! My background: I've been a techie since I was 12. My principle experience has been basic electrical work with ETC instruments, and design on ETC digital boards, though I designed for 3 years on an old(er than me) Strand analog board. As I was always handed a complete...