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    ETC Element 40, 500 buying guide

    Ok, ColorSource, seems really basic/minimalist... am I wrong? I really like my express, so I would like to stick with the next evolution of that....Thanks for you guys continued help.
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    ETC Element 40, 500 buying guide

    Hey guys thanks for the response, 1 reason I went with the 500 is I want to somewhat future proof, as in avoid a channel limit down the road.That being said, I a little more about us and our venue, we are a small theatre company, based in a historical building that seats roughly 240. Even...
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    ETC Element 40, 500 buying guide

    Hey guys,I was just wondering what people's thoughts where on an ETC Element 40, 500 lighting board. I am looking to eventually replace, an older ETC express 48/96. As we are looking to use more dmx controlled devices, and LED based lighting fixtures (which can hog channels). This seems like...
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    Design Color mixing suggestions.

    Yea, you are correct. I have about 12 zones, all the lights from the 2 catwalks are 36 degree S4s. I'd like to do Warm+Cools for each zone. There is only about 28 hook ups in the catwalk. I'd like to save about 4-6 of those channels for forest gobos.One thought, I had was just do a Green and...
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    Control/Dimming Altman 200W LED Spectra Cyc Question

    Sure, Make sense. I might just go with the 5 channel mode, as this was something I had considered. That being said, I played around with the personality editor, doesn't seem to hard to set up some attributes as 16 bit. Just for fun, I might try it.
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    Control/Dimming Altman 200W LED Spectra Cyc Question

    Thanks for your quick replay, it's an older board a ETC expression 48/96... is this too old to work in 16bit mode?I know the board can do personalities (granted geared more towards moving fixtures) would something like this help?
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    Control/Dimming Altman 200W LED Spectra Cyc Question

    So the theatre I work at just order some Altman 200w Led Spectra cyc lights, I was hooking them up to the board and testing them out a bit, I put them in the 10 channel mode, i.e RrBbGwAaMm. one thing I notice if I bring the up the second color channels (finer tuning channels) so the rgb part in...
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    Design Color mixing suggestions.

    So, I am working on a production of Shrek, and as usual there is a limited number of fixtures at my disposal. In order to give the show some of the necessary colors it needs, like red, blue, green (that is a big one), purple, I am trying to rely on color mixing of complementary colors to make...
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    Almost, Maine Lighting Advice (And NO it's not about the Aurora Borealis)

    First of THANKS for replying.I have been considering hooking up the old Altmans, and I just might, I am sometimes reluctant, because they are basically a 36 degree , and much much dimmer, so using them to add a little warm color might be good. I can't decide if I should swap out my S4s dark...
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    Almost, Maine Lighting Advice (And NO it's not about the Aurora Borealis)

    I know there have been about a dozen post regarding the Aurora Borealis effect for "Almost, Maine", however rest assured my questions has little do with what. (as I using a projector)I am working in a older historical building, that really doesn't have much for lights, (working on changing...
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    Control/Dimming DMX converter for ETA Model 1226

    Hey, guys real simple, I was told that should be possible to get some older ETA Model 1758 dimmers to talk to DMX through converters, but I haven't really found any information about dimmers to know what kind of converter to look for. I've found DMX-lators, but again I really don't which ones...
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    VPT 7 and ETC Express 48/96

    I'm guessing this can sit on the PC and listen to MIDI inputs? Is there any hardware anyone would recommend?
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    VPT 7 and ETC Express 48/96

    Not sure if this is the right spot for this.But I am looking to add some projection to an upcoming production of wizard of OZ, where on a budget so I'm looking to use VPT 7 ( a free projection program), it appears to use MIDI as a form of triggering, and I believe the ETC express 48/96, I am...
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    Control/Dimming What is a fair price for a ETC Express 48/96?

    A sister community theatre group is offering to sell us their ETC Express 48/96, they are currently lend it to us and I think its an upgrade considering the ShowXpress system we had, they said to just Google how much it was going for used. I found one on eBay for about 1,700, but I thought I...
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    Suggested reading material

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but looking through the table of contents, the Harry Box books looks more like the basics, more technical, were as the shelly assumes you know most of the basics, and focus more on the skills for the Job and Design.
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