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    Retrofitting Theatre Lighting Gear

    We have a Philips Pallete Strand Board. We'd like to greatly improve our lighting setup -- a 2 to 10x improvement what we have at the current moment. Renting leaves us wishing we could do more still.One of my main questions is this: is our budget enough to scale up to LED's? Would the LED's in...
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    Retrofitting Theatre Lighting Gear

    Thank you for this advice. We put on 2 dramas, a musical, and about 20 concerts.We've attempted to keep a rep plot, but with each individual show needing a unique setup, it's been a challenge.As we move ahead, I'll continue to ask these questions.
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    Retrofitting Theatre Lighting Gear

    Hi Controlbooth,I wanted to pose this situation to you experts. Let's say you've been given around $15,000-25,000 to retrofit a lighting setup at a high school. What would you buy? What would you avoid?Our school has been using old Lekos and Strand PARs for the past decade or so. We have a...
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    Design Help with Musical Lighting Design

    Thank you very much!!!
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    Design Help with Musical Lighting Design

    Thanks!Unrelated: paying for the plot is not something that I will be doing anymore.
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    Design Help with Musical Lighting Design

    Thank you very much for the advice!
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    Design Help with Musical Lighting Design

    Also: a fixture list as to what our high school has. Renting is always an option -- anything that isn't too crazy is an option for the theatre company. Thanks in advance!I could offer payment for this plot if anyone is interested in contracting this work.Thanks.
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    Design Help with Musical Lighting Design

    Hi all -I'm a freshman in High School, and I've been assigned as chief of lights for the big spring production of the theatre company: The Scarlet Pimpernel.While I was on lights crew during the fall, the previous lights chief didn't do a masterful job of teaching everything -- and so far...
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