Recent content by stuart

What functionality does adding the computer give you?

Looking into buying a used smartfade ml, I have looked and looked and im torn between pc and console but at the end of the day i like real buttons to much and dont want the hassle of running 6 midi controller and spending a week + patching midi faders to software. So that has led me to the...

As an actualy electrician in my day job i ran into this issue at a small local theater, it was so bad that i chose to shut off and lock the main disconnect for the entire stage, which they discovered that evening when they called me confused and upset. I explained to them the issue and said...

this is what the fixture looks like, i always like to see what im talking about

hey i just thought i would run this through here first , i have already sent a message to the tech department at american lighting who sells these things but maybe someone here will have an idea.We recently purchased 10 white led par cans for our stage setup, running on a martin xciter...

hmm i will look into resettable push in breakers

sorry its not hooked up, hence the upside down in a big pile of other old stuff, i wanted to use it for an outdoor festival to power up some large par racks, i only have a small dimmer pack currently and im not really willing to buy anything bigger for the amount i will use it, i figured since...

Found this beast in a basement, can anyone tell me what the control tech for this 10 pin cable is. I was hopeing to get a dmx workaround board or someting for it since its a powerhouse at 1200w a channel.

I just finished setting up my new gear rack, eq, gate, comp. and i wanted to take it home and hook it up to my home stereo, i have two Di boxes , and im used to running un balance into balanced, ie, instrument out into the board with an active DI, but what happens if i run it backwards, i want...

hmm you might want to try and isolation transformer, if they make them that big, any decent power conditioner should have some sort of system like that in it. should filter out the EMF noise form your lightrs and dimmers, or alternativlay use your sound on a diffrent circut mabe We once had...

I got called in last year to the local high school my at the time girlfriend attended, she was the assistant director of footloose. they had massive amount of rented equipment, and had it all hooked up wrong ect.. any way they had rented 10 wireless lavier mics....so from the begging i had my...

Yea i go by stu, stuart, whatever, i like them all , stu sounds a little better i think. Thanks for the welcome. I think this will be the first fourm that im a member of and actualy come on a regularly. I was on here for like 3 hours yesterday :) PS: Sorry about the double post thing, i...

So ive been seeing various thing on ppl talking about lagless sound cues, so I thought id add my two cents to it. I did a small production one where i had a limited crew, and my sound guy wasn’t very good, so what i did was i took all the music i needed and ripped it into mp'3s then i got a...

hey i know its too late now , but i just thought id say this. I did a small production one where i had a limited crew, and my sound guy wasent very good, so what i did was i took all the music i needed and ripped it into mp'3s then i got a copy of the script in a word document. I took the...

Hi everyone, my name is stuart, i live in NB Canada, im two years out of high school now, and ive been doing A/V/L tech since grade 7. I love sound systems, and next year im going to audio engenering school, my dream is to one day do concert mixing. and own my own studio too. but im also a...