Recent content by theatricalmatt

ETC makes an app for calculating the number of cyc lights you need given their height, dimensions of the drop, and throw distance (how far away from the cyc they're rigged). More is always better, of course.I've found that I generally don't like the CS Cycs for lighting up cycs -- many small...

I would check to see that you haven't exceeded the maximum channel in your setup or your maximum parameter count, and that you're not operating in a partition that excludes those channels.

I'm kind of surprised the handles were patentable to begin with. I'm sure outside the field of moving lights there would be plenty of prior art.

Sounds like a job for a 3d printer!

No - the emitters are different, and the arrays of emitters are different on top of that.I generally find the best result is to utilize the built-in gel libraries, but limit the choices to ones that both render equally well. Tgat generally means staying within the Colorsource's gamut

What conflict? There's no conflict!A diagonal cut is mathematically proven to have a longer length than a simple, straightforward vertical cut. This results in more delicious cheese oozing out as you try to eat it. Empirically, sir, you are wrong, wrong, wrong! ;)

I used several in a school setting (north of Boston), though it's been years since I've set foot in that space.Check airflow; bad ventilation means heat gets trapped in the unit, which puts it into overtemp. If you're willing / able to open up the unit, see if the temperature sensor itself...

I'm used to doing cable picks with a clove hitch at the end of line going up to the pin rail (well -- up to a sheave in the grid and down to the pin rail).What you're describing sounds more like a strain relief off of truss, but to each their own.

Do you have a rehearsal or performance video from previous years? That might be the easiest way of all.

How tight are your cues? Dance is often, "Spot One on the woman, Spot Two on the man, stay on 'em til they exit." Occasionally you get into lighting couples as a unit, or passing from one partner to another, or lighting a significant prop or set piece, but that's going ot be unique to that...

I'd push for a mix of the ColorSource V Spots and Fresnels; you get a wonderful array of lighting tools that have a similar color mixing system, which makes swapping fixtures or blending between systems very easy.The Ovation 910FCs are a little long in the tooth. The KL Profiles are quite...

The second silver bit must certainly be used for developing different emoticons! ;) :p

My focus with things falling from height is often not that the object might fall on someone -- which, of course, *everybody* is worried about -- but also that things break and go flying and then strike someone. Twenty feet might seem pretty far, but it'd be easy for a knob or gel clip to break...

I'm not entirely certain what you mean by "move that switch."The ETC Element has (depending on the model) two or three banks of faders, plus a rotary knob that puts them either in channel mode or submaster mode. In channel mode, they're set so that the first fader brings up channel 1, then...

Second the recommendations for Doug Fleenor and Pathway. I love the Luminex Optocore DMX splitters, but they're even pricier than ETC! And FWIW, the latest generation of ETC nodes are the "Response 2" line.