Recent content by TimOlson

LOL the best grandMa tutorial is grandMa 3d. and, it's free!peace,Tim O

Hey all, I thought someone might like this. I had the Pandoras Box and the grandMa in the studio at my house for a few days prior to the gig so I could spend some time on the setup and really get it under control. I found it to be remarkably simple (once I got through the initial frustration...

unless your console supports effects, that is indeed a way to get stuff to move. most consoles will move things along if you put in fade & delay times in each cue.peace,Tim O

here's some pics from a recent Arabic Music concert. I programmed a grandMa and had about 45 movers + 48 dimmers.peace,Tim O

as long as the LED instrument you get has a mode that allows for 5 channels or less, you're in. some led's allow a very simple 3 channel operation because they only have red, green, and blue led's. some have multiple "modes" like the color kinetics colorblaze - all the way from 3 channels to...

I went to see the last performance of the Monty Python show here in Vegas. on a long run, one would expect to see some kind of farewells. The cast all got theirs, and one of the key characters spent 10 MINUTES with his 3 year old boy on the stage. What really shocked me was not one word of...

first off, one of these lil' testers:Doug Fleenor Design - DMX512 Line Testeraffordable, and worth every penny.there's all sorts of stuff to try, even with no tester-) terminate the offending dimmer.-) change the address and see if the problem moves. if it does there may be an...

Harbour Frieght sells a 6" adjustable c wrench with an extra-wide jaw - I think it goes all the way up to 1". a lot of the 6" wrenches won't open out that far. it's very cheap too - around 4 bucks - and I don't cry when it gets lost or stolen (happens a lot). it has an insulated handle and...

I think you hit it on the head, Techfiend. there is some part of the setup menu that will allow one to choose the number of active....dimmers? I think it's dimmers. I remember once someone had a console set up with 48 dimmers and couldn't figure out why it wouldn't drive a 96ch rack.I...

Hey Alex! I re-read the manual concerning patching, and it didn't cover renaming channels at all. I know how the older express/expression line works, but I'm not so familiar with the newer stuff. so I called ETC tech support and spoke with Tracey. He didn't know the answer right off the bat...

in my experience, the bigger and more system-wide a problem is, the easier it is to find it. you should give yourself a break; sounds like you're in a fixed installatiion and wouldn't expect things to be moved around like they were. in my situation, it's exactly the opposite: all my work is...

It's a bright new day, so I went and looked at the manual. novel concept, eh?I'd be curious to know why ETC chose to do certain things: -) whether you patch in channel or address mode, it's still the same info but with different syntax. this would seem to add potential for more confusion...

I think the grandMa implements this the best - changing the page doesn't release the previous page. you can have as many cuelists playing as there are pages available to fill - on the grandMa it's in the 900 cuelist range.by paging back and forth, the faders jump to the correct place for each...

Fred, you wrote " have everything that's not a dimmer start at channel 1000."I don't get it. Corbettlight stated that his console has 250 channels, but even if it had 2 unverses with 512 chanels each, blowing off all those channels < 1000 will use almost all of 2 universes for nothing and for...

if you have a standard patch disc already, i recommend resetting everything (there is a soft key for that) then reloading your disc. if you don't have a disc, it should only take a few minutes to repatch - it's only 24 dimmers.once you have your patch, subs, and cues in the console, save a...