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Are you sure this is how that works? I was under the impression from ETC's literature and a limited amount of time actually playing around with a 72/144 (max. channels 192) that channel numbers above the second number were accessible only through the keypad. ([Ch] 165 [@] [Full].) If what...

Yeah...sorry about that oversight. Softkeys can be used in macros recorded with the learn key. There's not much I can add anymore to everything else that has been said, but if you want control of bump button 23 again, then you can revisit this thread. No matter how much I think I know about...

Those are pretty much the most important terms. Softkeys are buttons whose functions aren't global, but software-defined depending on what mode the board is in at a given time. The long sequence was just a set of keystrokes that will work on an Express 125 (I am very familiar with the...

Another way to deal with foot noise on floor mics is to use equalization. It does a great deal, although a physical solution such as Foxinabox had might work better. Mackie boards have a "low cut" toggle button at the bottom of the blue equalizer knobs, and we toggle that on when we use floor...

Unfortunately you can't use features that are activated using softkeys (a la Sneak) in a macro on the ETC boards. Rather than a macro, you might think about using a submaster bump button. The keystrokes to do this would be as follows: [Stage] [Chan] 1 [Thru] 36 [@] 40 [Rec] [Sub] 1 [Enter]...

They're in order by date...you have to really dig to get to the old ones.

Our janitors generally leave at around ten, but we often continue past then. I don't understand why everyone is talking like the janitors must be the last people out of the building. As long as a staff member is around to arm the alarm when we leave, everything is cool. Usually a few minutes...

I've done it both ways. I did follow spot for one show where he ran it off the board, but I was also in one where my spotlight was completely self-contained. I much prefer my autonomy, because it keeps bad things like you described from happening. We have one of those old, rickety ladders...

Our fixtures don't often get that kind of care. Their electrics get checked out regularly, but it has been forever since I've seen anyone cleaning the lenses or reflectors. It's probably a good way to enhance optical efficiency, though. The less dust and grime there is to absorb the light...

I recall our tech director mentioning that the electrician said the failing circuits were those on the outside of the bundle. I can tell you for sure that circuits 1-16 serve that pipe, and the failed circuits were 3, 5, and 6, at the opposite end of the pipe from the electrical box and...

It's funny to hear the Australian terms for things. Instead of "earth" we use "ground" here, and there are ground wires running to every instrument in the plot. It is true that in residential electrics, we often don't use any ground. An edison outlet in a home has three holes, but many...

This seems like a good place for a little anecdote that has been floating around our theatre for quite a while. We have six Altman Q-Lites hanging on our electrics that we use as work lights. (They're on whenever anyone is in the theatre.) One day during lunch one of those pipes was at floor...

School has an ETC Express 250. We loves it...although at times it would be nice to have a 48/96 because it's so intuitive. Using the 250, all the cues have to be prerecorded, and it makes on-the-fly lighting rather difficult, especially with only 24 submasters. And in practice, we generally...

Our theatre's entire budget comes from ticket sales and donations of time and money from PALs, a group run (mostly) by parents of the student performers. The department gets minimal funding from the school, which allows us to have crucial autonomy (we probably wouldn't have been able to do...

This show has incredible sentimental value for me: it was really the first show I ever worked on. It has incredible music courtesy Stephen Schwartz. It's not a typical Broadway-style musical; the music is more electronic and in some ways crisper than an orchestra could yield. We had a...