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    Continuous rotate and shake on WholeHog II

    I was wondering if anyone knew how to enable continuous gobo rotation or shake on a Mac 2000 using a wholehog 2. I managed to suffice at my event by setting gobo rotation position to the sine of x and that kept it rotating back and forth roughly but is there a built in way to do this.
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    Tracking Consoles

    I have a lot of experience with the old ETC boards but the idea of tracking throws me off. Could someone explain to me what exactly tracking is. Every time I use a board like to color palette I throw it in cue only mode. However, I am going to be using a Hog 2 for an event I'm hosting and I need...
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    record a show

    I am trying to record different parts of a program on my laptop to do so I will need some an output from the board. I have an forth inch to eighth inch adapter so um looking on how to get a forth inch line there. I have two possible method and I don't know too much about sound so let me know...
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    Sound Equipment

    One of our rental facilities has a pretty high tech sound system. Now I am familiar with the power amps and the mixer and all that but the rest of the sound system is hard wired into the building. Under the board there is a graphic equalizer which I could recognize, a bunch of other stuff I...
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    Do you need extra hardware for the PA out or program in functions of this intercom

    Does the Telex MS-2002 require extra hardware to output to the PA system or is it something built in. I couldnt really understand it in the manual
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    Are Hazers bad for actors?

    I was talking with one of the theatre supervisors at my school and when I recommended to use a hazer in our show they said that hazers are bad for the actors voice and even though its supposed to stay high up it will cause the actors not to sing well. I've never used a hazer before. Is this...
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    Telex to clearcom

    Is there any cheap way to conntact a single channel Clearcom system to a dual channel Telex audio com system.
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    AC Outlets on electric

    Is there away to find out what unpatched items are hooked up to shownet
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    AC Outlets on electric

    Ok o will check that now another similar question on the dimmer rack there is one labeled stair. Could it be that the house light system are on dimmer too just not patched to the board. Is that unusual
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    AC Outlets on electric

    Also I didn't finish reading the last post. How would I find the list of unpatched modules I.e non dims. Also I'm interested in getting factory drawing but how would he be able to help me
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    AC Outlets on electric

    We do have work lights labeled as you specified but these are labeled ac 1 and ac 2etc. And these are also labeled in our front of house electrics.
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    AC Outlets on electric

    On the electric at our rental facility. On their electrics they have around 4 ac edison outlets. However we don't know where the switch is for them. Now I know the strand board can control non-dims so should I look there for something like that or would there be a switch somewhere. Where should...
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    Talkin' trash & flash

    What are some cool flash n' trash effects that you can do with moving lights
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    Amplifying an orchestra

    Ya I think I get it though most instruments are loud enough not to be amplified. But lets say you had an electric guitar or electric bass these already have an amp would you run these directly to your sound system or would you just leave them in the amp. and if you have hanging mics on stage...
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    Amplifying an orchestra

    I'm a lighting person but I was curious about the proper way to amplify an orchestra. This isn't for any show specifically. So It can range from miking electric instruments (i.e electric bass, guitars) to woodwinds and drums or anything. i just wanted to know what the proper way of doing it is...
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