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A great resource is churchstagedesignideas.com. One idea I've used from there is one with corrugated white plastic -- the stuff that's sold for roofing as a translucent alternative to the tin stuff. You can arrange those panels in virtually any configuration you like and hit them from behind...

My experience with RGB LED fixtures is they do the green up through red range pretty well, but not the amber range (and yellow and orange and such). Since amber is a basic range I'd want to be able to cover, I'd use at least RGBA units for the colorwashes. There are also AW units (and perhaps...

I used a variation on that equation just the other day. It's simple trigonometry.

A Comet would be a good inexpensive choice for a quartz spot. The local high school where I frequently design has one.Other quartz spots to check out are the Lycian Midget and Clubspot.In the world of arc spots, check out the Lycian Super Arc.Not very familiar with the Strong offerings...

Why wouldn't we? It's a nice enough logo. :)

I have two inadvertent black holes on my stage at church, each about a foot wide. My pastor finds one of them regularly and the other less often. There's also a supermassive black hole right in front of the stage, and he always goes there to pray at the end of his sermon. If there's a black...

I've been trying to find a local source for Luma-Suck, but so far I haven't found one.

Interesting idea. The Clear-com bus is line-level unbalanced audio (I think it's about -10, while RTS is closer to +4). For a computer connection, what you would probably want is called a duplex hybrid circuit, to convert the two-wire bidirectional audio on the bus to four-wire unidirectional...

Well yes, but I was thinking about the data. I could see, for stereo uses, using sum-and-difference technique in the data to encode and reconstruct Left and Right, under the presumption they're related, that most of the information would be common to both channels. If the two channels were...

That was one of my first thoughts. I'm curious, is is sum-and-difference stereo like we use in stereo FM, or is it two discrete full-bandwidth channels? I had thought of using AES for interconnection between two digital consoles on a show I'm working on now, to send two unrelated channels from...

All the more reason to get a consult-design type on board. You need to develop a long-term master plan, and a way to achieve it in stages, to get from nothing to part-of-everything to everything in a way that maximizes operability in the interim while minimizing waste. If used equipment is an...

I love the HX-5. It's an excellent tool, but like Brad said, it's not necessarily the right tool. Shooting from the hip, and without drawing anything up, I would guess it might be a decent fit to the room -- meaning, for me at least, it's worth modeling through Ease or some such to see if it...

Old thread, but since the Teatronics guy is here, I've got a quick question. (Feel free to break this off into its own thread if you like) I have two original Genesis packs (with the T-mux cards) at my church. Is there a source for the Comstar cards (and are they compatible with the original...

Or used Super Troupers in a space the size of a shoebox. :)

There are some white-mixing LEDs on the market; American DJ, I think, makes one. I haven't seen any of them in action, though there's a small church nearby that has them (I helped on their audio install). I don't know that I'd trust them for theatre fronts. Maybe rock-and-roll, where frontlight...