What is your favorite button on any lighting console?

The blackout button. What else can completely change everything in one fatal push?

Pig or SET

beltsvillecrucib said:

Pig or SET

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Calling button pushes over headset for a HogII starts to confuse the sound department very quickly. It started with all the Pig Releasing and got even worse when we needed to use some comment macros.

I indeed do like the "*" button on the Lightboard M, confuses the hell out of noobs.

Now that i think about it, i think i like the "Exit, Exit, Clear,Clear" function on the avo's

DaveySimps said:

The blind button. For so many reasons. Just don't forget you are in blind when you want to be in live. Not that any of us has done that before.

~Dave

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Ugh.. I hate when I'm adding a cue in blind, like if I'm one cue 100 and the next cue is 101 and I need to add 101.5, so I do it in blind, then hit GO and it goes to 101, since I never hit Live....that always happens on opening nights.....and 9 out of 10 times, Q101 is a blackout!!!

BillESC said:

Room Service button.

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Who would this call? At our college, we dont have catering or anything, but I figure we could use it to annoy the n00bs, call them for food. I might have to do this, have a submaster that triggers a sign somewhere... *evil cackle*

shiben said:

Who would this call? At our college, we dont have catering or anything, but I figure we could use it to annoy the n00bs, call them for food. I might have to do this, have a submaster that triggers a sign somewhere... *evil cackle*

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better yet, make the sign an LED sign to make it noticible and flashy!

Better yet, im sure there is some way with an LED sign to make it say what you want, like "Coke", "Pizza", "Arbys", and so on. Im gonna check with my TD, we might be getting some new LED units and the LD for the first show of the year doesnt use anything that has more than one control channel, so I might be able to make that...

Get a 50' long 40' high LED wall and flash up there what you want.

Hehe, I like that. Too bad a product like that would literally fill our entire theater, with some space to walk around the outside (60'x60'x25' black box, ftw) I guess ill have to settle for a little LED sign...

yet another reason I want to buy this
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soundlight said:

GO button on the Colortran Encore. Without a doubt. KA-CHUNK!

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+1! I was going to post the same thing.
That was my only reservation about upgrading. When you hit the GO button on an Encore, you have to mean it!
Fortunately, the GO button on the Innovator is alright. The software on the other hand...

shiben said:

Hehe, I like that. Too bad a product like that would literally fill our entire theater, with some space to walk around the outside (60'x60'x25' black box, ftw) I guess ill have to settle for a little LED sign...

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But look at the bright side, it would solve your cravings

I installed one of these "Panic Buttons" on my console. It's great to see the reaction of people.

Hey Rschwimmer, Is there a way I can get one of these to work as my go button on my Strand Classic Palette?

hmm probably the "wide" button on the zero 88 frog.


i was once programming the desk, and after my lunch break (i left a new be techie in there to finish off a chase i let him do) when i got back i couldn't for the life of me work out why i had lost half of my 46 channels! i was searching in the dimmer room and everything and i realised it wasn't on wide haha. i was having one of those days which turn into a long night haha

gafftaper said:

I installed one of these "Panic Buttons" on my console. It's great to see the reaction of people.

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Gaff, that's really funny. It actually reminds me of a button on my keyboard (I also play piano in my spare time). It is a Kurzweil, and it has this big bright digital display. Under it are about 6 buttons which correspond to tabs on the screen. One of them is "Panic". What I think it actually does is sets all MIDI values to zero in case you over tweak something and get stuck. I've never had to use it but I have pressed it a few times .

I know my least favorite button, the flip button on AVO boards, I still don't understand it! (Not that I ever use those hippy consoles)

TupeloTechie said:

yet another reason I want to buy this
American DJ Homepage

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I think the Messenger would be a great fixture to have to display messages onto the main curtain during intermission, before and after shows or whenever else the curtain is closed. And when it is open, the message will be displayed on one of the two sub curtains.
I have seen video reviews on the unit before and it is a really great light.

MillburyAuditorium said:

I think the Messenger would be a great fixture to have to display messages onto the main curtain during intermission, before and after shows or whenever else the curtain is closed. And when it is open, the message will be displayed on one of the two sub curtains.
I have seen video reviews on the unit before and it is a really great light.

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Having seen fixtures like this (that use the same LEDs and lensing) in person, I can tell you that with the house lights up, it won't really be seen. It'll also look...tacky, to say the least. That's the other reason you don't see a lot of DJ level fixtures in theatre.