We just had our dance concert yesterday, and ended up with a
bit of a plan shuffle when all was said and done.
ETC was loaning us fixtures to demo for the event, and originally was going to give us enough Colorsource Linears to light our paneled
cyc. They didn't have enough available to give us, so they ended up giving us 7 Colorsource Spot fixtures with
cyc adapters, and 4 Colorsource Linear 1s that we ended up using to light the
wing curtains. We also threw the linears and the colorsources on our projection
screen when
ETC dropped them off to see the difference. Photos will follow later in the week when I have time.
Primary impression- The Linear does a great job lighting
drapes, nice saturated colors and matched nicely with our Colorsource
Par and the Spot fixtures (these were the Deep Blue
array fixtures, as were the Spots). However, when we threw the linears on the white projection
screen next to the spots with the
cyc adapter, there was a big difference. Because the Spot does its color-mixing inside the
fixture, the light that hit the
screen was pretty even and uniform. The Linear looked fine from about 4' above the
fixture on upward, but below that was noticeable striping and inconsistency, and also the output seemed quite a
bit less than the Spots. It was a big enough difference for me to scrap the idea of the linears on the
cyc and engineer a
cyc lighting position so we could use the Spot fixtures with the
cyc adapters.
