Busking like a Boss

[Amiers]

So I just got to go see the Carson and Barnes circus and the board OP was busking like a pro on and old avolite that looked like it had a roladex on the left side of the desk under the subs. I wish I would of gotten a video of it because it looked pretty awesome. Can anyone tell me what Avolite board it was?

 

[Footer]

That is most likely an Avo Pearl, though other Avo desks have the roller. The roller allows you to label up multiple pages of playbacks and easily switch between them.

 

[Amiers]

Does the roller also switch the pages or do you roll then page # and go?

 

[Footer]

Does the roller also switch the pages or do you roll then page # and go?

It switches the pages, no key strokes needed. I want to say the roller has 6 positions per playback.

 

[JCarroll]

Depending on the model, the Pearl Expert has 10 playbacks on each of the two rollers, and 10 pages, A-J on each of the rollers themselves.
Pearl Expert Titan

Pearl Expert

Pearl 2004

Then there's the tiger

 

[techieman33]

It switches the pages, no key strokes needed. I want to say the roller has 6 positions per playback.

It think depends on the model. The expert I have at work has 10 positions per playback. The regular pearls have 16 playbacks, the expert has 20 split into 2 separate rollers of 10 each. The expert also has 3 pages of playbacks, for a total of 600 total playbacks. The expert with the titan software also lets you turn the channel faders into playbacks making another 240 playbacks possible.

 

[bishopthomas]

I think it's so funny the number of people here on CB that even know what a Pearl is. They're not great for theatre gigs but busking is THE reason people buy them. I have a Tiger and am on a gig with it right now. On the Pearl series (including the Tiger) the Rolacue is above the playbacks and below the channel handles. Yep, A-J on the rollers, and there are 3 pages of those. The Pearl 200X has 15 playbacks, the Tiger has 10, the Expert has 20 (on two sets of rollers). I don't have the Titan software on mine but being able to use any fader as a playback is HUGE. Good job, Avo.

 

[JCarroll]

Production house here... we have a pearl expert in house and I rarely see many others that use them. I'm personally moving onto our MA2 onPC over the pearl. Titan makes things on the board so much better, the fixtures and effects are all sorted out in folders for one, and it tends to run a little faster. Any fader as a playback... really beneficial sometimes.

 

[techieman33]

Production house here... we have a pearl expert in house and I rarely see many others that use them. I'm personally moving onto our MA2 onPC over the pearl. Titan makes things on the board so much better, the fixtures and effects are all sorted out in folders for one, and it tends to run a little faster. Any fader as a playback... really beneficial sometimes.

I see a few come through every year. We see a lot of smaller, or past their prime musical acts that carry them.

 

[Footer]

We see a decent amount of them due to Creative Stage Lighting, the US distributor of Avo, is just north of here. If you need to run a 120k rig they are the console. The guys that carry them love them... and they tend to be the ones who really move with the show.

 

[bishopthomas]

The guys that carry them love them...

I carry and LOVE mine.

 

[JCarroll]

Not an avo, but still busking like a boss...

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That is a MagicQ. That guy also is the LD for NIN and does a similar thing.

 

[derekleffew]

Notice how forlorn the lonely gMA1 looks, just sitting there quietly doing its thing, while the MagicQ takes (requires) a pounding.
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[Amiers]

I hope that table was only used once cause it looks like its on its last leg

 

[Sandy Seigfried]

So I just got to go see the Carson and Barnes circus and the board OP was busking like a pro on and old avolite that looked like it had a roladex on the left side of the desk under the subs. I wish I would of gotten a video of it because it looked pretty awesome. Can anyone tell me what Avolite board it was?

The guy running the board is Bill Dunn, Odyssey Lighting.... The board is Avolite Diamond 3...the man you are talking about is my husband!!

 

[Amiers]

Nice, that was so long ago, but I still remember it like it was yesterday.

 

[Sandy Seigfried]

I read your post yesterday.... You were probably one of the people I told Bill was watching him....Bill is a fantastic Lighting guy....and I'm glad you posted about him

 

[Sandy Seigfried]

Heres a pic from the show