Robert F Jarvis
Well-Known Member
Been looking for a reasonably low priced console for our smaller theater as the aged ETC Expression 3 is showing signs of senility!
I've used a few of the big boy's consoles and become somewhat spoiled to touch screen, Color wheels, Encoders yada yada I.e. expensive tastes.
Then I came across the Chamsys QuickQ. This little sucker packs a punch. Not up to lighting the Rolling Stones on tour for sure but it will do everything we need for a 100% LED 100 seater theater +++
It does have a few quirks and limitations like the 20 faders (Q20) are restricted to the 1st 20 patched fixtures. Bummer? Not really: you can patch more than 20 and then access them both on the layout screen and within the intensity screen which can be paged.
It works well in 'busking' mode for those bands on stage and in 'Theater' mode for a regular linear cue play.
One thing that does separate it from the more expensive jobbies is you can only patch a fixture (control channel) to a single DMX address. And yet the darn thing has built in networking, RDM etc. Go figure.
We would be interested in hearing from anyone who has experienced console.
Ya'll keep safe out there!
I've used a few of the big boy's consoles and become somewhat spoiled to touch screen, Color wheels, Encoders yada yada I.e. expensive tastes.
Then I came across the Chamsys QuickQ. This little sucker packs a punch. Not up to lighting the Rolling Stones on tour for sure but it will do everything we need for a 100% LED 100 seater theater +++
It does have a few quirks and limitations like the 20 faders (Q20) are restricted to the 1st 20 patched fixtures. Bummer? Not really: you can patch more than 20 and then access them both on the layout screen and within the intensity screen which can be paged.
It works well in 'busking' mode for those bands on stage and in 'Theater' mode for a regular linear cue play.
One thing that does separate it from the more expensive jobbies is you can only patch a fixture (control channel) to a single DMX address. And yet the darn thing has built in networking, RDM etc. Go figure.
We would be interested in hearing from anyone who has experienced console.
Ya'll keep safe out there!