I know exactly what you're talking about in terms of not always being on cue.
We have sub1 as wash, and nobody is allowed to change it, not that they'd have anyreason for it. The only reason I'd hesitate to use cues where I am is that we're a high school theatre. Our actors (and other shows) aren't always perfect. An example would be their in-class play. We had it this week and it'll play again next week. Our drama teacher (who is also the tech superviser-and note it's not teacher) didn't want a run crew. Actors cannot run shows. I believe they are physically and mentally incapable. We were lucky to get an ASM so we knew when to up lights. A few times we lit early, and had to take them down again (very embarassing), so it's a good thing we had subs for that.
*Should have been ETC Express 48/96, not Expression*
I'm assuming by circuits you mean what we call channels. If that's the case, then we have 60, plus two for the incandescent house lights that aren't currently working. The board allows for up to 1024 dimmers, but I couldn't tell you how many the theatre actually has, unless they're the same.
*Should have been ETC Express 48/96, not Expression*
I'm assuming by circuits you mean what we call channels. If that's the case, then we have 60, plus two for the incandescent house lights that aren't currently working. The board allows for up to 1024 dimmers, but I couldn't tell you how many the theatre actually has, unless they're the same.
Yarp. I'm a little hazy on terminology with the Express(ion), but I do recall them being called Dimmers. Really that corresponds to the DMX-512 standard. You can have 512 separate attributes/dimmers per universe, the Express has two universes. Dimmer is not really accurate as you can control anything that operates on DMX on the Express, it just might not be the easiest thing in the world (eg. moving lights).
Each fader on your board controls an individual channel, Fader 1 = Channel 1, etc.
You can softpatch dimmers to channel, so one channel can control multiple dimmer.
You can also hardpatch multiple circuits to a single dimmer, which would require a patch panel.
Of course you could also twofer two lights onto one circuit.
So in theory you could have 1 Sub, controlling 2 channels, controlling 4 dimmers, controlling 8 circuits, controlling 16 lights. In practice, you don't often see hard patch panels anymore, a lot of dimmer-per-circuit systems.
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