We have basically been evicted from our venue and are looking for a new home. There’s already a few possibilities but none are ready, everything will have to be installed. I pulled our dimmer racks today and we’ll be reusing as much as we can since this was an unforeseen occurrence that’s going to be expensive, but I ran into some issues and hope some people might share thoughts.
Our light board will need to go eventually. Currently, the board sits in the rear of the old venue and the 5-pin DMX cable runs to the dimmer rack. We’ll probably do the same to start, but if we upgrade the board, should I run DMX from the new booth to the rack, to a splitter, or run Cat6 as well? I’m not up to speed on the new lighting systems, but I’m reading as many posts as I can. I originally thought just 2 DMX lines, one to the racks then one for a second universe (I think I’m using that right) in case we get movers for FOH. Eventually the dimmer racks will be retired I’d assume, so would it be worthwhile running Cat6 at the same time? I’m already planning on buying a spool for runs from the sound booth to the rack, so I’ll have it. We don’t have any lighting equipment that uses it at the moment, but if I’m running one cable I might as well run 8.
And I know wireless DMX seems to be popular, but I’m terribly old school and fearful of wireless technology. I’ll be reading, but any help is welcome!
Our light board will need to go eventually. Currently, the board sits in the rear of the old venue and the 5-pin DMX cable runs to the dimmer rack. We’ll probably do the same to start, but if we upgrade the board, should I run DMX from the new booth to the rack, to a splitter, or run Cat6 as well? I’m not up to speed on the new lighting systems, but I’m reading as many posts as I can. I originally thought just 2 DMX lines, one to the racks then one for a second universe (I think I’m using that right) in case we get movers for FOH. Eventually the dimmer racks will be retired I’d assume, so would it be worthwhile running Cat6 at the same time? I’m already planning on buying a spool for runs from the sound booth to the rack, so I’ll have it. We don’t have any lighting equipment that uses it at the moment, but if I’m running one cable I might as well run 8.
And I know wireless DMX seems to be popular, but I’m terribly old school and fearful of wireless technology. I’ll be reading, but any help is welcome!