Hey all, in reference to an early post I made about renting moving lights for a concert that I've got going on in February, I wanted some input from those of you who are familiar with moving light programming. I currently have access to 2 ETC Express 48/96 boards. In addition to close to 60 channels of conventional fixtures for this concert, I am planning to rent around a dozen 7 channel LED PARS, 2 VL2500s, and 2 Techobeams.
Having never ran movers on an Express board and only on the Expression line, what are your thoughts on setting up the boards in a master/slave situation with one board for the conventionals and one for the toys? I like the idea of being able to grab the faders that correspond to the movers instead of throwing any of them above my fader capability in terms of DMX adressing (I'm a big fadder guy). Would it be too tricky to run both boards siumtaneously even w/ 2 board ops? Are there any tricks to running movers on the Express w/o encoder wheels? The trackpad seems hopelessly stupid for any type of real focusing. Let me know what your experience has been, any thing would be great. Thanks!
Having never ran movers on an Express board and only on the Expression line, what are your thoughts on setting up the boards in a master/slave situation with one board for the conventionals and one for the toys? I like the idea of being able to grab the faders that correspond to the movers instead of throwing any of them above my fader capability in terms of DMX adressing (I'm a big fadder guy). Would it be too tricky to run both boards siumtaneously even w/ 2 board ops? Are there any tricks to running movers on the Express w/o encoder wheels? The trackpad seems hopelessly stupid for any type of real focusing. Let me know what your experience has been, any thing would be great. Thanks!