This is a
bit out there, but may work, I am yet to try this, but is on my list of things to do before the end of the week.
We have a Zero88 Jester in our rehearsal space, focusing is annoying as it has no
RFR. Enter Nick's brain... A while ago, I did a show with it, where the
chase had to go to the
beat of the music. I stole a pedal from a
muso's keyboard, and plugged it into the audio in on the
desk, the idea was you put your audio feed into it, and it works out the
beat, every time it finds a
beat, it advances. But this also works, with the sustain pedal, meaning lighting becomes a musical, as well as artistic and scientific. This lead me to thinking today, when myself and the other main lighting guy franticly tried to get up a basic rig in time for an event that afternoon. Here was my idea... I found an old wireless mic
system in the store room, as audio doesn't know it exists, I think lighting has first dibs on it. As well as having a
lapel mic, big bulky wireless, it also has a wireless guitar
jack input... Meaning the guitarist won't trip over his amp lead (if you haven't seen a guitarist do this when trying to be a rockstar, you don't know what you are missing out on) we have a new one now, so this was obviously the old one, but my thinking lead me to the conclusion, a pedal connected to the wireless guitar transmitter thinggy, and then the receiver hooked into the
desk, would allow me to do the
chase sequences from a remote location, or have each light in its own part of a
chase, for example, the
chase would
chase 1-however many fixtures you have, advancing each time you hit the pedal, so cycling through your channels.... Remotely. This is a
bit out there, but if you simply want a
RFR to focus on
stage, then this will do the job, at a fraction of the price if you can get an old
unit. And it's wireless. Next I need to make wireless
MIDI.....
This may not do what you wanted Ben, but I hope this is useful to someone with a
console that doesn't have any way to remotely control it.
Nick