Wow, I just finished a show last night that used this
console. Now, here is the funny part about it.
Our
theatre is being renovated right now so we had to find another space on campus. We found a large lecture
hall that had a lot of theatrical gear. It was just opened in the Spring of last year.
Inside of it, they had a top of the
line projector....not sure what it was other than it cost about 15k. It was on a lift of some sort in the ceiling so that it could be lowered for maintenance. Apparently the contractors set the limits before installing the seats though so a week before we got there, they lowered it for the first time and killed the lift frame and damaged the
projector when it hit the seats and tried to keep going.
They also set up motorized cameras, a nice
video switcher, a
Yamaha LS-9 with about 16 EAW speakers around the space, along with many more nice quality toys. Clearly they were not afraid to spend....until you saw this
console sitting up there. Talk about a letdown checking out the booth walking down the
line and then coming across this thing. Also the dimmers that they installed were from
Leviton as well. For some reason, they set the dimmers so that at 1% they came up to 50% and then raised up from there. I even ended up swapping out the
console with our
Element and it still happened so I know it was on the
dimmer end. Unfortunately, they didn't have the software to change the curves on the
dimmer end.
