Ok due to still further disagreement over weather the extra parts are subs or not I went looking at
Strand specifications as well as my
Strand 300 user’s
manual I had kicking around my
house.
The board can be a
Strand 24/48 or 48/96, where the 24/48 or 48/96 stands for the
manual channels. Where the 24/48 and 48/96 have to do with the single and two scene
preset mode, though the higher number of the two i.e. out of 24/48 the 48 is the number of channels your board allows . No matter what board you have in the
Strand 300 series, weather it’s the cheaper ones (schools own these – the
manual/memory channel boards 24/48 and 48/96) or the larger bigger brother (still the
strand 300, not talking about the
strand 500) the 125 and 250
memory channel boards they both only have 24 submasters, though these have 4
overlapping pages.
-
Manual/Memory Desks offer traditional
preset fader operation plus memory
- Two models of up to 48 or 96
manual faders with bump buttons
- 24 fully
overlapping submasters
-
Manual control faders consisting of 96 (48 ) controllers arranged in modules of 24 faders (2 rows of 12) shall be provided for
manual preset operation. The
system shall support both two scene
preset and single scene
preset with hold functionality.
- A maximum of 600 cues, 24 submasters x 4 pages….
- Four pages of fully
overlapping submasters shall each be provided.
However, there is one discrepancy in this; the online catalogues and information say that there are 4 pages of submasters, where-as my user’s
manual says there are 6 pages.To change the
page of the submasters there is a “sub
page”
button, which you hit “sub
page” and then the number you wish to go to.
Also, the red light on the
manual faders stand for single scene
preset, or it can be a green light, in which it is two scene
preset. They are somewhat like subs but they are not actually submasters. However, you can have your single or two scene
preset activated with your submasters on as well, allowing the user to use both the submasters and the
manual faders. Or you can de-activate the subs, though I don't know why you'd do that. Though I did find this nice little tid-bit of information, not directly from
Strand, but a
manual talking about the new and old ways of controling lights.
On many consoles, this
two-scene
preset arrangement will handle only a fraction of the total
number of channels in the
system unless several are loaded onto each
controller. When not being used to
build up cues, these same controllers
can be digitally reassigned, frequently as submasters.
However, I don't know why
Strand doesn't mention this possibility when talking about their submasters, so I don't know if it actually applies or not. Perhaps, you can set up each
page of submasters to each set of
manual faders.
Hopefully that helped.
PS. I hope that all made sense