Hi fellow Theatre Techs!
Well, I never thought I'd get to this point...but today my board approved the purchase of a New ETC Ion for our theatre, along with a number of LED wash fixtures to replace our current 6 inch fresnels on our electrics.
I have been a LONG time user of etc board...started with the Vision, then went onto the Microvision FX, and then the last 9 years I've been using the ETC Express 72/144 board....again all of these based on running "dimmers" and using submasters.
SO......the ION will be a WHOLE new system for me to learn..but I look forward to it.
anyway, I am not sure if I need to include "INSTALL" of the ION in on the quote....will it be a simple swap out from the Express to the ION? I currently have two universes I run, and we have the SENSOR dimmer racks, etcnet, etc etc.
So should I have someone from ETC come over to do the switch over...or is it pretty straight forward? I basically want to get the board up and running our "conventional" fixtures first, so untrained folks like our choir and band directors can come push a slider up to get full stage lights..and THEN I'll start plugging in our LED color wash lights, and moving heads, etc.
Thanks for any help or advice.
Dan
Well, I never thought I'd get to this point...but today my board approved the purchase of a New ETC Ion for our theatre, along with a number of LED wash fixtures to replace our current 6 inch fresnels on our electrics.
I have been a LONG time user of etc board...started with the Vision, then went onto the Microvision FX, and then the last 9 years I've been using the ETC Express 72/144 board....again all of these based on running "dimmers" and using submasters.
SO......the ION will be a WHOLE new system for me to learn..but I look forward to it.
anyway, I am not sure if I need to include "INSTALL" of the ION in on the quote....will it be a simple swap out from the Express to the ION? I currently have two universes I run, and we have the SENSOR dimmer racks, etcnet, etc etc.
So should I have someone from ETC come over to do the switch over...or is it pretty straight forward? I basically want to get the board up and running our "conventional" fixtures first, so untrained folks like our choir and band directors can come push a slider up to get full stage lights..and THEN I'll start plugging in our LED color wash lights, and moving heads, etc.
Thanks for any help or advice.
Dan