Well if a
lantern was on
dimmer 26, I put that up on the board.. so I guess that's
channel. We're moving the board (
Strand Palette) so the show is saved on it. But how is it going to work moving it? Is there anything I need to know as Chief Lx to make things quicker and easier?
You have two options here, and it may well depend on the
venue which you go for. You can hard-patch, where you
plug each
lantern into the correct
dimmer (so if you want a particular
lantern on
channel 27, you
plug it into
dimmer 27) and use a 1:1 patch on the
desk, or you can soft-patch, where the
lantern is plugged into whichever
dimmer it gets plugged into, and you assign each
dimmer to the correct
channel on the
desk. Some venues don't have the ability to hard-patch, which leaves you with no option but to soft-patch. Whichever way you go, you'll need to make a note of where each
lantern is plugged in (
circuit or wayline number) and either
plug that wayline into the correct
dimmer or soft-patch that
dimmer (if there is no hard-patch, then the
circuit number should be the
dimmer number) to the correct
channel. I normally print off a
channel list which consists of
channel number,
fixture type, position, purpose and
gel colour and has a blank column for
circuit and one for
dimmer - that way as each
lantern is rigged and plugged in, you can add the
circuit/
dimmer number and that way patching is logical and pretty quick.