What is your favorite button on any lighting console?

[Luminosity]

I know my least favorite button, the flip button on AVO boards, I still don't understand it! (Not that I ever use those hippy consoles)

The flip button takes the fixture currently selected in the programmer and 'Flips' it to the other end of its tilt/pan 'spectrum'. Think phase ø button for moving light.

 

[Luminosity]

My favorite button on the Whole Hog II would have to be the Active button. It makes programming a snap and days a little less hectic. This can also be equated to the Focus Point on the ETC Expression.

 

[Peyton]

Toggle switches. Any and all of them.

 

[TimMiller]

flip is both on the avo and hog. Its a nice little tool when you hit your limits, but can totally screw you in programming if you dont have your head on straight. I have to say i absolutely love the rollacue on the avo's. My favorite button on the hog is pig+release, b/c that means going home. Also fan is great when jumping into the effects generator. On the grandma I love the push to erect button, its just totally wrong.

 

[mstutzman]

I absolutly loved the Microvision FX! Thats the ETC console I learned on!

I once had to do a studio show in NY that had what I think was the original Expression 1; it looked like a gang box with buttons. That was a great week of learning, Im not sure if I wanted to throw that console out the window more than the designer wanted to throw me out the front door.

 

[SAWYeR]

Road Hog/Full Boar/III: "Suck" button.

 

[Soxred93]

I'm a simple man. On the ETC Express, my favorite is STAGE. It's a life saver when you can't figure out how to get out of a menu (especially when working with moving lights).

Although I do like the "Suck" button mentioned by the penultimate post.

 

[chris325]

The "meatball" button on the Innovator is the only interesting one, however, I still like the raw power of the blackout button. Especially when I'm working with a particularly disagreeable group of actors.

The "Back" button on the Innovator needs the little border like the GO button has. I seem to accidentally hit that one more than the GO button. And of course, the cue before is always a blackout. Gotta love Murphy's Law.

+1! I was going to post the same thing.
That was my only reservation about upgrading. When you hit the GO button on an Encore, you have to mean it!
Fortunately, the GO button on the Innovator is alright. The software on the other hand...

I share your Innovator pain.

 

[Gildebrand]

I just lööööv the update button, before i found out what is was for i had to, LOAD 4, change som things, RECORD 4 MERGE, its just so much easier with a update button.

 

[kesowul]

I miss having the RELEASE button on the EOS/Obsession... [SNEAK] > [ENTER] or [AT] > [ENTER] just doesn't do it for me.

 

[Wolf]

the "offset" -> even or odd on ETC EOS/ION so quick

 

[cupcakehitman]

The nice, big "Go" button on the ETC Ion. Why? Because having the Go button the same size as every other button on the Express was scary.

 

[Soxred93]

Having the Go button the same size as every other button on the Express was scary.

To be fair, the Go button was a tiny bit larger than the other buttons on the Express.

 

[artisanrhodes]

The power button on any console .Your day starts with it and end with it/

 

[NJLX]

I personally like the big green go button of the Obsession II

 

[jj3502]

i like the solo mode (add / kill) button

 

[edmedmoped]

Big chunky green 'GO' or the home button for the MAC 600s and 250s.

 

[Charc]

Dionysus, MicroVision FX. You should have seen the original!

MARTIN MINI MAC, HORIZON, NSI MLC16

ETC took the knob for the Element out of the MicroVision FX repair stock, I'm sure of it.

 

[derekleffew]

ETC took the knob for the Element out of the MicroVision FX repair stock, I'm sure of it.

Yep, that's why the Element doesn't have radio buttons for bank switching. Someone said "Hey we have thousands of these 25¢ knobs left over from the MVFX, let's design a console around them."

 

[NickVon]

the "channel" bump/tap buttons on the ETC expression

Or the DIMMER WHEEL, on the ETC Insight 1 ( WEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee)