Its one of the ones that gets supplied into a new building when no one on the design team has any clue about stage lighting.
Heh. Feel free to review any of my earlier comments about how our local school system acquires these things, then lets them go unused until they are superb museum pieces. Most of the older middle schools here have Lehighs, along with a DX2 dimming rack and Collage control station. If it weren't for those control stations, I suspect most of the lights in those schools would never be energized other than by community theater companies.
This. So does it really make any difference what the design team puts in, as long as there are preset control stations?
It seems that more often than not, there are no competent school personnel available to use anything even bordering on having flexibility.
A local high school's Lehigh Legacy went down and I substituted a 12-preset control station while it was away for repair. The activities director said "Why can't we just have one of those? Do we really need the console?"
I know. Chicago Public Schools require a console for their K-8 gymnatoriums of which I have done quite a few. I'm sure there are high schools that would love to have the same system - around 48 LEDs, good data and power distribution, and an Element or Cognito recently. I asked if we could just put in a touch screen backstage, preset recall stations in a couple of places, and receptacles for a borrowed or rented console. Would not fly.
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