Carols 'N' Canes Christmas Music Lights 2009 Pt-1

[ritahalsey]

Great page!

[lee66047]

The genius of this light show is unmistakeable. I have seen homes with 40,000 lights and over a hundred channels in controllers not accomplish message of the holiday season the way this one does. I will be doing my first show this year. Programming is almost complete and I am nowhere near the difficulty of this display. You may have included it on you page, I will check but I am curious how the canes were constructed. Again, Super Job!

[jukingeo]

@lee66047 Hello Lee and thank you for the kind words. '09 was my first year for lighting and I too have seen those 256 channel shows and while they ARE impressive, they also require TONS of programming...months in advance in fact. My show used 3 songs and 14 of 16 channels on my controller and the songs took 1.5 months to program. What I tried to do with the short time I had was to see what I could really do with just 16 channels. The truth is you can do a lot.

[jukingeo]

@lee66047 Oh! Almost forgot, the candy canes are nothing special. What you need is SINGLE plug candy canes, meaning each one has it's own plug. Walmart does sell them like this for about $8 each, but my Walmart put them out too late and thus I enlisted in Lowes and converted their candy canes. The secret to the show is the Renard dimming controller / Vixen program and the DIY Christmas website. LOADS of info there. I DO have chase lighting control experience, so that helped too :).

[PhysicsDude55]

I can tell you have a knack and art for designing light shows. Even though you didn't have an eleborate display, you made very good use of the lights, and especially the candy canes.

Good job, look forward to seeing what you can do in the future :).

[jukingeo]

Hey, didn't see that you posted here! Anyway, thanx for dropping by and posting a comment! Yes, this was my first year so I didn't really have an elaborate display and I mostly centered everything around the candy canes. However, I have had some experience programming DMX light shows in my pro sound & theater days. I had always dreamed of doing something like before Vixen's release, but prior to that DMX really was the only way to go. Needless to say being a pro format it is very expensive.