Light Show - Tank - The Seatbelts

[TheMovieFails]

i have just seen how to program dmx controllers, holy crap,this must have taken hours!

[DannyLuftmanCircus]

Very nice 

[zombieflipkick]

holy cow! this was awesome!

[bryan316ify]

What is the song

[MetalDialga1998]

@bryan316ify Tank for the anime "Cowboy bebop" Now on Adult swim

[djclos1988]

nice light show

to bad ur PARs are blowing ur scans away :P

[NoiseMakerX]

This make me think of the seventies...

[daveystod]

Do you use Light Jockey to Cue?

[AnthonyDJ1079]

NICE!(:

[TheStevepassey]

nice light show

[homewardbound23]

Cowboy Bebop is my favorite anime. Thanks for posting this.

[noir4hire]

Nice, Yep you can spot those I-beams a mile a way... I call them lawnmowers, for the racket they make when you re-strike them.. I love the "Tank-song" I just know it from Cowboy-Bebop!!! coll setup!

[grateredshark12345]

yoko cono FTW

[PolishGuy89]

AWESOME!! seriously I did not notice that the scrollers stopped working, and I'm sure no one else did either. And if they did, I'm sure they thought i was part of the show.

[fanficrocks]

dude, what a kick-ass light and sound show. i wish i could of seen it live.

[shuffle953]

hey mate your dimmer rack for your parcans is running on DMX isn't it?

[soundlight]

@shuffle953 Yes, everything in the rig is running on DMX. The dimmer rack is on the first universe of DMX and all of the automated stuff (scanners, scrollers, etc) is on the second universe of DMX.

[soundalperso]

es genial el manejo de luces en cambio de boom a escepcion de unas parte :)

[bridgetn88]

this is the coolest thing ive ever seen lol

[typhoonjax]

Sigh. Bebop. This makes me so happie. -fave- <3!

(AAAA I LOVE THIS SONG.)

@.@ pretty lighties...!

[tozalight]

good job!!!

[killerchaosxx]

a lightshow with a cowboy bebop theme...interesting. i liked it, tho. :)

[Zocker223]

It is a great Light show.

Which movingheads do they use ??

[soundlight]

No moving head fixtures were used, just moving mirror fixtures. There's an equipment list in the description if you're interested.

[UpdownCourt09]

Holy shit. Awesome

[Boomdoggles]

try some isoloutios gear its pretty good and solid

[orbitair]

I LOVE IT!! really cool!

i woulve timed the ending a little later...just like half a second later

but the rest is jus amazing!!!! GOOD JOB!

[ACPentertainment]

lol gotcha! I'm trying to look to other "newer" brands of lighting, thats a-cheaper, and b-new and uniqe. We'll see how that goes! who knows. hey if you need any new gear lemme know..I'm a reseller for a whole bunch of brands

[ACPentertainment]

very cool way of using those s-4's. Are you not a fan of moving heads? so far i havnt seen any of them in your videos....that i can see. Did you use the 26 to go mor narrow with the beams so they are better highlighted? why not 19's? What power source are you running? stage power? if so how many tails/ phases? awesome show!

[soundlight]

If I had moving heads I'd totally use them! The only moving lights that we own are the Intellabeams. In the "Planetarium" show, there are 4x VL3000 that we rent for the dance concerts. 2 downstage and 2 upstage. I can't remember if they were 26s or 19s honestly, I didn't do a gear list for this show at the time. Just after the fact looking back at a pic of the rig. Dimming came from the installed dimmer racks, and power for the movers came from our side-stage three phase panel.

[shuffle953]

hey if u dont have moving heads and just have lots of par 56's or 32's its just the way u set them up they r actually very usefull i use 8 par 56 cans at my school and 3 blinders and now we are getting 4 mac 700 washes and 2 lasers and a new controller :)

[switched101]

50 to 60 hours? you better speed your act up mister... try aiming for 12hours and you just might be a rockstar oneday.

[eternalfire1244]

for the console he was using I am not really surprised that it took so long for setup and programming. There are a few really good consoles out there that are amazing for working with intelligents. The grandMA and Whole hog 2 immediately come to mind. a lot of time can be cut with a good console and someone who knows how to work it..

[MrMrchopper]

awsome

[riverpound]

That´s funny. good job.

[spoerl92]

w8...

u set that shit up?

damn yo

haha good stuff lol

and this has 2 be 1 of the most beast songs ever made

[SMPTE82]

boring ...

sorry ....

[MrBatuLesung]

just nice!!!

[djgardernal]

Exelent!!!Moving Heads By the brasil

[PlayFoLife]

How long time did it take to make this light show?

And, have you thought about using LED?

[soundlight]

Took me far too long. Including all the setup and rigging, probably 50 to 60 hours. I use what the theatre has, and at this point in time we do not have the budget to purchase LED fixtures powerful enough to be useful in a theatre and dance setting. These fixtures are minimum $500 each, and they wouldn't be useful unless we had 12 to 16 of them for washes - otherwise they'd be useless toys. It's hard to compete with a 575 watt T-H source and specially designed filament + reflector.

[rebenjam]

Yeah, I agree. LEDs have a ways to go before they can compete. However, I did see the concept LED fixture by Varilite at LDI and it's pretty impressive. But it's going to cost a whole lot more than $500.

Anyways, really nice work. Keep it up!

[soundlight]

The VLX (vari*lite's LED fixture) is going to be pretty sweet. Zoom and everything. We recently were deciding if we could replace our cyc lights with LEDs, and we came to the conclusion that nothing less than a full Selador hang top and bottom would do it. Don't have the money for that! The colors and punch of anything less (even the Martin Stagebars and other RGBAW fixtures) just aren't up to it.

[trav1971]

Nice most people probaly never had heard "Tank" or the Seatbelts much less a wicked light show to it cool

[TomAlf2803]

EXELENT!!!!!!!! by the way...what's your work??

[soundlight]

Currently still in college. Building up enough knowledge to dive in to the real professional world of lighting after senior year, which I'll be entering this fall.

[TheSchimmi]

Mmm, reminds me of when i stayed up "late" to watch cowboy bebop.

[aleregnia]

the lights are beautiful but the music sucks you're an idiot

[soundlight]

Please explain. Creative criticism accepted, blatant disregard not.

[aleregnia]

I could not care but the music sucks even my grandma listens to the

[marcproud]

Your opinion... but it's my opinion that YOU are an idiot.

[aleregnia]

fuk!

[jorash123]

bloody brill m8e

[1986AEF]

Excellent job. That light show was fantastic and completely in time with the music. How many banks of scenes did it take to make that show or are you using another control method?

[extranion]

nice :)

[maelynn91]

i would explode with joy if the seatbelts performed with the light show or there was a dancing couple.

[xolauenxo]

this is so cool

[ferryjammy]

fantastic

hope to see more vids similar

ferryjammy

[idotswithcamera]

this is soo cool i watch it like 50 times

[DerrtyM]

perfect! ***** 5 stars

[LitesCameraAction09]

I really liked how you do most of the design with still lights. Its really creative!! Cool!

[tnemgif]

agreed, a nice way of mixing the modern lights with the more 'traditional' fixed lights.

*****5 Stars*****

[soundlight]

Thanks all! Description has been updated with some semblance of a rig inventory.

The whole rig structure was built out of Schedule 40 steel pipe and couplers of various sorts. The 2 hanging "pods" up right and left were hung from a lineset with aircraft cable and a second run of aircraft cable through the pipe for safety.

[sjefenpoely4]

awesome

[ohmagaod]

this is ridiculous! what system did you use to program this? this had to be hell to set up.

[00hehe]

that is a gel light and a moving head

[stevespeed2000]

What did you use to control these?

[mchisholm22]

I need to learn to be able to do this! awesome show!

[john4672]

VERY cool.....keep up the good work!

[RensDem]

Wow!

Somebody didn't sleep for a few day's I think!

How long did it take you to program it?

[soundlight]

Well, I'll say this - I found out that the local Dominos will deliver until 2am. I'd say setup + programming + timecode entry was about 50 hours. Time for subsequent shows drops significantly as I learn more.

[tomrbland]

Fantastic shame about the two strollers but nobody that doesn't have an eye for that stuff would have noticed.

Well done! (I don't mean that to sound condescending!)

[tomrbland]

Sorry about the typo!

[wwenotebook001]

whats the song

[soundlight]

Says in the title.  "Tank" - The Seatbelts

[starlight62700]

super travail, BRAVO!!!!

[JacobDJMan]

Nice show. I don't think you need any more smoke or haze.

[wezza69]

good effort my friend!

[martin0mac2000]

how many fixtures are on this rig and what types?

[nrdsunardi]

I like it, good job

[Bowiddl]

SOO Awesome !

great m8!

[dejaybrian]

more hazer!!

[RightTone]

Nice show. I agree with a bit more smoke tho.

[everitt11]

i wouldn'tsay smoke, i'd say haze, smoke screens the beams were as haze make them bolder and stand out :) xD

[245thegreat]

needed a bit more smoke then you would of totally cracked it

nice job

[tofumanandamy]

i would love to dace there

[mannoth123]

dace? lol

[wgci34]

Ilike it.

[NordSporter]

haha, nice oldschool lightshow, and the good old intellas, well done

(I presume you use the Intellabeam Controller for the Scanners, right?)

[soundlight]

Nope, ETC Obsession 650 (1st gen, not obs2) with MLDRC. Everything was sync'd via the internal SMPTE timecode of the Obsession.

[lighttech258852]

What lixing console did you use??

[kujjja]

Someone knows if they are going to make something in Europe?

[KevKa61289]

nice

[TeshiMeshi]

awesome work!!

[b4y0n37w0rk]

haha soundlight, it's SAWYeR from CB. Cery nice work, sir.

[brathzo]

How much ur power bill was? lol!

[Sougen02]

Hahaha! xD

[TomS773smith]

fantastic

how may lights are there altogether

what board did u use or was it on computer??

wow

it's really great

[TwoTimesInAWeek]

did you use a computer program for the lights?

[Albertz08]

great vid SoundLight... fantastic

[ThaTyger]

Very nice show!

[Bartzjie]

GREAT!!!!

[Manuel1975000]

Sorry, agian: you da bomb...

[Manuel1975000]

VERY VERY VERY VERY Inspirering...!!!

[BirthOfParadise]

I love this song, it's so jazzy and secret agent-sounding. It's also the theme for the anime Cowboy Bebop.

[OnionRingOfDoom]

Sweeeeeeeet!

[CosmoWizard]

nice

[MariusInMD]

Nice!!!!!!

[Coggy01]

Very very good. Loved it

[Domovoi07]

oooh, lovely!

5/5 dude, loved it

[dman11231123]

what up dude

[soundlight]

Thanks!  My second one will be going up next week sometime, once I edit it down and overlay the original audio track so that the audio sounds nice (like this one).

[shepheard222]

Very inspiring! love your programming style and choice of music.. work great together!

[supermanafan]

AWSOME JOB

[LeSnow]

more sweet than nice ;)

[kodyB420]

damn if i was on acid that would be sick to watch

[muisross]

hey nice job what happend to those color scrollers oh well its still a great show lust wondering what kinda movers thos where and what kinda bord you used, and was that programed w/ time cade or a very well rehhersed go button-muse

[soundlight]

Board was an Obsession 600 (upgraded to 750) using the internal SMPTE clock at 30fps to fire cues. Music was just started at the same time that I started the timecode sequence. Movers are Intellabeam 700HX, and the scrollers had been messing with me for a while. No idea what it was, but they're back to normal now. They're Apollo SmartColors, just for reference.

[Gcc0]

OMG

[ThatsNice5]

NICEEEE!!!

[ThatsNice5]

NICE!!!

[gafftaper]

Nice Work Bud... You did a great job squeezing every last drop out of those movers and I cues. See you back in the booth. -Gaff