Light Show - Def Leppard

[bsplightmaster]

Very nice! How many cues did you have for this?

[slaction]

You could tour strip clubs with this rig/show.

[DuckHouseProductions]

I plan on doing a show like this after my academic exams - using only 2 martin mac 250s, a couple of led parcans and a projector facing the audience as a strobe- programmed on this bit. ly/ mTFIja

[yakk100]

bad ass show brother ! i have been programming lights since high school and that preformance was unbelieveable ! great job!

joshua king

branson , mo

[krazydrummer]

The theatre I work in uses an Ion. Our show is programed, and using SMPTE from an Alesis, it runs itself.

[LegoBen]

Nice job with the "Red light, yellow light, green light go"

[termenatul]

veri good



[LowsRL]

This is so cool, shit is hot bro. keep it up

[02392bretthaley]

what desk did u use to program this ??

[soundlight]

@02392bretthaley See first line of the description. ETC ION.

[Marcinas1972]

Super Pozdrawiam. Jak takie show się programuje ?

[Timmy61317]

yea looks good - suprised it was programed using a ion

personaly i think it is too effect based - it is notisable

also why did you have to sync it all with time code - could part of it be busked

[soundlight]

@Timmy61317 This was really just a test drive of the ION for me, I did not have long to program it because I programmed it during the final exam period so I had lots of studying to do. I also think it's too effect based, but it's what I was able to do with the time I had. As for the busking, I love busking, but I also like a repeatable show like this - for live I'd never have everything timed out like this. Also, quite honestly, the ION is not that great for busking - even with a fader wing.

[dutchbeam]

great show i like the movinghead's ;) 5/5

[Dutch02051990]

I think they are Scans.

[ROSSTBLITZ]

@Dutch02051990 There HES intellabeams

[JohnnyGasket]

Love the intro... I'm gonna use this on my show!

[tjfan48]

nice lightshow

5/5

[mag748]

You say you did all the timing manually. Does this mean there is no MIDI sync between the audio source and the ION console? I haven't looked into timing yet on our ION, but I often use MTC sync on the express and it has worked well.

[soundlight]

I mainly did this as a programming exercise, so getting the audio dead on for live playback was not critical; I was able to line the audio track up perfectly in the video editing software. The timing was done with follow cues on the ION, so it was not "manual" - everything executed itself after I pressed the initial go, so all of the times were recorded in to the console. When doing live light shows I will generally at least start the show with MTC via the MIDI port on the ION.

[dutchbeam]

mmm okay...

[Matthew1260]

Awesome stuff!

[foreya]

I love these! Your effects keep the viewer watching. Just one question: what is the name of this song and why can't i find it on itunrs?!??!?!?

[Staphyl199]

This is freaking awesome!!

[BlackPreHeat]

Wow.

I like your Lightshows. You use many varied Effects which prevents the viewer of getting bored and which are very interesting.

Rating 5/5

[ajblanck]

I can't imagine how intricate this programming is. This is really a great job. How did you like working with the ion? Our school is thinking about getting one. We have a large conventional rig with rented movers for our large shows.

[soundlight]

Thanks! The 1/100 second timing of follows on the ION was definitely useful. Much better than the 1/10 second timing of follows on the Obsession and Expression series consoles. The ION brings ETC back as a major player in the mid-level console market. They lost that market when they didn't really release a console that could handle moving lights - the ION can, and it handles them with ease. It also does conventionals just as well as any older ETC board. Get one if you can!

[nascarfreak88dale]

do you like designing or programming better?

[soundlight]

I love doing both, and could see making a true career out of either. I'm currently keeping my options open as far as which I'll pursue full time (or be a master electrician at a theatre), but I will say that it's hard to keep me from giving my input from a design standpoint while programming for a dance concert, for instance.

[nascarfreak88dale]

you know, thats great. i am the same way.. but ive been in this industry for 2 years.... let me give you some advice.. its who you know... get to know everyone you can

[year9musicwc2]

i a way this guy is corect at least that is true were i live. the more "friends" you have the more gear you can get for a discounted price

[nascarfreak88dale]

hey, what board do you use?

[soundlight]

See first line of the description.

Also, what part of the "industry" have you been in? With what kind of shows? I've worked a decent number of concerts at school as a local hand, have designed for theatre, dance, and music at college (I'll be a senior). Last dance concert rig had almost 400 fixtures. That was a lot of fun to drive!

[brandonmcgee17]

you never really see people use gobo shake effect ever.. good use of it on this video!!

[soundlight]

Yeah, gobo shake is underappreciated. It can work really well for some things, and the Intellabeams have two speeds of it hidden away in their crazy insane dmx mapping of the gobo wheels.

[gmsbandmember]

how do YOU get the music and lights so sync'd together. do u use some program that like tells u when theres a beat /or somthing in the nature?

[soundlight]

I open up the music file in Adobe Audition, and find the exact points (either 30 or 100 frames per second depending on which method I'm using for playback) and write down the exact times. I then write all of the lighting cues in the lighting console, and then synchronize those to the times that I got before in Audition. Everything is manually timed.

[genezix]

AWESOME! I <3 the strobe effect.

[hellobabymario]

This is awesome! What is your job? How did you get it? Can i come work for you? This is exactly what i've been trying to get into and i just can't seem to find a starting off point.

[soundlight]

I'm still in college. This is what I do when I have spare time and the stage is unoccupied.

[hellobabymario]

damn

i'm still in college too.

not much happnin on the work front tho.

i do lights in a night club occaisionaly but nothing like that.

[alstrike716]

good use of gobos too :D

[Djdylan44]

This is Awesome! i love the part when it goes yellow light green light ect ect. and the lights changed to that color! Awesome stuff!.

[freethrow62]

seizure!!!! lol too much strobe be careful about ur audience use WARNINGS!!!

[soundlight]

This was a show that I did for my own entertainment (and to put up here), so audience was not something I was concerned with. For all of our shows that use strobes and haze, we put warnings on all entrance doors. And I generally don't point any strobes that powerful right at the audience.

But considering how many times I watched parts of this show while programming, it really wasn't that bad on the eyes.

[ERICLSTRUNK]

"seizure!!!! lol too much strobe be careful about ur audience use WARNINGS!!! "

Why would there be someone who has light triggered epileptic seizures at a light show?

I on the other hand like the strobe effect!

[freethrow62]

I DID TOO,

I ALWAYS USE STROBE but i still keep it in mind

[RyanGillam]

This great light show made me fall in love with the song!

[ROSSTBLITZ]

ohh yeahh i love the 3000's and i finally got a chance to work with 18 Mac 3's on my lateest show and i had VL 3500's and 3000's rite next to them and the mac's had about 65% more output amazing what martin came up with

[ROSSTBLITZ]

overall the show was very good you should have added the 4x VL3000's in to your rig (5 Stars)

[soundlight]

The VL3000s are only rented for our dance show. We don't have them in our inventory. If only...

[ROSSTBLITZ]

I love the ION, but im still native to hog 3, and i think you need to give those intells and nice lamp change especially the one on the top right

[soundlight]

All of the lamps are brand new. Mix of HSR700s and MSR700s on the Ibeams.

[ROSSTBLITZ]

oh well i only said that because the color temp looked off on the top right and bottom left Ibeams at 1:48 mabby it was the cam.

[soundlight]

Those are probably the MSRs then. HSR 700 is 6000K with a CRI of 85. MSR 700/SA is 5600K, CRI of 80.

[drummedout]

niiice.