gig log last summer 2010

2nd paying lighting gig music theater
venue-local high school
job description-lighting designer
i have done this gig 3 times how and 2 times with all dmx lighting and this up and coming summer i will have my moving heads and mebey some led dmx par cans

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[bertieisawsome]

how do you get lights in theatre gigs

?!?!?!

[ledlightboy]

@bertieisawsome what do you mean by "get lights"? like get the gig, hang lights, or the lighting that was already in the venue on the cieling?

[bertieisawsome]

how old are you

[ledlightboy]

@generationstationdj yea this next summer i am not even going to run them i am going to be running a whole lot more led dmx lights and then some traditional par cans for a warm white

[generationstationdj]

@ledlightboy idk the dimmer packs should come up automaticly as 1 fixture with the amount of channels= the # of dimmers on each pack.

[jamesduty92]

its more then likely the system has 3Phase dimmer racks, with lighting patch bays the way the lights look like they are setup

[jamesduty92]

@ledlightboy You Bypass there board all together take there DMX cable out the back and convert it into yours, then find the last fixture on stage that has DMX out and start linking your lights from there, the desk will go to 24 channels max proberbly, or so forth, so you start your lightsfrom channel 25,

and all house lights are channels 1-24 on your computer, and the rest are yours, and you can program all scenes nice and easy,

if u get a bit confused let us know

Regards JSaudio

[ledlightboy]

@generationstationdj so you are saying that bacause i just tell the bored to o 1-25 @ full brightness then i could just run a 25 dim channel profile i make and then just put the dmx into my dmx? and the only probolem is that the dmx would go into my dmx but i would not get an out would i? because then i would have to run my dmx line all the way up from the bottom to the top of the venue that is like 200'

[generationstationdj]

@generationstationdj (continued) then you have 6 fixtures (dimmer packs 1-6) with each 4 channels of DMX. Hope this helps!

Merry Xmas,

-DJ Adam

[generationstationdj]

@ledlightboy basicly, each dimmer pack (or whatever they have) will automatically have 1 dmx channel for each fixture, so, if you have (ex: 24) lights, then there will be a total of 24 dmx channels from all the dimmer packs total. So, to map it, first, find out how many dimmer packs, (or racks) the venue has, then find out how many individual dimmers there are on each one. So, if you have for example, 6 dimmer packs (or, again racks) with 4 dimmers on each pack, (continues into next comment!)