I and the company I work for are in the middle of a renovation for a local theatre/concert venue. The promoter from the venue who is in charge of the "creative" decisions went and bought a no-name LED ring that is rigged from three winches. I've included the DMX chart that came with the system.

We installed a Hog5 system as part of the install and in the fixture builder I have all of the light parameters no problem. The issue is I'm not sure what to use for the motor controls. Would using a basic intensity work?

Im also not exactly sure how "Color variation of LED main light effect" should be interpreted.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

This is the current isolator switch for the house lights- is there a DMX dimmer that would be suitable to use in it's place/alongside?

Thanks.

Hi All, not sure if this is the right place for this, please direct me elsewhere if not. Long story short. Our wedding is coming up next month. We hired a band that we assumed would be adding some dance floor lighting. They don't. We are scrambling to find a vendor, but on short notice, options are limited.

My question, could I just get like 4 of these lights and set them to Sound Activated Mode? Or are there any other relatively easy plug and play options we can execute on? We spent a lot of Money on a good band, and it feels silly to not have some dance lighting for it.

https://betopperdj.com/products/betopper-19x15w-rgbw-with-light-strip-effect-moving-head-light?variant=43389869949064

Thanks!

Any suggestions for a Linsn LED Studio Tutorial?
I just bought a sign with a Linsn controller and only have Novastar Vplex Handy experience

2 questions here !

1 : how can i control my show with apc mini mk2 , i found how to operate punch but cannot find a way to use faders…

2 : how to setup artnet outputs

Hey all, thanks in advance for any advice.

I’m a sound guy with little lighting experience. I recently was asked to help out with lights for our local high school’s competitive show choir, and I figured this would be a good opportunity to learn a little. The basic competition lights are handled by a regional company, but just stage washes/color and the occasional gobo or whatever the host school has on hand. Our job would be show-specific highlighting and effects from four movers taken to every comp: a couple of spots and beam washes. We also have some LED bars, but those are optional so far.

Other hardware is a MacBook Air M5 and an ENTTec USB DMX Pro interface. Have room for a Launchpad Mini or Nanokontrol for MIDI. One DMX universe, obvs.

First thing I’d like to do is change the software. They’re currently using DMXis, which has been discontinued and unsupported for a while now. Kind of doesn’t make sense to spend a bunch on “pro” software for a handful of lights (that and time to learn how to use it). The choir uses a live band, not tracks, so we can’t use handy timeline-based programming; it’s gotta be individual cues fired by hand, Qlab-style. A visualizer would be nice, even 2D.

The logical answer is Show Buddy Active, but it seems geared to syncing to prerecorded tracks, and since we use a live band that’s exactly what we don’t need. Looked into posts here, and none really perfectly fit our use case. QLC+ 4 seems esoteric to program and has a weird interface, but I understand it’s popular and Mac-stable (more so than QLX+ 5). Lightkey is Mac-friendly and inexpensive, but a lot of comments here say to avoid it. EOS is industry standard but seems like straight-up coding to program, plus there’s the proprietary interface. I’ve been advised to avoid programming lights on Qlab for my own sanity. Everything else is, unfortunately, on the expensive side to just run four lights.

Any suggestions? Am I asking too much? Misinformed?

So I’m doing lighting and audio for my friends band and he bought 2 dmx led pars and is getting some moving heads so I started looking for a console. Have any of you tried these out? The led pars have dmx but the regular lighting don’t seem to have any as far as I know.

I'm a novice, and I'm setting up a rig for an office building in which we're going to install four titan tubes into every overhead fixture on set. I was going to make groups for each fixture. I.e: tubes 101 thru 104 = Fixture 1, tubes 105 thru 108 = Fixture 2, etc... However, I've seen a lot of shows putting the tubes into parts: 101.1, 101.2, 101.3, 101.4 for Fixture 101. Is there a benefit beyond the tubes sharing the same channel number?

I’m a touring musician, currently on tour as an opening act. In our tech rider we have “no strobes”, because I get debilitating migraines that can be triggered by flashing lights. But on this tour in particular we are encountering LDs at venues who are doing a lot of flashing lights that are “technically not a strobe”. Last night in particular it was near-constant flashing in the sides of my peripheral vision that gave me visual disturbances for many hours after the show.

I’d love to update our rider with something more specific but I’m not sure how to phrase it. If anyone can advise on a more technical way to say “no fast flashing lights”, I would appreciate it very much :)

Thanks!

I work at a mid size church without alot of money to throw around. And good haze machines recommendations for an okay price?

Just saw Marilyn Manson and Rob Zombie the other night and gotta say they put on a great show. Marilyn's set was very traditional with just strobes and some LED cross logos, but Rob went all out. Pretty much Zombie's whole stage was backed with led screens and he even brought out the crane platform thing from Madonna's last tour 😆.

So anyway they had a few real flame towers on stage but then they also had these "fake" mover flames. Im still not sure what they were but they appeared to shoot fire balls in a fanned out pattern that changed colors from green to purple. They went in front of the LED screens but they didnt put out the intense light the actual fire did. My best guess is that they were burst of smoke timed with the movers but it was an outdoor show so that seems pretty tough to pull off. Anywho looked really cool. Any idea what they did to make that effect?

Heyo im trying to broaden my horizons of dmx control as im trying to get more into it via setting up it might self for future plans/projects one thing im trying to understand at the moment i get setting up the channels and the different features/effects on each channel but one thing im trying to understand more is the audio routing and the controls it has over each channel and what it can achieve being ran through a dmx controller but also another question im wondering for ex with lasers if there set to a certain channel and audio is being ran through it will it only do a loop back of the effect but kinda react to the audio and also is most of the way lighting/lasers that are used at festivals or concerts are they pre made via software or do they achieve it manual control w audio or how does it work any info would be great thanks 😅

How can I start getting festival lighting op work at festivals? Like smaller stages at reading/victorious festival?

EDIT: I already work at a 300 cap venue as head lighting tech but interested in festival work!

Hello,

I'm trying out MA Lighting Dot2 (Free with 1 universe) on a Windows laptop which receives midi triggers through RTPMidi (Tobias Erichson) from an iPad air4 with usb-c dock with ethernet, running the Bandhelper app which sends the midi.
The midi is starting when we push the play button in the setlist, midi starts together with the click/cue track.
Dot2 on the laptop sends Artnet to the Showtec 2/3 which in turn translates it to DMX which is connected to the fixtures.
I got it working succesfully but it is as test.

My question is, is this going to be a reliable workable band Liveshow setup?
Anybody experience with a similar setup with Dot2 / RTPmidi / Bandhelper?

Hey all!

Was hoping to probe the collective wisdom for guidance on setting up some portable stage lighting for a band. If this is not the right place, please feel free to delete or direct me to the correct location.

Stage setup is typical - drums in center flanked by amps left and right. Here is what I’m currently thinking…

Would like to get a haze machine and a couple of light bars behind the amps on either side for washes, pulses, strobes, and chases, possibly the same at front for foot lights. Amp will have static LED strips across the bottom to cover middle ground.

Program and control would come via MIDI to DMX from a B Beat Evo.

Questions:
- Is this sane / reasonable?
- Are there better / more reasonable options than ADJ Jolt Bar / Chauvet COLORband units?
- Programming software?
- Recommended MIDI to DMX converters?
- Anything patently obvious that I’m just not aware of?

For budget, considering ~$2000 for lights, converter, cabling, and software.

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Newbie here, no idea who to ask. I came across the ground loop thing in dmx recently, caused by different ground potentiom from different power source

Question: if I'm running my dmx on laptop/ on a console that is powered from one socket , and ran a dmx cable to a fixture that is connected to another circuit, just a simple set up like this wouldn't it create a ground loop?

Thanks :>

As an EOS buskers, I have a complicated relationship with the software. Obviously there are other desks that are more accepted as desks to use when you’re busking lights, but for EOS programmers it’s our preferred software and even though it feels like you’re fighting the software’s instincts, at the end of the day it’s familiar.

Well now Hog5 is out and has the EOS treatment of educational videos, meanwhile I’ve noticed that although EOS had gone through a phase of featuring buskers and pushing the console’s busking capability, there are still quite a few busker feature requests that have been getting ignored with new updates.

So did anyone give in and go over to Hog5 to keep the ETC loyalty? Is it like EOS just more busking friendly? Is it really better for busking than busking on an EOS?

I'm looking for cheap lamps or RGBs for a corner to light the a room but not brightly and help not hurting my eyes from the monitor, i saw govee has uplighter floor lamp or something that works but it's really expensive for me

I don't have a lot of lighting friends to show off to, but I did some lighting I'm proud of and wanted to show it off 😛 (Plus, it's totally Wednesday Self Promo Day, right?)

Had an event last weekend, used 4xV-Show IP1940 Bee Eye lights in pixel control mode to pixel map the back wall of the space. Learnt a lot about pixel mapping stuff within EOS, it's not as difficult as I thought it'd be!

[Here's the "From the Tech Booth" Angle](https://imgur.com/CRzgQCm)

The other cool thing I did was create my own custom LED Lanterns using WLED, 3D Printing with baking paper to diffuse the light. All controlled via sACN over Wifi (Yeah, I know... I've had bad times using Wifi and WLED before, but this time it went flawlessly!)

[Pretty Lanterns](https://imgur.com/ho93dOJ)

Other lights I used for it - the venue's fresnels for a front wash and my DukBeam™ (A 450W Chinese BSW light with a small camera stuck to the top of it so I can drive it as a follow spot)

Always happy to answer any questions!

Hi Everybody!
For a shoot tomorrow I can‘t get a seemingly simple task in the Astera app to work an I really hope to find some help here:
All I want is a sequenze of 8 titan tubes to fade up and down one after the other. It‘s to illuminate a hallway where an actor is walking down the hall and the lights above him should light up, when he passes beneath them.
With 2 colleagues we tried all kind of chaselight-settings but never quite made it work properly.
Can anybody with more experience maybe give a hint on how to configure this kind of effect? If anything, I’d at least like to have a set of flash-tiles to manually dimm up every light, but I couldn’t get that programmed either…
Thank you so much in advance!