DMX Operator mic

I thought the DMX operator went through the scene's by a timer too! Does it? Or was I dreaming?! That would solve it! A timer thingy, or like he said, a sensativity knob. Try placing tape over the mic, so less sound gets into it. It might make it worse. I dont know

Yeah, it has a timer and tapsync, but I think the lights look better reacting to the music. I could try tape, but when I put my finger over the mic on my vertigo, the light just goes continuously. Maybe I could tape something semi-permeable like a cotton ball or something.

The DMX Op. has an auto playback mode that uses the step time & fade time faders to advance scenes but it is hard to get it exactly where you want it sometimes and if you want to keep it going through multiple songs you would have to keep adjusting the faders.

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Originally posted by Dj Madness:
[qb]Yeah, it has a timer and tapsync, but I think the lights look better reacting to the music. I could try tape, but when I put my finger over the mic on my vertigo, the light just goes continuously. Maybe I could tape something semi-permeable like a cotton ball or something. [/qb]

Or, if you didn't want ot add an adjustment pot you could put
a strip of electrical tape such that it covers about half
of the mic opening. By adjusting the position of the tape you'd
have adjustability.

Ray

Didn't work...

Is it possible I have a faulty unit? It doesn't seem like it should go through 3-4 scenes every time there is any bass present...even it it's a quick hit. It's very annoying..the light's built in programs look better than mine for the simple reason that mine go crazy every time the bass hits instead of doing one movement.

I know the sensitivity on the audio is not thee best. what I recommend is using the tap sync . all you have to do is hit it 3 times on beat and it does fine.

How about the Operator 2 or even the Show Designer? How is the sensitivity on those?

Operator ll is similar to the l. the Show designer has line input no mic.

What I did with my Automate/DMX was opened it up a "tore" out the microphone, then just drilled in the back, plopped a female rca jack on there, wired it up to the old mic leads, and bought some RCA splitters to split the signal from strobe-amp-pocket scan controllers. then to adjust merely turn down the source volume, and up the amp. let me know.

I use a show designer quite often and am quite familiar with the features of it... granted, there is no mic input, but there is an audio input line on the board, that way you don't have to mess with the sloppy mic. The audio line in is bass sensitive and works rather well. I have progressed in my lighting capabilities, so I no longer use the audio input, just run everything manually. I work with about 150k in lighting so look is definitely worth the manual effort. As far as putting tape over the mic... won't work... remember, bass is non directional and a little flimsy piece of tape really isn't going to do much to the sensitivity. Mostly it all just depends on what kind of lighting you are running... if you are running special effects lighting like vertigo, etc... use operator.. using trackspots, etc... like myself... use show designer... no questions... Hopefully this sheds a little light on your problem... djjaredd@yahoo.com