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Help! New to lighting......

FM Former Member
I play in a band -- I've bought some lighting and would like to see about going out and doing some shows for other bands to make some extra cash. I have ( 6 ) Color 150 DMX fixtures and a T16F controller pack. The T16F is built into what looks like a stage montior box with one of ADJ's CYC Border Lights ( 4 halogen washes ), I use this front and center between the front monitor wedges to give a wash for the front of the band so there's no need to out trees out front. I had a guy build this box, looks great, carpet covered. I play bass and control black-out and scene changes with the foot peddle. The Color Changers are on a 10Ft truss behind the band and I run them in Master/Slave mode -- blacking them out with a Mini-C controller. What I wanr to do is add 4 more Color 150 DMX's to the back truss maybe with two DJ scan 250's. Take this set-up and go out and start doing other bands. The color changers look so good and pro -- more than most band have in clubs I see....so many more scenes than just throwing 8 pars up there....and they don't draw any power. Question is --- what board would be good to give me control over ( 10 ) Color Changers...the T16F pack ( which is DMX ) and two DJ Scan 250's? How much control would a noard give me over these? Is this DMX language hard to set up on a board?
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FM Former Member
I use the Dmx operator to run my mighty scans and djscan 250s, The Dmx operator will handle everything you need, extremmly easy to use, 30 banks of memory, each bank hold up to 8 scenes each, you can chase each bank (all the scense in each bank will play in a loop), 6 chases with up to 240 scenes/steps in each. Easy to edit on the fly, (if the band wants you to change the color on a few lights, all u do is select witch lights u want to change.)
Check it out----
http://www.americandj.com/product.asp?ProductIDNumber=466&cat=DMX_Controllers

Make sure u have a Fog/haze machine especially doing lighting for bands.

If u want to invest in scanners the djscan isnt the best, there good for the money but you should get something alittle more high quality, have you looked at the scantron 250, its about a 100$ more than the dj scan,more colors/gobos, a seperate shutter for strobing in every color (Djscans cant strobe), smoother movement, and it comes with a dettachable mirror so u can also use it as a color changer (say a band your doing the lights for doesnt want any moving lights for some reason you could use them as color changers) .
http://www.americandj.com/product.asp?ProductIDNumber=1...Intelligent_Lighting

just some advice Wink
KC
FM Former Member
I'd actually suggest the dmx programmer by elation instead of the operator. It's a step up from the regular operator board. More versatile. No the "dmx language" is quite simple once you get the basics. If your willing to give it just a little bit of time then you'll be fine with it.
FM Former Member
Thanks for the responses.....I'll check out both boards that were recommended and the scanner as well. So, I set up the language on the board to match the appropriate fixture (color, gobo, strobing, dimming)and I control scene changes and everything.....sounds like so much programming
FM Former Member
The lack of a joystick does not limit your ability to control a fixture at all. The joystick only combines the two channels for a particular fixture to control pan and tilt simultaneously.

The joystick is more of a shortcut for programming, allowing generalized movements. But for all of your detail-oriented movements and positioning or strict-pan or strict-tilt adjustments, you'll prefer to use the individual channel sliders/faders. This really helps to minimize unwanted movements when adjusting things like presets.

The joystick may work for detail-oriented programming if the fixtures have 'fine' adjustment settings.

So in other words: Not having a joystick does not limit you ability to fully control a fixture. You can fully control a fixture without a joystick.

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