The Lighting Nerds
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Lighting Nerds is a bi-monthly podcast that talks about the technology used in entertainment lighting, lighting industry news, hosts interviews with people in the field, and general banter about lighting.
The Lighting Nerds
2w ago
It's the Lighting Nerds! Into Logic and out of it again in an actually reasonable amount of time, belive it or not. Though sort of unreasonable when it comes to how long it's been since we released. Don't forget to join the Discord :
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News
Cobra2: What's up at the FDA, exactly?
Martin MAC One
Notable productions
Eras, which we'll discuss later
The Grammys, which we'll discuss...now
Tea Time
The Eras Tour
Lighting Trivia: Alex gets it wrong, but we've got a new drop for it
Li ..read more
The Lighting Nerds
4M ago
Zounds! We're back again with a fresh helpin' of down-home, Wisconsin-grade minced oaths. We've got so much forking content to get through that if we don't get talking, we might driven to harder words like frickin' or shirtballs. At least there won't be any trolley problems.
In this episode:
News items
The Ayrton Cobra
Unreal Engine pricing changes
Solotech founder in memoriam
Designer chat
Renaissance Tour
Tea Time
How do you like to distribute DMX?
Lighting Trivia
Lighting Term of the Day: Art-Net
During the time of holiday cheer, whatever you celebrate, may the light of truth and ..read more
The Lighting Nerds
2y ago
Yeah, we still podcast. Sometimes. In this day and age of little work, sometimes we seem to have even less time to get together to pod. Certainly, it affects our motivation. But we have mustered some up for you, dear listeners, so let's dive into this year's week's episode.
New fixtures: the Martin MAC Ultra
Notable personnel movements: don't move, it's COVID.
Garth Brooks cancels
Notable stage designs: feat. NAZIS
Tea Time: Spectacle vs Art: Backline Techs Weight In
Lighting Trivia: First distributed networking?
Lighting Term of the Day: Telescan ..read more
The Lighting Nerds
4y ago
It's Episode 031! Craig and Alex are back, Craig had a baby. Well, his partner did anyway. It's the Episode with the title card you'll have to listen to the whole thing to get. In this episode:
Industry news
We do not talk about the new Clay-Paky light, because I have conflicting information about it. Does it use a phosphor? Are there lasers? CP won't say.
High End Systems Turbo Ray
Vari-Lite 6500 Wash
Bet VL didn't see the Turbo Ray coming!
Fred Foster passed away in February
Notable Tours
The 1975 ABIIOR tour
Is it called that? I keep seeing two different names for the thing ..read more
The Lighting Nerds
4y ago
Woah, two eps in the space of a month? Stop the presses! Hold the phone! Pet the hedgehog! Wat? In this episode, Alexander is back:
Industry news:
New fixtures / gear
GLP JDC1s now feature “Aggressive mode”, which increases the brightness 180% when the RGB LEDs are not in use
World’s first 50-watt 7-color: emitter
New short-arc lamps: Osram SharXS Brilliant Series. 1000, 1200, 1500. They have a CRI of 92, which is pretty high. I’d love to see TM-30-15 specifications on these.
Fun question: when was the last time you saw a jacketed arc lamp? Like, a d ..read more
The Lighting Nerds
4y ago
It's the Lighting Nerds, first ep of 2019. That's twenty-nineteen. Special guest co-host, Chas! In this Episode:
ROE Vanish V8 LED screen
New Follow-Me hardware
Craig has concerns about AC Lighting
Clay-Paky manuals are now behind a username / pass wall? Why? That's dumb.
Bohemian Rhapsody
Tea Time: The Taylor Swift Reputation Tour, Part I
Lighting Trivia: Chas guesses
Lighting Term of the Day: gel
Happy New Year, you hoopy froods! And shouts to the excellent folk at IATSE Local 16 ..read more
The Lighting Nerds
4y ago
It's the Lighting Nerds! Your go-to source for slightly up-to-date lighting information!
In this episode:
News Items
The Vari-Lite VL10 WashBeam
Circa-Scoop LED by Mega Lite. Interesting.
The Altman AP-150. It's...an RGBW PAR.
Notable Movements
George Masek is back at VL. Woo, George!
Notable Tours
Frame By Frame
Tea Time
Controlling Media as an LD
Lighting Trivia
Alex cheats
Lighting Term of the Day
Additive and subtractive mixing ..read more
The Lighting Nerds
4y ago
We're still not dead yet!
Craig's back from Halsey, and Alex is done with his move. We're here to chew gum and make podcasts, and we're stock full of Juicy Fruit. Er, or something like that?
Since I know you're listening, hi, Drew!
Anyway, in this "ep":
Industry news
I lost the audio of our last show, which is why this has taken so long. Sorry.
Ayrton is making eyes at doing "standard" moving lights. That's kind of interesting.
grandMA 3. Yeah, of course we're gonna talk about it.
City Theatrical makes top hats for the X4.
The WholeHog 4 hardware refresh. Craig has some feelings ab ..read more
The Lighting Nerds
4y ago
It's the TWENTY-FIFTH EPISODE of Lighting Nerds! In this episode, we keep Alex around, joke (or do we??) about being corporate shills, and talk about festival lighting.
In this ep:
News Items
Alex sees the Portman lights, Craig still doesn't like them, exactly.
The 2018 Superbowl halftime show
The 2018 Winter Olympics - we can't review them, because we couldn't watch them. Shame on you, NBC.
TARM LaserGrid
Tea Time
Festival lighting! Building your rig, getting along with people. Perhaps we'll touch on programming for festivals later?
Lighting Quiz
Alex gets it right
Lig ..read more
The Lighting Nerds
4y ago
It's the one with Brad Schiller!
Fresh off the newly-reinstalled Silver Mac Tower of Audio is Episode 024 of The Lighting Nerds. In this "ep":
News Items
A new touring roadshow, from ENTECH. http://www.avnetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=128052
GrandMA 3 orders exceeding expectations, delays of up to eighteen months expected.
Portman releases the Pix31. The Lighting Nerds question its utility.
Martin introduces the RUSH MH11 Beam.
Interview
It's the one with Brad Schiller, legendary lighting designer, programmer, Renaissance Man, culinary master and inventor of the "Schiller ..read more