Hey folks ? The title of this post might sound quite confusing at first, but let me elaborate. How do the lighting guys in the FOH know all the things like current BPM, next song and when the drop comes (which sometimes is getting quite hard to predict with more modern genres ?)? Do they use some sort of remote screen sharing to see what the DJ is seeing, or are they using some sort of API? Would love to get some insights ? Thanks in advance everyone and have a nice day! submitted by /u/RealJamo [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

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Hey there! I'm currently on the search for some budget moving head lights for the school I work at. I've been here for two years and have found myself learning a lot (started as a complete beginner), but an area I haven't found myself exploring yet is buying lights and learning recognisable brands (I continue to use the lights we had when I got here). I'm honestly not sure how much information I need to provide, so I can edit the post if necessary, but my boss has asked me to search for some movers for the next academic year. Our budget isn't set in stone, but I reckon it wouldn't be incredib ..read more

Hi there, lovely people! I need some help regarding the above mentioned issue. Here is some background: My band plays already with click track and backings using reaper. Now we wanna ad a lightshow to our songs. We bought 4 led bars, and the enttec dmx pro thingy. I have set up Emu from enttec and made a few programs/banks and scenes. I can find the emu vst in reaper, so yeah. But i dont know how to tell it to start a specific scene from a program. I read the emu instructions, apparently i can set up the vst to controll single fader, which is nice, but a bit too much for a beginner like me. I ..read more

Anybody as this kind of screen when booting their Etc Element 2? Don't know what to do and I need to make it work fast of course... submitted by /u/LucidityFree [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

trying to find versatile fixtures to patch in and program in MA3. mixable colors, gobo wheel/rotation, relatively wide focus range, and maybe 360 tilt (not required). submitted by /u/Key_Cabinet_9882 [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

I have a small rig in my bar. 4 tight beam moving heads, 4 wider moving heads with gobos, 4 different lasers, strobe, butterfly. I want to do light shows live,so want to program a set of midi buttons. Now I'm wondering is it best to setup something like one button triggers one effect for the whole rig and have a bunch of pre programmed effects or set buttons to control colours, others to control movements other's to control gobos etc etc so it would be possible to make up things in real time with different button combinations. Advantage of the first is that it's easy to do live and the effect ..read more

You know after a show when DJ’s sometimes are like “I want to take a cute selfie with the crowd real fast” I usually go to all white and blast the beams at the audience to get a clear view. Jw what others do? :) submitted by /u/SnooRegrets3555 [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

...instead of stepping down from 120v. I'm gutting my kitchen and had the thought of running a dedicated low volt light circuit. Start with a transformer down to 12 or 24v, run low voltage cable and use fixtures made without internal step down circuitry. I don't even know if such product exists but it sounds logical. If I'm starting from scratch why would I run 120 volts around the ceiling only to step it down at each fixture? And with the price of copper today.... submitted by /u/atlgeo [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

Im doing augmen3d setup and need to put barrles on a few lights to narrow the beem. How do i do this? submitted by /u/timmy30459 [visit reddit] [comments ..read more