James Remo

The Wahlberg DMX Winch range might present a possible solution. Easily hired from the usual suspects.

Their notes are extremely similar to the old £20 and the old £50 note - they have their blanks available for download here, I don't have photoshop but would be interested to find out if it would recognise these as notes and not open them...

This thread has some information and the contact details of a gentleman who was involved in the genesis of this desk, who was based in Edinburgh at the time of posting.

If you aren't trying to black out a window then you could try this lightweight drape from the german musical mega store -ready made 6m x 3m or even cheaper if you just want the fabric

It's discontinued but the bigger PreSonus Audiobox 1818vsl sounds like it would fit the bill, and initial bit of googling suggests it works with linux out of the box. There is one on the popular auction site for £250 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PreSonus-Audiobox-1818vsl/323901546382?hash=item4b6a095f8e:g:qroAAOSwJVxdbAlG

What about simplifying your setup by buying a Presonus AudioBox USB 96 and ditching the UA-101?

I would try blackout (and possibly hawthorns) in London. Can’t recommend either for this, as I’ve not used them for cleaning and repairs, but considering the amount of drape both rent out they must clean and repair their own stock, so that’s why I’d try them. If they don’t want to take on the job I’d ask them for a recommendation of someone who might.

As you are looking to assemble this from pre made units there are fixtures out there that are more akin to the laser emulation that was the original idea behind the Floyd Droid. The ADJ Ricochet being one example

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8b4q4CfxuYM

The Elation Sniper 2r being another

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYD2-3Ru2c0

Both employ a pair of mirrors per beam to create the fast scanning effects. This will obviously push your budget but you will achieve the effect you seek, where as the units you have in mind don't even colour mix, you only get beams of unmixed red, green, blue and white blobs.

 

Control wise the easy way to program effects like these is with a desk that does the work for you, something with an inbuilt effects generator. But again that's going to be more expensive

As good as the Chamsys offering is on pc, I couldn't live without real faders. Though the wing setups I've owned (both pc wing and maxi wing) have been great for fly shows, for a venue I'd go hardware over wing and computer every time. Too much chance of the laptop being used for other things, not a one box system.

 

The MQ 40 and MQ 60 are identical in size. Compared to a Quartz they are slightly wider, but not enough for complaint. You might be thinking of the MQ 80 which is more comfortable to operate with it's larger touch screen, but the size increase really isn't that huge. Having used the quick q 20 I would personally pick an MQ 60 over the quick q, but that may be my familiarity with the desk, and the ability to customise the way the desk works to suit my preferences, one of the strongest aspects of the MQ range IMHO.

 

I would throw the Hedgehog 4 in here as an option, a very powerful small desk that fits your requirements of 2 universes and a touch screen built in, a couple of AV companies I freelance for have them as their mid size desk and they work well for them. I can't comment on their price, but I hear there are deals to be had.

 

I'd be happy walking into a Quartz, Hedgehog or an MQ 60 in a venue, and would know I could easily get a show out of any of them. I could say the same for the Quick Q, the FLX, the colorsource AV, smartfade ML, and other older desks in the 2 universe and a bunch of faders category, but would need a little time to remember syntax and idiosyncrasies. Who is going to be using the desk? House crew only or touring crew?

If it's only used for work purposes then surely it's a 100% write off, no matter how you finance it?

 

Edit

https://www.gov.uk/expenses-if-youre-self-employed/office-property

 

Maybe, maybe not. Unless you aren't doing cash basis books, then as above. Either way your AIA (annual investment allowance) should cover it

For sale : A Roland V1-HD vision mixer, with PSU. Toured for 2 years in a peli case (case not included with sale), used only by me, in good working order. £500 collected from Brighton

A. There is no other way to link analog ins to outs, but you would obviously be going through the A-D and D-A processing to achieve this

Isn't that conversations in real life in general? The human condition rather than an online phenomenon?

Zr45 replaced the zr44. I’ve not got experience with the 45 as our fleet of zr44’s are still going strong. The major weakness is the dip switches, but as you can RDM the address if it won’t behave.

A lot of the security smoke gear is often rebranded Martin units, under the name of smoke cloak, the new name for Martin security smoke http://www.smokecloak.com/en/instant_protection.asp

My local bp garage even has an atomic in white built into the roof above the tills, to further disorientate the assailants.

 

You can get units rated for continuous output, such as the zr44, but they are obviously more expensive, but worthwhile in the long run, as they tend to outlast cheaper units, by at least the price ratio.

Not a cheap option, but the ferrofish units we use are rock solid. You won't get better than the Behringer for that price point

It’s like the Grand Hyatt walkway collapse , you need to think of all the forces you are placing on the system as a whole, as well as how those forces work as part of that system

Area 4 industries just announced acquisition of prolyte

Just to follow up on this; we ended up sourcing the flat plates from U bolt fixings. Worked exceptionally well, two days to prep and pretty much zero maintenance all summer.

 

Video with the reduced (5 drops only) setup

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYS2Z6bHbvE

The quick q doesn’t do command line programming. The physical desks do not have a number pad, selection of fixtures / channels is from the touchscreen. From the patch window you can swipe left and right in the bar with the boxes that represent channels, but from there you need to build them into a layout on the screen. You can then select channels from the touchscreen.

 

If you want command line style programming you will need a magic q desk, not a quick q

Bubbles are generally cheaper and easier to replace than ballasts / power supplies.

In rock and roll it’s not uncommon to have socca as : hot, dim, mixed hot/dim, motor power, motor control, mixed motor power/control (several standards) even noise boys use it for speaker runs. The potential for damage to equipment is much worse than feeding movers from dimmers, but the risk is mitigated by proper labelling and having and following plans. Personally I use a band of earth tape on socca ends to signify motor socca, a widely used technique.

When doing mixed hot / dim soccas on a patchable rack (such as an art 2k) I try to simplify the plug up, eg. Only using ways 5 & 6 on every socca as hot power. Even on a rushed corporate load in this can help avoid sending dimmed mains to fixtures, especially if you power up hot first to check your rig as mentioned above.

And 10m of truss of any sort is going to need at LEAST 3 pickups to support its own weight even without anything on there

 

There are plenty of trusses available that can easily cope with a 10m span, just supported at the ends, and still have capacity for load. A type, litec QL52, JTE supertruss, prolyte s52, total fabs OV40..... Consult the manufacturers load tables.

Granted the generic stuff off eBay probably wouldn’t fall into this list, but your statement above is incorrect. I’m not commenting on the situation the OP is in, just the statement about truss.

“Progressive rock will incur a 20% surcharge”

Projectionists and video engineers in particular are a breed that are suffering from the same issue as “mechanics” becoming “fitters”. I remember the precise nature of lining up banks of 2050’s with offset lenses and gemini or dove dissolve units, and barco 801’s and the like. Nowadays you don’t have to worry so much about the geometry, just over scan and warp the corners in with the corner keystone correction.

Get in touch with justlite and litton lane at the rock and roll end of the market, or magpie and conference services at the corporate end