sandall

Thanks both. I've just been looking at my email exchange with A&H after I put it in. Basically they couldn't (wouldn't?) offer anything between password-protected Admin, which was too restrictive, & (unprotected) User, which leaves everything vulnerable. I was hoping someone might have discovered an unofficial work-round. In the meantime it has been, as suggested, a case of keeping out-of-sight copies of the wanted scene. The church users are totally non-technical, & seem incapable of reading even the largest-font Dymo labels about checking they have the right scene loaded, & about powering-down before hitting the wall-switch (or alternatively not leaving the whole system powered-up all week with no ventilation).

If you are looking for an electronics project, then fine. If you just want a working comms system for the occasional show, then hiring-in a made-for-purpose system is a no-brainer ("UK" is a rather wide "location" to suggest a hire firm local to you).

An interesting read. I'd forgotten how cheap blacklight tubes are - possibly cheaper than standard 4' tubes (if you can manage to find them).

A church I'm distantly involved with has a Qu16, using 2 of the Mix busses to feed 2 separate speaker systems for mics & music. The "default" setup is saved as a Scene, which works fine for the regular operators, but from time to time a visiting knob-twiddler will manage to overwrite this default Scene, which is when I get a phone call. Does anyone know a way of locking a Scene, without also locking the channel faders? (A&H introduced Permissions in v.1.4, but they basically work as all or nothing)

I was assuming that even a new showtec would break the budget (& that DB25 outputs might put off the non-technical)

If not, it should be easy to add a demultiplexer to your dimmers, but (alarm bells ringing) if your Strand desk is feeding old Strand dimmers they probably work on 0v to -10v, rather than 0v to +10v, in which case you probably need to look for something 2nd-hand.

Interesting, I checked my A300(?) series TOA ((mains + 12V DC) & the fuse is in series with the DC socket, but it sounds that the Inkel is like your TOA circuit, so it's probably 1 or more o/p transistors gone short-circuit.

Indeed it's labelled "DC 24V", which doesn't explain why it's blowing when on mains power. No experience of this amp (& can't find anything useful online), but the DC fuse should just sit between the DC input socket & the output of the power-supply, so with no 24V connected there shouldn't be any current flowing (even if something has gone short-circuit). Does the amp work if you just remove the fuse?

Would it be worth looking out for a 2nd-hand Zero88 or similar desk for the "non-experts" to use?

Looking again, they look more like 1W or 2W, like the 100R one on the left. The position of the brown band on the toasted ones suggests a multiplier of 10. Unfortunately the Techpro PSU cct diagram doesn't give a value for the appropriate one.

If all else fails, dabbing an AA battery works just fine.

Someone here should be able to give you a definitive answer, but in the meantime - They will be quite low-value, but look like 1/4W, so maybe 10s of Ohms, & presumably acted as fuses when the supply was shorted out. Why don't you bypass them for the time being & see whether the belt-packs spring into life?

A friend of mine used to hump around a load of large CRT TVs for the local am-dram musicals, which all used an off-stage MD & band.

Sorry, crossed-wires🙁 - I was thinking of a using a digital TV system for audio show-relay, which would mean all word cues would have to marked-up about 2 words early!!!

It does to the sound op, if he/she is behind glass, especially if sharing a room with lighting.

Sounds like what highways contractors use for holding things down (which they then leave behind in the nearest hedge!!😥)

Well, maybe. Back in the day I used to record all the musicals I worked on, & flog audio cassettes to the cast (though whether they were played more than once, or indeed if at all, I wouldn't know). But this was before every waking-breath has to be recorded & shared with the rest of the world (which of course will include the licence & copyright police). The only video I made was for the playwright, so copyright wasn't an issue. As mentioned above, be very careful who you share anything with that might end up online.

Presumably they are still hand-carved out of ingots of precious metal, but the gnomes now demand executive pay rates🤔

Possibly just wants 4 mics across the front (not an uncommon way to record a choir), but trying to do it with 2 stereo recorders. Synching up using something like Audition might work, then panning the LH recorder tracks to hard-left & centre-left, & the others to centre-right & hard-right; all a bit tedious to do & may well sound horrible! Better to use 4 mics & a 4-channel mixer & record the stereo output, if you have the gear. Otherwise just use one central recorder.

I certainly preferred the price!!

Presumably started off life as a Balance control for a(n unbalanced) stereo source

If you were that close to the stage were you maybe overloading the receivers (XSWs are probably not as robust as G2s & G3s)?

Wickes 18mm 8'x4' is still £40.

My 64-bit laptop seems quite happy running 32-bit software (& even old DOS programmes). Have you tried running it in compatibility mode?

If it's a feedback resistor it's probably got DC across it, hence the crunchy sound (my old Seck mixer used the same technique for the mic trim-pots). You've presumably already tried a squirt of cough-medicine?