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  1. Would it be worth trying a dbx Driverack PA2 with the dbx mic. If you manage it from a tablet it looks very flexible and easy to use.
  2. Thanks all. It looks as if projectors with SDI input are several leagues above ours. We now have fibre HDMI cables to reach our domestic-level projectors. Using SDI adapters would be an alternative but adds more cost and complexity. If we invest in the Mac Studio with simple Thunderbolt to HDMI adapters we can see how that goes - and then add the FX4 or similar at a later date.
  3. Thanks for the comments. Figure 53/QLab have confirmed that Jon's recommendation of a Mac Studio would do the job. The Hyperdeck option is intriguing but keystoning or shifting the video is often needed and QLab (and to an extent SCS) can do this. I can now go to my Board with a proposals. Thanks all.
  4. So the Mac Studio could "Connect up to 5 displays in total"; so very close to the bleeding edge. So this one would be on the right lines? Apple Mac Studio, Apple M1 Max Chip, 10C CPU, 24C GPU, 32GB UM, 512GB SSD - Silver. Thanks for help.
  5. Thanks Jon... I will dig around on those options. Alister... My team are always on the end of the Director's sharp sticks - which can mean 5 different videos worst case. But Jon's Datapath splitter would mean we could stretch the Mac Studio to clone one output to more projectors if they could find somewhere to hang them. Thanks
  6. My amateur theatre is considering moving from Windows PCs and SCS to Macs and Qlab. The main objective is to get better support for video projectors. We have found this to be a frustrating challenge with Windows PCs. My thinking is to use three Mac Mini M1 8 GB / Storage: 512 GB SSD with Thunderbolt 3 to HDMI adapters so we can drive one control screen and five projectors. Does this make sense? I do not envisage we will go much beyond HD standard as the costs per projector spiral upwards rapidly when you factor in say 6000 lumens. Are we crazy (I know the cost is going to be £4500 when we add in a macbook to loan out to designers)? Are we just going to hit different gotchas on Macs? Thanks
  7. For our theatre the plus with SCS and PCs is that old laptops (donated!) are easy to loan out to the designers who need one. We then load the shows into our fixed PCs. A tip for SCS users... If you build the show on a laptop with just one pair of outputs but your theatre PC has sound card with four pairs, say, duplicate the laptop devices in SCS - upstage, downstage, front auditorium and rear auditorium in our case. Then when you copy the show in, all the settings match.
  8. I've got a couple and they are ok. Not hifi but seem powerful enough for a small band if their combos are on amp stands so their volume is manageable.
  9. Thanks all. I have looked at simple circuit diagrams but not for 40 years. So the explanation that the zone switching is elsewhere explains why the various combinations I tried were not affected by the switches. Yes; I bought it, so the best solution is to rewire it. Zone 1 will go to a mixer - mixing the signal with a feed of stage sound from a condenser rifle mic so that needs phantom power. I could put the transformer - I presume it is tiny - in the MICPAT box. Or use a phantom power adapter for the condenser mic and switch off the mixer phantom power unless that will come back into the mixer via the condenser mic? It would be nice to add power to illuminate the LEDs. I guess starting with 5v is worth a shot. Thanks again.
  10. Can anyone help me to wire an apart MICPAT-2 to XLR so we can route SM paging to a m ixer for backstage and separately to FOH? The spec says the connections can be balanced. Will the mic be safe from phantom power? Thanks! http://tlaconsultancy.co.uk/images/sound/micpat-2.jpg
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