CARWYN

Put an audio interface in and put a speaker in the bar. Play the audio file from qlab, job done

I already have this set up but there are bells in our corridors that I would like to be triggered too

thanks

Hi All

I Want to be able to controll my bar bells via network commands has anyone done this before and if so what interface did they use. the gole is to be able to trigger it through Qlab

Thank you

Carwyn

Your rack sounds very similar to mine however mine has a second Mac mini with a home built changeover box to switch the sound card audio over in the event of failure (manual switch).

I’m assuming your rack panels are at the rear? If so I’d suggest you bring some usb’s round to the front for easy access. Also maybe a small 12v supply in there for a gooseneck light front and back?

One of my network ports has a POE supply in line before the rack panel to power my 5GHz access point.

Maybe for utility proposes stick a 5v supply in there to a couple of USB’s that are just power only - so should the need arise to charge something you’re not sticking a phone/camera/whatever in to an operational machine.

hi

patch pannel is at the back the sonnet rack mac has 2 usb ports on the front anyway but an extra couple of usb ports with just power is a good shout. also I have a led strip running round the front edge of the rack to light up the front area but am thiking of putting an extra powercon out as a power source out for a desk light or something similar cant really afford a secondary mac mini right now but may invest in a second in the future

Hi all

Im in the process of building up a front of house playback / recording rack and im after everyones opinions on what it should contain.

at the moment it contains the following

2 x focusrite saffire pro 40 for the ability for recording and playback this includes a 16 way analogue split patch panel

1 x mac mini (including the sonnet rack mac rackmount kit)

patch panel containing the following

midi in

midi out

firewire in x 2

network ports out x 4

network port in x 1

xlr outputs x 16 (focusrite outputs)

xlr inputs x 16 (focusrite inputs)

usb's x 4

xlr outputs x 2 (for headphone out of mac)

coax out x 2

coax in x 2

powerconn in x 1

powerconn out x 1

does anyone think I've missed anything it'll all be racked in a 4 u rack case

Thank You

Carwyn

you could give Stage Sound Services in cardiff they could probably quote for everything you need as they build their own flying frames and build their own flightcases

https://www.stagesoundservices.co.uk/

Hi

I have been looking into this for a while and based on a 1200 watt fixture the etc coloursource range packs a punch and have been very impressed the par version gives you a 91% saving based on a traditional parcan on energy usage and the colour mach based on lee filters is pretty close if your mix and maching on conventional and led and the light output is pretty equal to the parcans, I would seriously consider this range range includes a par, frennel and profile where the par is a fixture in itself and then the frennel and profile range are the same setup as the source four range where the lenses are interchangable and you can get whatever lenses you want (the current source four lenses do fit onto the coloursource light engine but its recommended to use the hd lenses for the led as the source four lenses does reduce the light output slightly), and I think price range the par is at around the £300 mark and the profile or frennel are around the £600 but check with your main dealer as for power consumption the par is 89w with everything running on max and the profile / frennel unit is 141 w with everything at full where if your colourmixing you will rearly have everything at full. the other good thing about these fixtures is you can still put them in 1 channel mode choose the colour temparature and use them as generics with gel in the front of them also

Thank You

Carwyn