smeggie Posted March 9, 2005 Share Posted March 9, 2005 and you can still run the show with the go buttons and submasters. genius. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tour monkey Posted March 9, 2005 Share Posted March 9, 2005 Indeed, great for conferences! Ive heard but not seen that the new "Frog 2" has an updated version or something!? Munky :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Locksmith Posted March 9, 2005 Share Posted March 9, 2005 Quite correct, and I would recommend programming the palettes as they make life simpler once you have them set up. They are relatively easy to set up too, especially if you only have one fixture type. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tour monkey Posted March 9, 2005 Share Posted March 9, 2005 Wow, I (a noiseboy) had some useful info towards a lighting topic!!! Chuffed! :o Munky :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_R Posted March 9, 2005 Share Posted March 9, 2005 As smeggie said, the manual really is great.Have you downloaded the Phantom Frog from the Zero 88 Website? Its a virtual frog program. What I found good when learning the Frog range was to have the Phantom frog with the manual reading and trying as I went.The best way to learn really is to just play with the kit! I learn't how to use the Fat Frog in about half a day (and im a noiseboy! :) ).Hope this helps! Good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smeggie Posted March 9, 2005 Share Posted March 9, 2005 ah, forgot about that - download it and, if you know your patch setup, you can pre plot a fair bit of it all. [also, you can make a start with getting across the road :)] tis a great little OLE - you can save the plotted show to a disk too [if I remember correctly] have fun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mostlyharmless Posted March 9, 2005 Author Share Posted March 9, 2005 As smeggie said, the manual really is great.Have you downloaded the Phantom Frog from the Zero 88 Website? Its a virtual frog program. What I found good when learning the Frog range was to have the Phantom frog with the manual reading and trying as I went.The best way to learn really is to just play with the kit! I learn't how to use the Fat Frog in about half a day (and im a noiseboy! :o ).Hope this helps! Good luck!<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Thanks, ill go look at that. I love the way you all make the excuse of being a noiseboy, ill use the excuse and im just a bassist who pretends to know what hes doing :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tour monkey Posted March 9, 2005 Share Posted March 9, 2005 Thats quite amusing, I'm a bass player too!! But not just a frustrated muso before anyone comments!!! :o again!! Munky :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mostlyharmless Posted March 10, 2005 Author Share Posted March 10, 2005 Well they've been changed to robe pro washes now due to a change in hire company and cheaper prices, but im sure the same still applys. We're still getting a fat frog. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPete Posted March 10, 2005 Share Posted March 10, 2005 Had the opportunity to use 3x Robe 250s last week (first venture into moving lights) run off a Strand 520. Needless to say, I ended up with the manual from Robe's website (VERY helpful), but due to the fixture files on the 520 being screwed up, we only used them with the Submasters, which was fun... So yeah, try Robe's website for the manuals & other handy info :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mostlyharmless Posted March 10, 2005 Author Share Posted March 10, 2005 Had the opportunity to use 3x Robe 250s last week (first venture into moving lights) run off a Strand 520. Needless to say, I ended up with the manual from Robe's website (VERY helpful), but due to the fixture files on the 520 being screwed up, we only used them with the Submasters, which was fun... So yeah, try Robe's website for the manuals & other handy info :D<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Should I go forthe robe 250xt spot or wash? This is for a dance show, just two of them to just add effects to the fixed lights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPete Posted March 10, 2005 Share Posted March 10, 2005 It would depend on what the actual fixtures are! In principal if it's the same model number and there's the option for spot or wash I presume that the DMX values and such-like would be the same, but cannot guarantee that. Also, the 250s just happen to be what I used. If this is what you will be hiring in or not, I do not know!Best bet would be to contact the person who is hiring in the equipment to ask the model number of them.Feel free to PM me if need be :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mostlyharmless Posted March 10, 2005 Author Share Posted March 10, 2005 It would depend on what the actual fixtures are! In principal if it's the same model number and there's the option for spot or wash I presume that the DMX values and such-like would be the same, but cannot guarantee that. Also, the 250s just happen to be what I used. If this is what you will be hiring in or not, I do not know!Best bet would be to contact the person who is hiring in the equipment to ask the model number of them.Feel free to PM me if need be :D<{POST_SNAPBACK}>It is this:http://www.robe.cz/default.aspx?contentid=...b2-3e356457ee73or this:http://www.robe.cz/default.aspx?contentid=...B2-3E356457EE73 I think im going to go with the spot, due to it having morecolours, gobos, prisms etc. which is all we are really using them for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThaiLD Posted April 5, 2005 Share Posted April 5, 2005 Robe is nice... nice output and good price to match... I know alot of LDs who use Frog for small concerts and would use nothing else... After frog its a big leap to Hog2 or 3... HEY I never knew Frog 2 was out yet... haven't been following the frog line much... Give it a few years and LDs will start specifying them for big rigs (rather than saying xspot, mac2000 and NOTHING ELSE) but then end up with MAC600, 550, 500 and 250 krypton because nothing else is available haha...!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomo Posted April 7, 2005 Share Posted April 7, 2005 HEY I never knew Frog 2 was out yet... haven't been following the frog line much...I didn't think it was!They had the hardware pretty much fixed by PLASA 2004, but they had barely begun on the software - I expect they got a whole stack of ideas for things to implement from the show, which was probably much the main idea of taking it there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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