Summary: <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> This week on the Podcast, we have our Q+A Tuesday! This is when I get to answer your questions and walk through the thought process.<br> <br> <br> <br> If you’re new here and you’re not sure how or where to get started with your lighting be sure to take this <a href="http://learnstagelighting.com/quiz">Quiz</a> and I will send you a Guide based on your answers to help get you pointed in the right direction. <br> <br> <br> <br> <a href="http://learnstagelighting.com/quiz">How to Begin with Lighting Quiz</a><br> <br> <br> <br> Lighting News (1:20)<br> <br> <br> <br> We have some exciting things happening in Germany this week where the Pro Light and Sound Trade Show is happening. This is at least one of the biggest trade shows in the industry and they are announcing a lot of new products.<br> <br> <br> <br> One of the products announced is from <a href="https://www.learnstagelighting.com/how-do-i-begin-with-onyx/">ONYX</a>, the Dylos system. This is their new pixel mapping and they are hoping to release it within the year.<br> <br> <br> <br> ChamSys announced a cool new feature for there console, a Timeline. It’s basically where you can bring in audio and then bring in different lights as well as cues to play with it. You can read more about it here: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/chamsys/photos/a.10150293037399733/10156749460979733/?type=3&theater">ChamSys Timeline</a>.<br> <br> <br> <br> Lastly, a new light was announced, <a href="https://www.usedlighting.com/lounge/videos/clay-paky-xtylos">Clay Paky XTYLOS</a>. This is a beam light that is powered by a laser source! There’s a video available showing the product’s features.<br> <br> <br> <br> Main Segment (9:15)<br> <br> <br> <br> If you have a question you would like to share be sure to submit it here: <a href="https://www.learnstagelighting.com/contact/">Contact Form</a> and there will be an option to allow you to leave your voice message. <br> <br> <br> <br> Bob (9:28): Love this site! I was a production pro from the late 70s through the mid 90s. I have recently been doing creative direction for 2 sets of friends who have bands. for the last year, I have been using an elation scene-setter 24 in 2×12 mode with small 4 channel dimmer packs with a mixture of small pars with retrofitted LED lamps in them so I could use “real color!” I am a creature of habit and I hate hate hate that RGB pink haze that seems to always be there with earlier generation and cheap RGB pars.<br> <br> <br> <br> Anyway, I am ditching the conventional lights and getting 18 Chauvet slimpar 56, 4 ADJ 25 watt pocket pro and I guess I’ll keep 2 dimmer packs and 8 par 46 conventional for front specials. All of this happens in bars/clubs with ceilings 8′ to 11′. Also decided to go with ENTTEC DPRO 2U for control.<br> <br> <br> <br> What do you think about that gear? Keep in mind I come from the school of thought that you want to use as little light as possible so you get the audience’s pupils to dilate as much as possible when watching a show…<br> <br> <br> <br> Bob is one of our <a href="https://learnstagelighting.com/labs">Learn Stage Lighting Labs</a> members and he booked a call with me to go over his set up. We went over his rig today and it’s really good.<br> <br> <br> <br> When your lighting to live music, keep in mind that context of the music. In this case with classical music, I wouldn’t use moving lights because it sets the atmosphere of what it looked when that music was being played in the ’70s. The same goes for more modern music as well.<br> <br> <br> <br> Andrew (12:28): I am using Chamsys MagicQ for building my lighting show, and I’m using Ableton Live to run click & tracks for my band.
