Breaking into great lighting
Posted: 22 January 2005 at 03:21:41
Friday night’s show was awesome. The Sandbar was packed with excited, enthusiastic people. The club committed to at least one date in April to have SoN come back. By then, I’m sure the band will have a bunch of new tunes to play from the new album.
I was a little dissatisfied with how the lighting came out at Thursday’s show. For one thing, the lighting console was set up to do some funky things. One thing I didn’t like was that several of the dimmer channels controlled more than one color of lights.
So, I was determined to fix that before Friday’s show. I tried figuring out how to program the light board and couldn’t really figure it out. I did, however, manage to make it unusable.
It was about 9:00 at that time and the band was set to go on stage at 10. I went into the club manager’s office and googled for a manual of some kind for the console. I found one, but it was really small- like 6 pages.
I tried a couple of procedures in the manual to assign channels but they didn’t work. Finally, I found the procedure to reset the console bck to factory defaults. That solved everything.
Doing this, however, taught me how to program chase sequences into the console. Because of that, I was able to do some awesome lighting at Friday’s show. It rocked.
Earlier on Friday, the whole band went west to Avon, CO to do a taped interview with KZYR 97.7 radio. I took some pictures at the studio and they can be seen on the SoN site.