As primarily a technical director, and newly a theater major, my experience at the helm of an EOS console was very limited. In the past, I just haven’t had a practical need to learn EOS because I’m typically building scenery. In taking Lighting Technology this semester, one of my main goals was to change that …
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Halestorm Meets The MA
By: Wayne Murphy Jr. This week our assignment was to program a 2-3 minute song on a console that we had never used before. Some were assigned Hog, or Element, I was assigned the GrandMA 2. We use the GrandMA on PC with a command wing that was bought to go along with it so …
Programing on the MA? For me, the EOS guy?
Well, It happened and it was quite fun actually. I have attached some pictures from the project (these are images of the visualizer). Advantages: Its another board, and knowing the basics of many different consoles is a huge bonus. Also, being able to understand the syntax of a different kind of console has been really …
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Programming on the grandMA visualizer
So for this project We had to choose a short song and light it using a visualizer. I chose to do my project in the grandMA on PC software. Probably one of the biggest struggles I had was getting the visualizer to talk with the programming software. It took about an hour of troubleshooting and …
Programming the GrandMA 2
Trying to program the GrandMA 2 proved to be an interesting challenge. The most challenging part about learning this console was learning the syntax since its so different from what we’re used to. For example: instead of hitting “Enter”, you hit “Please”. Everything saves automatically, which is really nice in theory, but its nerve wracking …
Programming with the Avolites Titan 1
Trevor and myself were able to use the Titan 1 by Avolites. We very quickly discovered that this board and software is made for operator ease. Within an hour and a half we had our rig up and running like it was nothing. Some of the issues we encountered while setting up was; One. we …
Ernst Ebrecht and the GrandMA
MA Lighting was founded in 1983 by Michael Adenau in Paderborn Germany. In 1985 he became partners with a software specialist named Ernst Ebrecht. While Michael was the visionary behind MA products it was Ernst who made the ideas possible. Ernst’s first control desks were the Lightcommander 24 and the Lightcommander 48. The main feature …
Augustine-Jean Fresnel
Augustine – Jean Fresnel was an engineer and physicist who lived from 1788-1827 that proved very important to improving our earl understanding of light. At first, Fresnel was considered to be a very slow learner, as he could not read until age eight. After attending school for the first time at the age of twelve, …
Waste Basket Wash Fixture
So our first full project was to build a light to the best of our ability on a shoestring budget, I unfortunately had to take a grace period on this but here are my results!! When i first started this project i wanted to model my fixture after a birdie, a small almost par almost …
George Izenour
George Izenour, with over 27 patents, had many significant contributions to the lighting technology world, the most significant being the first electronic dimmer. Electronic dimmers lead to the ability to use remote controls which was a huge breakthrough because it meant that the operator would be able to see the stage. This system allowed the …
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