Don’t Ask Me Why – It Just Rocked
I'm not good at describing experiences. If you ask me how many amps flows through a load at a certain voltage I might be able… Read More »Don’t Ask Me Why – It Just Rocked
Read More »Don’t Ask Me Why – It Just Rocked
Repairs, repairs, and troubleshooting fun.
Well this week past week for me was all about home depot and repairs, which triggered me to start saving cash for a few new consoles because of specific things that have happened with gear recently. So let’s start with what I had on my plate first shall we? I had to fix burnt out par 38 bulb sockets by soldering in new cables and new sockets. The 38s are a huge part of my show because their wide angle beam covers a lot of my drummer’s kit and it looks pretty damn good shining off the chrome while I’m hitting bumps with him playing. Next were the electric heads for the AC cables. Well as you all are aware grounds are the first to eat it on AC cable so our sound engineer and I were soldering on new heads on the dinner table. Hah, I never mentioned to you all before that the sound guy and I live with the band in a ranch house here in Cave Creek, Arizona.
Read More »Get the Gear You Know
Once you know what you will be doing and how long you will have, it is vital to ask about the lighting equipment and the… Read More »Get the Gear You Know
Read More »Why use a binary preset number?
Having a this level of control over the video images used in a show is highly efficient and attractive for many reasons. First of all,… Read More »Why use a binary preset number?
Read More »This is Your Wake Up Call
Two words: click here -> www.scottmcleod.org/didyouknow.wmv Any questions?
Read More »Eye Candy
Today I am in charge of eye candy. This involves throwing different pieces of media onto soft LED panels and some V9 hidef video modules that Nocturne has brought down to WTTW's TV studio in Chicago.
Read More »Scheduling and Walking The Line
OK, so now that I have the introduction out of the way. I am going to speed up with the more recent things I’ve been up to. Recently I’ve been running some bigger shows through outside production. I got to run a great club show with an LSC Maxim XL console 6 Clay Paky mirrors and 6 Martin 250 washes with 200 pars at The Rams Head Live in Baltimore, MD. They have a fun rig and I think the pat pad on the Maxim was fun. You can pretty much use this pad like a touch screen but instead you can assign parameters by moving your finger right or left across a certain part of the pat pad.
Know Your Way Around
The most successful production designers I know are whizzes with the computer — CAD, visualization, rendering and animation for starters — they’re great communicators, they… Read More »Know Your Way Around
Read More »Keeping Your Old Numbers
Being found is important in our biz. I think that’s why people keep their old email addresses and phone #’s. I got a couple calls this week from cell phones with area codes I recognized as San Francisco and Atlanta. However, both of these calls originated from friends I know who now live in Seattle.
Read More »Saturday Night
I just spent 90 minutes jumping up and down behind a lighting console. I wasn’t angry. I was lighting a punk rock band.
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High School Auditorium Gets High-Tech Facelift
Complete refurbishment, acoustic overhaul and state-of-the-art lighting and video installations: it sounds like improvements made for a theatrical company of national significance, not a high school auditorium in Kentwood, Mich. But sometimes star treatment is found in strange places — and East Kentwood High School’s refurbished high school now contains technology and planning that puts it on par with many of the country’s top performance venues.
Read More »American Audio Visual Center, Inc.
Who:
American Audio Visual Center, Inc. (AAVC). Within AAVC is Team Staging.
What:
Audio-visual and multimedia staging company providing turn-key presentation, multimedia and staging support for corporations, producers, meeting planners, associations, product launches, corporate meetings and events.