#Onstage desk install#
#Onstage desk manual#
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This year's winner, a singer and violinist from Duluth, Minn. Our Tiny Desk Contest, for example, forges small communities as friends get together to make a music video in hopes of playing a Tiny Desk Concert. I get more out of connecting people to music than critiquing it. If you have any questions or comments about “Wide” mode, put them in the box below.Watch Tiny Desk Contest winner Gaelynn Lea perform on stage at First Avenue in Minneapolis with Lucius YouTube It is useful for controlling those cheap LED PARs that you persuaded someone to let you hire for the next show.

#Onstage desk install#

Unfortunately, setting your lighting desk to “Wide” does not instantly install a bunch of extra dimmers or buy more lanterns. Hey, if we are going to that, let’s break out the lime or the saltwater dimmers! Lighting desk manufacturers are just trying to provide new functions while retaining the ability to do things “your old way”.

#Onstage desk manual#

Much better to take 5 minutes reading the user manual and getting to grips with the memory stack or submasters, if you have the facility. Well, using your lighting desk in crossfading “Wide” mode is not ideal. “Did I press Store? Or was that the last cue? Oh, bother.” Sounds like a recipe for cock-up, to me. When the lighting state is being output to the stage, press “store” and reset the faders again. Next cue, crossfade to your new reset faders to bring up the new scene.

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This latches your scene to a A/B master, leaving the channel faders free to reset for the next state. Set up your scene using the faders in “Wide” mode and hit some kind of “store” button. Modern lighting desks that have a “Wide” mode also have ability to operate your show in 2 preset mode by using a temporary memory. Ok, you say, but how can I do the whole, 2 presetty crossfading thing when I don’t have a second bank of faders? Some desks also have a button that toggles a preset between 1 -24 or 25 – 48 (or whatever the capacity of your desk is – the Jester 24 / 48 can wide to 48 channels, surprise!!).Ĭan I use “Wide” mode to crossfade between scenes? If your lighting desk has “Wide” mode, the setting is usually either a button on the console or changed in the User Settings. How do I set “Wide” mode on my lighting desk?

Usually, the top bank of faders gives you control over dimmers 1 -24, while the bottom preset handles 25 – 48. “Wide” mode is a setting that doubles the capacity of your faders by changing two sets of 24 faders into one set of 48. Get this many channels for your lighting desk for nothing. The extra function that modern lighting desks have is “Wide” mode – a handy idea that was originally only available on a few consoles but is now quite common. Hell, you can even use an Avolites Pearl as a 2-preset but…. A Jester 24 / 48 has two banks of 24 faders and, despite all the additional capabilities of a memory control, you can still use it as a 24 way 2 preset desk. There is no substitute for being able to push up a real fader when controlling “generics” (lanterns controlled by dimmers). More complex memory lighting controllers, such the Zero88 Jester, still have the useful function of 2 presets of faders to control your dimmers. Simple – 48 faders, 24 channel of control. Crossfade between the two presets and you have a cue. One preset outputs the scene on stage while the other bank of faders are set to the next lighting state. Channels 1 – 24 on a 24 way 2-preset desk.

When lighting desks had little more than two banks of faders (known as a 2-preset), the top and bottom banks both controlled the same set of channels.

Wide mode is useful because it doubles the number of control channels on a small lighting desk – great when you add some extra kit to your usual lighting rig. An explanation of the “Wide” mode that is found on a range of lighting consoles including budget models.