Having said it was an awesome night - there was one huge, glaringly obvious problem to me this evening ......my lighting.
Now, as already mentioned, I've been in this venue before (another banging night I might add), but on that occasion used my wirelessly controlled LOVE letters which went, well.....a bit funny on the night. I didn't think anything more of it after bringing them home to test and finding they worked OK. I just put it down to one of those things.
Since that night, I've gone over to LightRider to control my lighting....everything is wireless and it works a treat....apart from tonight
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For some reason, I just couldn't get anything to talk to each other no matter what I did (including using different dongles, transmitters and my backup tablet)....NOTHING worked! EEEEK! I literally exhausted all of my backup options!
Now with the LightRider kit, there IS an option to hard-wire from the dongle to the fixtures (and yes...I did that). There ISN'T an option to go from the iPad/Kindle Fire direct to the dongle though....and THIS is where the problem was. The signal for some reason was being interrupted and worked for a couple of seconds and then died.
Turns out the photographer (who I know very well and who also carries a hell of a lot of backup kit) was also having problems with his wireless flashes....they weren't flashing (that said, he got some absolutely brilliant shots of the evening under a lot of pressure due to failing kit!).
So with all backups exhausted, it's sound to light mode on all of my fixtures. Being Chauvet based, the S2L programs aren't actually too bad, apart from the Intimidators which go like the proverbial blind flying rodents from the underworld! Hey ho....it's the best I can do with no other options.