![]() ![]() When I started in college the dimmers the building had a rack of 24 dimmers and about 90-100 circuits between the onstage electrics and the FOH position. When I toured the college theater department in and saw the wall-sized "computer lighting board" I knew life was going to get much much better.įortunately, the racks of autotransformer dimmers were before my time. Three racks - eventually four - of six handle autotransformer dimmers. Growing up in a small town outside NYC I came up in equity summer stock theater where on the weekends we'd showcase a great many of the NYC dance companies as they began their summer tours. Of course I'd run into them as the third fixture from centerline in Someone's Rep Plot Somewhere, all the rest being Altman Off Axial fixtures and the wash would be lumpy as bad gravy. Not only lamps, but color as well they'd go through. The year after I graduated, they pulled that system and put in a control board. I love some of the older equipment, my first dimmer system in High School was the old rheostat handle dimmers, took up one whole wall of the backstage area. When one of the night clubs here in Baltimore closed, one of my friends rummaged through their old light equipment, so very old stuff in there. One of the discussions I came across on a theater board about it had mixed feelings, seems if it was benched correctly so everything lined up it was great, but if the lamp was off it would go through lamps like butter. ![]()
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