Hey Folks,
This weekend's first show since Dance Schools was a mildly famous guitar virtuoso requiring much more subtle lighting control than the previous month. I had the ten Eos faders loaded as Subs, with six more subs on our 10x2 Fader Wing. Very simple and foolproof. Unfortunately, I had a very annoying problem with my Fader Wing Subs. It seems that the handles were having trouble keeping control of their Subs.
Here's my best description: When the Subs are happy, they show solid green LED. When the Sub is at a different level than the handle, the LED blinks and is unresponsive to the handle until the handle returns to that exact percentage. Well I was getting blinking LEDs at the drop of a hat. Easily 75% of the times I tried to move Sub handles, one or more would leave a Sub behind.
Imagine starting a ten second manual crossfade between two systems on Subs. Your eyes on the stage, you see system A come up but after five seconds, you realize that System B isn't going down. You look down, see a blinking light, your handle is at about 35% but the Sub level on the LCD is 87%. You glance up to notice the half-executed pile of mud you've gotten stuck on stage. Now all you can do is take that fader to what looks like about 87% and wiggle it around until it picks up control again.
Like I said, this was happening a lot, sometimes four at a time. Has anyone else experienced this. It didn't seem so bad during Dance Schools but I was slamming them around a lot faster then. I ended up just using those faders on another page of the Eos which was no fun as I hadn't planned for it.
Speaking of Fader Pages. I would like to repeat my wish for Fader Pages on the Direct Selects. I want to be able to label them and go from one to another with one finger. This could be with a seperate section of DSs or just Macros. Also, there doesn't seem to be a way to change pages on the Wing without also changing pages on the Eos.
Just some notes, B
