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Touring and Change Fixture Type questions

Hi all,

I'm wondering if someone could help me shed some light on a few things (Pardon the pun). I feel like it's not discussed anywhere or at least anywhere I can find! Would some of you mind sharing how you deal with touring with shows into different house rigs and merging those rigs into your already programmed shows? I have a few unanswered questions such as:

Do you have to recreate your groups everytime you move into a new venue?

If you have a rig that has more of one type of fixture than the day before, Which fixtures do you copy?

Do you have to recreate all your effects if you have something specific like a dim chase that goes from the middle of a truss outwards?

If someone could just talk me through how they go about getting on with a hog when they are touring into different venues/festivals with different rigs it would help me greatly!

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    For adding fixtures, your best bet is to "REPLICATE FIXTURES."

    So, as Cormac said, if you have 10 spots on a truss in your original show and the new one has 12…I would "replicate" the center 2 and have them on the "ends" of the truss so that it loops around (hope that makes sense).

    EX:
    101 / 102 / 103 / 104 / 105 / 106 / 107 / 108 / 109 / 110 on a truss
    I would replicate 105 and 106 (giving 12 total) and renumber them as 100 / 111 (again, depends on what point you want to add them in) - this keeps ALL of the programming for 105 and 106 and puts the "new" fixtures on the ends of the truss. Because they copied 105 and 106, they will be in the groups and effects…but you may have to do slight adjustments if needed.

    Does that help?

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    For adding fixtures, your best bet is to "REPLICATE FIXTURES."

    So, as Cormac said, if you have 10 spots on a truss in your original show and the new one has 12…I would "replicate" the center 2 and have them on the "ends" of the truss so that it loops around (hope that makes sense).

    EX:
    101 / 102 / 103 / 104 / 105 / 106 / 107 / 108 / 109 / 110 on a truss
    I would replicate 105 and 106 (giving 12 total) and renumber them as 100 / 111 (again, depends on what point you want to add them in) - this keeps ALL of the programming for 105 and 106 and puts the "new" fixtures on the ends of the truss. Because they copied 105 and 106, they will be in the groups and effects…but you may have to do slight adjustments if needed.

    Does that help?

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