Official sign-up thread for the 5th annual SELEM in Newton, NC - August 19th - 21st.

[daguin]

I will arrive at 15:20 ( 03:20PM)
at charlotte international airport.
On the 18th
Is someone able to pick me up?
I need to be able for sure.

I am scheduled to fly in to Charlotte (CLT) arriving at 4:45pm on Thursday.
I will be picking up a rental car
It is a "full size" car so there should be room for a couple of more of people with luggage

Peace,
dave

[masterpj]

Ok flight booked and a new laser laptop
Made of nice chrome (setting stuff op right now) installers are also on the HDD..
I have a 2TB HDD with me that is a complete backup of this computer *main 3D and laser computer*
*this does not even include my externall HDD data, but that is not of importance.
Got a brand new mouse too and a new bag

[buffo]

does anyone have an XLR snake? also a folding table? I would like to setup the mixer off the stage since it seems like the stage is going to be crowded

I think Mario (Ragdoll) will have plenty of XLR cable, as he is the guy who is setting up the sound system this year. Feel free to send him a PM and discuss the layout though. (Note: Brad (Bradfo69) is also involved in the sound setup, so you might want to copy him in on any PM's.)

I like the idea of trying to set up a mixer and a master laser control station in the back, and that was my plan for this year. But we'll have to see how much room we have to work with back there. I think it's actually going to be more crowded back there than on stage this year. (This year we'll have the curtians closed, so we can arrange the tables more efficiently, but there isn't much room at the back of the auditorium.)

Which why I keep dropping the hint to have a single "show control station" power & LAN drop off-stage, as well.

Your hints have not gone unnoticed. There are some issues with a single control station layout. Not everyone is running the LD-2000, remember. So the master control station will need to change when someone wants to run an FB3 show, or a show running off a sound card DAC, for example. We'll have lots of those this year, and we need to be flexible.

Having everything on stage makes it easy to swap cables, since everything is right there. Putting a master control station at the back of the house complicates things. Still, I'm willing to give it a try this year.

I think we've gotten big enough that we need to think about treating the SELEM auditorium like we were putting on a show for customers (we certainly have the gear!!) -

Again, we need to remember that we have to accomodate multiple playback formats. It may be that we'll have to swap out the control compuer a few times... I honestly don't know how it will work out just yet.

A commercial show doesn't have these problems, because 1) you would be using the same type of controller for everything, and 2) the entire show would be scripted in advance. SELEM is never going to be organized like that.

Adam

[drm916]

EDIT: Hakzaw seems you can pick up two guys in Georga. DRM916 and Kevin Harris, AKA Laserock.
Or DRM916 see if you can pick up Laserock

Not sure if I am headed out on thursday night or friday morning. Will depend on my work schedule.

Laserock.. what is your schedule looking like?

[flecom]

I think Mario (Ragdoll) will have plenty of XLR cable, as he is the guy who is setting up the sound system this year. Feel free to send him a PM

I sent him a PM, have not heard back yet

I am bringing a USB over CAT5 extender so I can leave my FB3 on stage and have my FB3 laptop at the back of the room

[polishedball]

Have you more than one? can this same approach be used for a SCDAC?

I sent him a PM, have not heard back yet

I am bringing a USB over CAT5 extender so I can leave my FB3 on stage and have my FB3 laptop at the back of the room

[flecom]

Have you more than one? can this same approach be used for a SCDAC?

yes I will be bringing a sound card dac too

we can plug them all in to the USB extender via a USB hub on stage

[flecom]

thanks to daguin for the load I picked up one of these

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...=STRK:MEWNX:IT

also picked up some of these since I know a lot of you guys are using RCA connectors (boooo)

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...=STRK:MEWNX:IT

try and have (long) cables from whatever your output is to XLR male or RCA male

[steve-o]

Damn! I was on the other end of the cord (playing guitar) when the sound/light-man was doing all of his wizadry. (I should have been paying more close attention to what he was doing.) The lights were in my eyes. I did do some pyrotechnic stuff tho .. I might be needing lessons in DMX, DACs and lighting software and such if any of you-all would be so kind .. lessee.. the galvos connect to the amps.. the amps connect to the . hmm .. DAC .. the dac goes thru a printer port (?) to the laptop loaded with spaghetti or pangolin or summatt .. ?

[allthatwhichis]

lessee.. the galvos connect to the amps.. the amps connect to the . hmm .. DAC .. the dac goes thru a printer port (?) to the laptop loaded with spaghetti or pangolin or summatt .. ?

Close... galvos and lasers connect to an ILDa breakout board that puts a connection on the back of the projector which connects to the DAC which IS the printer port... (DB25 plug). The DAC could be an internal PCI card or USB connected device. There are a fwe boxes out know that you install the DAC in and the box connects to the PC via ethernet.