What is a stage lighting console? What is it used for? How to use it?
What is a stage lighting console?
At present, most of the professional lighting equipment used in large-scale outdoor performances in China, such as square parties, large and medium-sized personal concerts, and large and medium-sized indoor stage plays (including studios), such as digital dimming consoles, computer light control centers, digital silicon boxes, computer effect lights, computer color-changing lights, follow-spot lights, computer color changers, laser lights, etc., are digitally controlled. How to connect these devices to each other to achieve accurate control and realize the overall dispatch of stage lighting is a headache for most lighting controllers.
What enables lighting engineers to accurately control stage digital lights? Modern stage lighting designers have proposed a new management concept for stage lighting - unified management and centralized control. That is, multiple digital lighting devices with different functions and effects are connected and controlled by a digital dimming console. For example, we connect digital dimming silicon boxes, digital color changers, computer effect lights, computer color change lights, digital smoke machines, digital bubble machines, etc. to a computer console and control them by a lighting engineer. Practice has proved that it is feasible. This involves the DMX 512 signal transmission system that is well known to industry insiders.
As audiences, we can see the flashing of stage lights, and there are many types, but we have never thought about who is controlling and operating them, and how to achieve unified control. This requires mentioning the stage lighting console, which is the soul of all lights. So what are the main functions and effects of the stage lighting console?
How to use the stage lighting console
The main function of the console is to control lighting and sound, so it can be divided into mixers, equalizers, crossovers, compressors, etc. Through the console, you can make necessary adjustments and conversions to stage lighting and other related equipment according to the needs of the scene.
Stage Lighting Console Program
The basic function of stage lighting is to provide lighting and viewing effects for the stage, from elevation to artistic atmosphere. The lighting of stage lighting also depends on the different contents, and the requirements for lamps and lighting are also different. In addition, the various repertoires are different, such as opera, ballet, drama, drama, etc. According to the needs of the performance, the stage lighting provides corresponding beams, and the angle of the beam, the size of the light spot, etc. need to be adjusted at any time. This requires a console to reflect, and the console can also allow the light to cut the light spot into various patterns as needed. Compared with the traditional manual control of lighting, it has improved a lot and can achieve intelligent and automated functions.
01, MA-Y2
6 DMX outputs, 1 DMX input, connected to the expander, supports up to 65536 channel parameters
Built-in 2 electric adjustable wide-angle 15.4-inch touch screens, built-in 9-inch touch screen, 1 external touch screen
15 high-precision electric push rods (60mm)
2 AB field electric push rods (100mm)
1 master push rod
6 encoders (with PUSH function)
1 high-sensitivity trackball
2 Gigabit Ethernet ports, support MA NET, ARTNET, ETC NET2, PATHPORT, SCAN, SHOWNET, KINET1 signals
5 USB2.0 ports
Independently adjustable yellow backlit buttons, built-in keyboard
MIDI input and output interface, LTC/SMPTE time code
Built-in solid state drive
Compatible with MA1 and MA2 systems
Built-in solid state drive
Support multiple online backup
Support handheld remote control
Support stage 3D effect simulation, real-time on-site simulation
AC wide voltage power supply: 110-240 V, 50/60Hz
02, Tiger Lighting Console Tiger Touch
Adopting powerful Titan Titan operating system
Core Duo processor, 120G solid state drive, 4G memory
Supports Chinese menu display and built-in multiple languages
Built-in 15.4-inch touch screen. And can be expanded to a 17-inch touch screen
8 DMX output ports, 4096 DMX channels
Support Artnet, and can be expanded to 12 DMX output ports, 9216 channels
18px;">10 macro keys, can edit any program
20 playback faders, support 1000 virtual playback
Powerful CMY palette function.
Support graffiti-style handwriting naming function
Support CITP protocol, can preview the built-in materials of the server or digital light
Reserve an external WI-FI access point, can use Ipod Touch and iPhone for remote control
Built-in thousands of light libraries and built-in light library editing software
Built-in Visualiser visualization stage simulation software, supports video
Built-in Visualiser visualization stage simulation software, supports video
Provide MIDI time code control, playback buttons or faders by MIDI remote control
Chinese computer lighting control console DF-FOX1024s
Maximum 1024 DMX control channels, DMX512/1990 standard, photoelectric isolation signal output port.
Maximum control of 100 computer lights or 100 dimming and LED lamps.
Maximum 42 control channels per light, using light library mode. (R20 Light Library)
With attribute channel faders, it is convenient for users to control the lights.
Maximum storage of 300 playback programs, divided into 30 pages.
With 40 direct selection scenes, you can output them in a superimposed manner at the same time, and you can cooperate with replays for live special effects, and you can point control and latch them.
With built-in graphics, it is convenient for users to control the computer lights, such as drawing circles, waves, apertures, brightness changes and other effects, supporting graphic superposition, deformation, expansion and symmetry effects.
Program synchronization control: optional internal speed, external speed, music synchronization control.
Supports the function of overlapping lamps. By setting the overlapping lamp sequence, direction, and time, a variety of overlapping effects can be quickly achieved.
Built-in 20 "light show" records, can achieve one-key "light show" (internal time code, no PC required).
With MIDI interface, support master/slave parallel operation. And support external MIDI time code triggering, realize external "light show" performance.
Large screen LCD display, using Chinese/English menu operation mode.
With USB data interface, support U disk data backup and system upgrade.
Professional gooseneck work light (optional).
Power supply: AC100-240V 50/60Hz 15W, high-performance green switching power supply, in line with the power supply requirements of countries around the world.
Equipment volume / net weight: 482 x 440 x 108 mm / 8kg
Packaging volume / gross weight: Dimensions: 595 x 535 x 240 mm / 11.5kg
Built-in pixel mapping and built-in graphics generator
The powerful Titan system is more user-friendly than the previous classic Pearl system. Each function is more refined.
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