Advice on Pearl usage

[WouterVerlinden]

Hi all,


I am using my personal Pearl 2000 for some time now, but I am not sure that I am using it "most efficiently"...

For a show consisting of 10 moving head spots, 8 moving head washes, some LED-fixtures for ambience light, some PARs on stage, some PARs on the dancefloor, some sunstrips, some houselights and some barlights I program my submasters as follows:

Submaster 1-2: Chases & Scenes on the stage PARs (multiple pages)
Submaster 3-4: Chases & Scenes on dancefloor PARs (multiple pages)
Submaster 5-6: Chases & Scenes on sunstrips (multiple pages)
Submaster 7: Some slow chases on barlights
Submaster 8-9: Some slow chases on the ambience lights (LED)
Submaster 10-12: Chases, Scenes & Shapes on Moving Washes
Submaster 13-15: Chases, Scenes & Shapes on Moving Spots


Is this a common way of using the Pearl?
Are you guys combining more types of fixtures under the same submaster / cue?
How do you keep an organised way of working in festival-like situations where you don't know the bands and music?


PS: I always run the desk in takeover mode to play with the moving lights on focus-presets...


Greetz,

W

[niclights]

It all depends on what you are trying to achieve/type of show etc. That's the beauty of the flexibility.

A similar question came up at the Blue Room today:

http://www.blue-room.org.uk/index.php?showtopic=26785

Incidentally I think young Tom's reply there was a good example of exactly how not to use a Pearl. Absolutely no idea...!