2004 Pearl RGBW Led problem
Posted: 26 Aug 2022, 11:18
Good morning everyone, sorry if this has been already covered.
I often run an old 2004 Pearl with RGBW Led wash and beam fixtures.
Given a 99% busking environment, I like programming colors as palettes, switching between them with a fade time from the keypad.
White channel is used, either as stand-alone or mixed with RGB for those "pastel", softer hues.
The problem is:
- beam fixtures fade nice and smoothly from one color to the other, just as they should,
- in wash fixtures, RGB channels fade, but White channel doesn't: it snaps instantly from the previous value to the next instead, while RGBs are just starting to fade in.
Obviously it looks very cheesy, especially when transitioning from a color with a lot of White to one with none: White shuts off immediately, leaving dark on stage until RGB channels kick in.
The only way to get around this is to use the wheels (slow and messy while busking), or to program RGBW as Mode 2 faders (still haven't tried, but I'd rather prefer to save 4 faders for something else).
Is this a problem with the fixture itself, or with the personality file, which needs to be updated/replaced, or some sort of user error?
Thanks in advance
I often run an old 2004 Pearl with RGBW Led wash and beam fixtures.
Given a 99% busking environment, I like programming colors as palettes, switching between them with a fade time from the keypad.
White channel is used, either as stand-alone or mixed with RGB for those "pastel", softer hues.
The problem is:
- beam fixtures fade nice and smoothly from one color to the other, just as they should,
- in wash fixtures, RGB channels fade, but White channel doesn't: it snaps instantly from the previous value to the next instead, while RGBs are just starting to fade in.
Obviously it looks very cheesy, especially when transitioning from a color with a lot of White to one with none: White shuts off immediately, leaving dark on stage until RGB channels kick in.
The only way to get around this is to use the wheels (slow and messy while busking), or to program RGBW as Mode 2 faders (still haven't tried, but I'd rather prefer to save 4 faders for something else).
Is this a problem with the fixture itself, or with the personality file, which needs to be updated/replaced, or some sort of user error?
Thanks in advance