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I need to do this, so please bear with me.  This is a repost from my Facebook page.  I am going to eulogize my friend who I haven't spoken to in over two decades.  He played a very big part in my early adult life in the biz.

Back in 1993, George Walter Bush was already tired of his own name, which prompted some to call him "Mr. President".  Everywhere he went, many stagehands he encountered blubbered the same idiotic comments.  I saw it every day and his grace about it was magnificent.

By the time W became president, George and I had not communicated for quite some time, but it must have been unbearable for him to go through it a SECOND time.

George earned his place as entertainment business legend on the first day of the Mark Chesnutt arena headline tour in 1993.

We had spent a week in pre-production tour rehearsals with tech days and band days; unusual expenses for a Nashville country act back then.  George worked his ass off every day that I knew him, as our one-man lighting crew.  In rehearsal, he meticulously labeled, loomed, and taped his ground lighting cabling that we were going to carry on tour. He had Cyberlights all over the place, and the cabling was dialed in for fast deployment and striking.  Neatly coiled into a Cadillac case, with a solid plan for gigs.

On the first night of the tour, a less than ideal stagehand was sadly assigned to George.  At loadout, George instructed his hands to do what they were supposed to do.  He boogied back to front of house to strike his console and wrap the snake.  Meanwhile, Mr. on-stage stagehand cut every piece of tape off of every loom and neatly wrapped each individual cable.

When George discovered this, I swear to God I saw him turn purple.

But this is where he became a legend.  He simply stood up straight, stuck out his arm level and rigid, pointed at ME in stage left monitor world, and roared like a lion at the stagehand, "GO TO SOUND!"

He calmly finished the rest of his work and I don't think he said another word until we cracked open our beers on the bus.

Rest in peace my friend.

There's a similar thread happening below. Me personally I have a ER-X SFP passive PoE powering a UAP AC M, good system and I can get it up high on a mic stand for coverage.

https://forums.prosoundweb.com/index.php/topic,181080.0.html

Hi everybody
Please forgive,I know it’s been addressed thousands of times!
Looking to upgrade my WiFi access point for Yamaha control.
What are you using with best results?
Thanks in advance
Ivan

I'm using Etymotic's with the latex triple flange at the moment.  I tried and failed with the Comply foams.  Just couldn't get a decent seal for long.   A couple of weeks back I had impressions done and dropped them off to 64 Audio.  Looking forward to getting the customs!

I just got my 64 Audio custom molds (the A12).
WOW do these things seal amazingly well!
Custom molds are an entirely different ballgame.
It's like being in a studio room by yourself.

Mostly true-but that depends a lot on the moisture content of the earth.  I once managed to create a fault from a POCO transformer that caused sparks between a ground rod and a ground wire a helper was in the process of connecting connecting.  Most code requirements are driven by statistics-no one wants to be the statistic that causes another code rule!

When I was growing up, whenever the furnace blower kicked on the lights would dim a little. One day I observed that the lights got brighter when the furnace came on. This slowly got worse over the course of weeks. It turned out that the neutral conductor in the service drop from the pole to the house had broken and all that was keeping the house from totally unbalancing was the ground conduction between the POCO ground rod at the distribution transformer pole and the water-pipe ground at the house service entrance. It was winter in a valley bottom (San Francisco Bay) with a shallow water table and the galvanized steel service pipe most likely ran not too far from the pole but still... I doubt the outcome would have been as good up on a fan in the Mojave Desert.

--Frank

That ground rod will give you good protection against lightning. If you have a metal stage, it should also have a ground rod. Neither will offer much protection from an electrical fault, that's the job of the ground connection in the distro. You can't sink an appreciable amount of electricity into dirt. It works with lightning because it allows the huge electrical charge in the cloud to short to the corresponding opposite charge that accumulates on that dirt in response to the charge on the cloud.

Mac

Mostly true-but that depends a lot on the moisture content of the earth.  I once managed to create a fault from a POCO transformer that caused sparks between a ground rod and a ground wire a helper was in the process of connecting connecting.  Most code requirements are driven by statistics-no one wants to be the statistic that causes another code rule!

So I know this is an oldddddd thread, in fact the HDL50a is now the "4K" with the bigger amps. But I can't find any other thread about these boxes, Now that they have been ourt a bit, any additional reviews or thoughts? I am in Michigan and i have bever seen or heard one...I may be interested... but the comments about the bleed behind the box and too much sound on stage is concerning. If true, is that most any box that isn't cardioid, or is it this one in particular has a problem with it beyond the norm?
thansk!!!

Hey Andrew,

I think we've worked together in the past (I'm down in Battle Creek).

Regarding your questions about the rear bleed, that seems to be a problem I've noticed more with composite/plastic boxes than wooden ones. RCF describes the construction as wood/plastic, so I don't know what percentage of each material is used. But by and large, every time I've been around plastic line arrays, there's a lot of low/mid mud behind them. Use cases, tolerance, and other factors will vary from person to person, but I feel that most of the time I'm willing to put up with some extra weight if it means a quieter stage.

Incidentally, I attended a DB Technologies Vio demo recently, and that was some seriously impressive stuff. I believe all of those cabinets are wood. 

Of the three, in this price class the ADJ IKON IR is the one to go with.  I used one just last weekend under a canopy with chairs/tables at a backyard party, hung in the corner and aimed at the ceiling across the area - throw was 15-18' with "It's a boy" custom gobo in it.  They are great for that type of event.  32W LED light engine.

Around the 20' distance is where things get expensive and jump from under $500 to over $2000.  When you want to start throwing gobo projections 30-40' or more you first must pay the piper.

Hi all,

Looking for a nice gobo projector that I can use for small mobile events. Something fairly bright, somewhat compact, reliable, and able to manually rotate the gobo to an exact location. I came across these as possible contenders. Can anyone make a recommendation?

https://www.adj.com/ikon-ir
https://www.chauvetdj.com/products/gobo-zoom-2/
https://goboman.com/product/wedding-gobo-package/

Thanks!

Of the three, in this price class the ADJ IKON Profile Plus is the one to go with.  I used one just last weekend under a canopy with chairs/tables at a backyard party, hung in the corner and aimed at the ceiling across the area - throw was 15-18' with "It's a boy" custom gobo in it.  They are great for that type of event.  32W LED light engine in my older light, now the "Plus" is 40W.  They will zoom down to a 15 degree spread so you get a little distance with them.

Yep, I was going to say the same thing - it's hard to beat the good old-fashioned S4.  The S4 Junior Zoom is also a great choice if you want something a bit more compact, and if you must have LED the ETC ColorSource Spot Series is worth a look too.

I will note that the big advantage of using LED fixtures for gobo projection is the ability to use transparency film to create your own gobos, without having to resort to cooling solutions like the (apparently discontinued) Rosco ImagePro.