I just got a job as a resident Dj (Whee! ) and once my light rig is a thing I’ll be running like 25-35 feet of DMX across the dance floor. I looked into those cable covers you see just about everywhere (you know the ones) and while perfect and reusable, they are REALLY expensive.
So basically what I’m looking for are either products, or home grown methods, of covering cables for safety reasons and for the sake of cables that are easy to implement and reusable as I’ll be pulling all the cables back up either three times or one time a week.
GO THINK TANK GO.
EDIT: These are the cheapest I’ve found. I need about $500 of these though, still a lot.
Okay so I may have to rethink the floor. I have a meeting at the venue in two days so I’ll re scope it then and take some photos to put here so you can see what I’m up against.
I didn’t even know these existed until a few years ago, the production company I work for bought some because our front of house position was about 150 feet away from the lighting rig, and we discovered that our dmx signals were starting to get a little screwy after about 100’ of cable. We got Chauvet D-fi trancievers and they have worked flawlessly.
So if I got one of these and two of these, I could run the foot controller into one of the 4 stands, then the DMX Out to the DMX Transmitter, then run the three recievers to the DMX Ins on the other 3 stands? With them all set to Address 1 that should work right?
Yeah. You could tape them up against the wall and cover them with strips of carpet or something. If you will be playing there regularly a more permanent solution would be best. PITA hiding cables every week.
True enough. Once I get into the swing of things I may find I can leave much of it up. However, that wireless Chauvet system seems pretty elegant as I can leave everything attached, then I just have to run power which is easy enough.
So I could go with separate receivers and transmitters for $540-ish OR I could do transceivers for $680-ish. The transmitter/receivers would be cheaper and do the job, but are ultimately less flexible, so I might go with The extra for transceivers instead. Has anyone used the D-Fi System before? Is one method more stable than the other?
Why not get them to pay partially for you to install one wire across the ceiling that you wouldn’t need to remove? You could just come in plug in and be done with it!
Not sure how expensive the cable is etc so this may work or may not
The cable wouldn’t cost too much so I’ll talk to the club about it as they are doing some light renos right now, they might be open to it. However, the wireless is tempting now too! One of the other venues I play, wireless would be very handy.
Do it once, do it right. If wireless is an option, from reading everything here (and honestly knowing nothing about wireless DMX myself… but that’s why I’m here, learning!) it sounds like wireless is going to be the best for you.
I know the deal with having to tape down wires. It’s time consuming and a pain in the arse, especially if you are spending a lot of time doing it before a show, and then just ripping it down after.
) and once my light rig is a thing I’ll be running like 25-35 feet of DMX across the dance floor. I looked into those cable covers you see just about everywhere (you know the ones) and while perfect and reusable, they are REALLY expensive.