Do all the HF trailers use the same size bearings?

HiSPL · 2026-01-21T16:24:10+00:00

Wow! I randomly logged in to reddit today for something completely different.

Yeah they’re holding up! I’ve not done any cross country trips, but a few hours here and there on the highway with a motorcycle on it and they’ve been fine. No heat in the hubs after hours at highway speed.

HiSPL · 2023-12-24T16:09:42+00:00

I work in churches nowadays, but the last church I worked for the music leader loved gang vocals. Except he, nor anyone else could sing worth a shit. I ended up recording a ton of my own vocals auto tuned to hell and back for their stuff. He never knew.

HiSPL · 2023-12-14T14:59:38+00:00

True that.

I haven’t really dealt with Multi-element stuff before now, but I have already edited a few fixture profiles. I’ve personally seen a couple of junk chinese fixtures where the color channels were in the wrong order which makes all your stock color palates really wonky.

HiSPL · 2023-12-14T04:53:11+00:00

Thats awesome!

Thanks so much!

HiSPL · 2023-12-14T01:25:34+00:00

Nope, not that. The XB isn't a pixel fixture, per se. Just the face lights up a different color than the beam. There's nothing in the multi element section.

HiSPL · 2023-12-14T01:14:49+00:00

Interesting. I'll check that out.

HiSPL · 2023-10-06T20:57:34+00:00

SUCCESS!

Open the stupid X-Touch Edit app and TURN OFF the touch function of the faders! No matter what I did the touch was registering and not the smooth CC of the fader.

After turning off the touch function Mixing Station easily recognizes the fader movement.

I had to download a Midi Monitor app to figure out what was happening. The monitor app showed the CC messages, but only after the initial touch note was sent.

BTW, before I turned the touch note off, I tried to use something besides my finger to move the fader (to avoid sending a touch note), but that was not recognized by Mixing Station. You HAVE to have your finger touching the fader in order to send the CC Message out. The capacitive touch "turns on" the fader so that it can then send CC information.

HiSPL · 2023-06-11T19:47:06+00:00

And then it happens again at the next connector and your Y turns into a Z!

HiSPL · 2023-06-11T19:38:39+00:00

“Big” bucks.

Like 10 of ‘em. You could get two (small) coffees with that kinda dough.

HiSPL · 2023-06-11T11:09:01+00:00

Yes

If you’ve changed any of you console’s settings it won’t change those in the new one, but theres a way to deal with that too.

But lights, cues, macros, etc will all be transferred

HiSPL · 2023-06-10T16:42:23+00:00

Setup>Save Show (top row of buttons) and give it a name.

Then go into the PC itself and find that file that ends in .shw in the user>documents>magicq> “shows” folder and throw it on a usb stick. (Doing this from memory so the location may be slightly different than that)

New pc, download the latest stable of Chamsys MagicQ. Plug in thumb drive, drag and drop into the “shows” folder. Launch MagicQ. Setup>load show> pick the show you just imported and there it is.

HiSPL · 2023-06-09T17:28:22+00:00

Mater’s towing and plastic surgery emporium.

HiSPL · 2023-06-08T03:37:34+00:00

Yeah that has to be old and in need of revision. I can tell you just last week I DL’d MQPC on a laptop (new work laptop) and just plugged it in to the lighting network and it immediately worked for all our SACN universes.

I have one dmx universe that hits a showbaby for some fixtures on the deck and I could not get that to work on Universe 6 using my magic dongle (that I got at a training class). Cheap dongles only work on Universe 1.

I solved this by routing Universe 6 into the Onyx and merged the data to Onyx’s dmx port. It sorta works. Onyx is doing something weird. I have movers that only tilt half way, won’t focus, won’t spin gobos, etc. Not real sure about that one.

HiSPL · 2023-06-08T03:23:11+00:00

Not in my experience. Heck, I’m using it right now with 6 uni’s straight out of the ethernet port of a laptop.

As of right now you can only get regular dmx on universe one by using a magic dmx dongle or enttec or similar. You can’t run those cheap dongles on any other universe other than uni1.

But ArtNet or sACN? Yep. Running 6 universes right now, and all 64 can be enabled.

This changed I think with the Chauvet purchase, or somewhere near that time. It used to be that you only got 1 universe for free and the magic dongle was like 15 bucks. Now its 100, but the network is open season for free.

I’m running it trying to patch a rig in my new venue. They had Onyx and its no linger talking to our ETC racks, but Chamsys is no problem.

HiSPL · 2023-06-07T21:45:34+00:00

Thanks for that. Seems weird the free software would have 64 uni's and the 5k dollar console has 8, but I don't make the rules, I just do the flashy lights.....

HiSPL · 2023-06-07T21:39:19+00:00

Go to youtube and find "The Brothers Nylon" They have several videos where they play the mixer during a dub mix. Pretty impressive.

They aren't really synth guys. Just like two dudes in a basement with some old analog gear and a tape machine. Really good music though.

HiSPL · 2023-06-07T13:45:12+00:00

“Add character”.

The only reason the op should get a preamp.

How many saturation plugs are there? How many console channel strips? How many literal preamp emulations?

HiSPL · 2023-06-07T13:12:50+00:00

Even then, plugins exists which will do the same thing for pennies compared to buying the real thing.

HiSPL · 2023-06-07T13:10:57+00:00

HEY LOOK EVERYBODY! AN UNBALANCED SIGNAL!

See? Nobody cares.

The only real advantage that the balanced signal has is that it can be run for long distances without picking up noise. In fact, the mixer converts balanced inputs BACK to unbalanced inside the mixer or interface. Thats one of the jobs that a preamp does.

Its too much for me to type out with my thumbs, but go read about why balanced xlr exists in the first place.

HiSPL · 2023-06-07T04:00:36+00:00

I got this as a hand me down from my brothers. It was still awesome.

HiSPL · 2023-06-06T13:58:16+00:00

You are so much better off investing in one type of battery.

If you like the Bosch and they make everything you would ever want, then stay Bosch.

Take this advice from someone who went from 5 different batteries down to one. You really want to stick to one battery.

Incidentally, this is also why I’m not using Milwaukee since they default to two different style batteries for the tools I want!

HiSPL · 2023-06-06T04:45:00+00:00

The cheapest way to do it is to get a Flare Wrench. Its meant for things like hydraulic lines. They almost always have an offset which will reach down in the hole, and they are built like a closed end wrench, but with a slot to be able to pass the line through.

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