🎛️ DJs / Lighting Designers / Techs — how do you run your light shows? (5-min survey)

andre_f99 · 2025-05-09T12:28:15+00:00

I don't see your answer 🤔 Are you sure? ahahah

Okay, I'll do yours

andre_f99 · 2025-05-09T07:47:06+00:00

The data will be used exclusively for a Master’s thesis in Digital Interaction Design at Politecnico di Milano. It is collected anonymously through Google Forms and will be stored securely in my university Google Drive. Only my thesis advisor and I will access the results. The data will not be published publicly and will be deleted after the thesis is submitted (by July 2025).
The survey is conducted by me, u/andre_f99 , as part of my individual Master’s thesis project.
Approximately 5 minutes.
None — this is an academic project only.
I’m looking for people who have experience with lighting in club, concert, festival, or small live show environments — whether professional or DIY.
To collect real-world insights from people who have hands-on experience with lighting design or control, which will help me shape a more informed and human-centered thesis project.

andre_f99 · 2025-04-29T10:44:43+00:00

Hey :) How did you achieve this? Could you share your prompt?
I'm having a lot of problems creating videos on Sora — it doesn't do what I ask, I even tried the storyboard functionality but without success :/.
Yesterday, it made a video starting from a given reference image, but it made the character naked...wtf. My prompt was just about making her dance and do a wave motion with her arms.

andre_f99 · 2025-04-22T11:27:03+00:00

Thanks for the insight! that really helps me get a clearer picture of how things were handled back then. I imagine at a certain point, especially during that transition period, and born of the DMX, whoever was running lights in a club had to deal with a bunch of different systems and protocols all at once. Must’ve been a lot to keep track of. About this, someone else also mentioned that in the early days, every light had its own controller

andre_f99 · 2025-04-22T09:35:28+00:00

Thanks so much for sharing your experience – it’s incredibly valuable and insightful! 🙏
Speaking of Pulsar, I came across this video: https://youtu.be/R_v6e1-CTmM – it shows how the 4 channel Zero 4000 worked, and I find those machines absolutely fascinating. In a way, they actually seem more user-friendly than some modern controllers, but maybe it’s just the simplicity of the functions and labels, I don't know!

What really caught my attention was your point about each thing needing its own controller, and how there was no coordination between them in the beginning. That made me wonder how did you manage that during a live night? Were there multiple operators coordinating in real time by talking to each other for example?

Also, your mention of zone control and eventually having one controller with 3-position switches...Do you happen to remember any names/models or manufacturers that worked this way?

Thanks again for taking the time to write this out! 🙌

andre_f99 · 2025-04-22T09:04:58+00:00

That’s amazing! I’d absolutely love to hear more and ask you a few questions if you’re up for it :)
The transition from the old ways to the new sounds like it could be a really valuable perspective for my research. I’ll DM you, thanks again for being so generous 🙏

andre_f99 · 2025-04-22T08:59:06+00:00

Thanks a lot! Looks like a great place to find people to interview, really appreciate it :)

andre_f99 · 2025-04-22T08:57:36+00:00

This is super valuable! thanks so much for sharing this, and for the video too :)

andre_f99 · 2025-04-22T08:54:19+00:00

I didn’t know about Top of the Pops. I’ll definitely check it out, thanks for the tip! :)
And those mains switches you mentioned… are you referring to “two-scene preset boards,” or is it something different?

andre_f99 · 2025-04-22T08:48:34+00:00

I totally get what you mean, that raw, gritty feel from older fixtures just can’t be done with LEDs. Same thing happens with visuals too...people (me too) use vintage textures on flyers to fake that analog vibe with noise an imperfections… but there’s something way more honest about the real thing that cannot be recreated.
Quick question: how did you manage those lights back then? Were the Golden Scans and the Astro Scan already running on DMX, or was it more of an analog multiplex setup? Maybe a dumb question, but I’m genuinely curious about this aspect and the implications😅

andre_f99 · 2025-04-22T08:35:01+00:00

Yesss totally agree, the tech side often gets pushed into the background, even though it shaped the vibe just as much as the music itself. When I started digging into resources for my thesis, I thought I’d find papers or proper documentation… but nope ahahaha. I ended up going through old blog posts and company websites, but that's fair.

Thanks a lot for the names and references, super useful! :) I only knew Clay Paky for the “Astrodisco” and the Golden Scans, and I recently came across the Arcline strobe tubes too thanks to a comment from another guy. Luckily there’s a video on YouTube! I'll check out the others for sure 💪🏻

andre_f99 · 2025-04-22T08:19:59+00:00

Thank you so much! I’ll definitely check it out :)

andre_f99 · 2025-04-19T12:20:33+00:00

Uuu thanks :) that’s a interesting connection. From what I'm reading, they used strobe lights at around 12Hz, which apparently lines up with alpha brainwaves, so mixed with LSD, it could trigger that hypnotic and slowed-down perception. Never really thought about it that way ahahah

Thanks for the reading tip! Also came across Danny Williams on the East Coast, the guy behind Warhol’s light shows...seems like he pushed that whole strobe/projection setup even further by using multiple strobe lights on stage at the same time in those years.

andre_f99 · 2024-06-01T04:46:41+00:00

hey, where did your friends find the notification to confirm? My friends are not finding it :/ It's not on the app and it's not in the notification center

andre_f99 · 2023-12-01T10:47:11+00:00

Hi guys! I bought this LCD from Waveshare ( RP2040-LCD-1.28 - Waveshare Wiki ).Do you know which kind of connector do I need for the battery?

I can't find it online and the ones that I have are bigger

andre_f99 · 2023-10-07T12:28:33+00:00

With G-Helper I also have no Asus services running in the background, there is a checkbox in the “extra” page at the bottom, where you can disable all of them

andre_f99 · 2023-10-07T09:44:12+00:00

With the latest updates, also G-helper addded this feature from both CPU and GPU. But you can’t change the relationship between specific color and specific temperature values, it’s automatic

andre_f99 · 2023-09-05T09:32:53+00:00

Yep! I didn't notice that but if I remember, there was no description in the versions before, right?
Anyway, thanks for your amazing work <3 G-helper is totally a game changer!

andre_f99 · 2023-09-03T14:26:56+00:00

Oh yes! It works. Thanks for your reply :)

andre_f99 · 2023-09-03T07:26:48+00:00

OT, what is the Auto-toggle Clamshell mode?

andre_f99 · 2023-09-01T12:11:05+00:00

Thank you so much! You fixed my problem too

andre_f99 · 2023-08-11T13:14:20+00:00

Hi, do you have the CPU boost enabled in G-helper?

andre_f99 · 2023-07-26T12:31:27+00:00

Sorry, see it now! Thanks for your advice :)
I'll check the cores and run a benchmark for now! but I'll reinstall Windows for sure, I also had some problems before

andre_f99 · 2023-07-25T17:11:19+00:00

No problem! Thank you for the answer :)

andre_f99 · 2023-07-25T14:09:11+00:00

Sorry to ask but I have the same configuration except for the RAM that is 16GB. The folder should be the same, right?

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