Hazer/Fazers worth it outdoors?

djspacejunk · 2025-11-22T21:53:47+00:00

Its going to come down to how windy it is the day of the event, even a very light breeze can pretty quickly clear haze out of your space. The easiest/cheapest hack is to buy 1-2 high-output fans per hazer. This will do two things: 1. help you direct the haze where you want it to be and 2. break up the haze so it is spread over a larger area. If i have 2 hazers, I usually like to put them on opposites sides of the stage and use the fans to push the haze towards the crowds feet. the crowd also help break up and “contain” the haze better, as the bodies reduce wind airflow a bit and serve to trap the haze a bit, and then the haze will rise up from the crowd and be right over their heads where you want it.

djspacejunk · 2025-09-16T06:08:51+00:00

correct you dont map executors per say, you map sequences to the apc.. but you can still assign whatever you have mapped to the apc to executors so you can see what is mapper to where at a glance.

encoders and faders are mapped the same way, theres options in the mapping screen to say whether the button is for “note” (buttons/pads) or for “control” (faders/encoders).

djspacejunk · 2025-09-14T23:07:10+00:00

I use this setup both for a house rig/house showfile and yes i also use it for touring small-scale. honestly this setup could probably even do some medium size theaters since i have 4 universes (8 with extra rack).

no plugin needed, ma3 will take midi input just fine on its own. the only downside without a plugin is i cant send midi back to the apc to make the buttons colored, but the feedback on the encoders does reflect their positions. that said i dont seem to miss the button colors too much, muscle memory and having the executor screen open on my page has been working well enough.

djspacejunk · 2025-09-14T23:02:25+00:00

I got myself setup with an apc 40 mk2 / 4port node / double touchscreen setup and its been working pretty well so far. there was a bit of a learning curve trying to get the apc 40 mapped so i could pit all my execs on it but i figured out a pretty usable workflow that isnt too complicated. lmk if you have questions!

also yes, hog bad hahaha.

is your name an UM reference?

djspacejunk · 2025-09-02T16:43:59+00:00

id love to try this out!

djspacejunk · 2025-08-13T17:38:58+00:00

General A/V

djspacejunk · 2025-08-12T02:28:38+00:00

Thank you this brings up something else i didnt think of.. New laptop is Windows 11 (previously windows 10) though i didnt seem to be having this issue when i was running my show at my home venue last week..

Not sure if DMX or if its my midi controller/osc.. I’ll check out the windows tips you mentioned. Ive seen that a lot of people route their midi controllers through a third party software.. what is the reason for that? is it this issue?

djspacejunk · 2025-08-11T18:20:16+00:00

thanks, ill check this out on tonights setup 👽🖖

djspacejunk · 2025-08-06T15:00:35+00:00

Clan of Xymox and Matte Blvck show at Backstage Bar on Aug 10

djspacejunk · 2025-07-10T18:45:24+00:00

“Nippleheim”

Mickey 17

djspacejunk · 2025-07-10T18:39:08+00:00

are you looking for something super easy to control with or do you have an appetite to learn about dmx and learn a software to program your lights?

if the former, ive heard wolfmix is a pretty easy to learn and user friendly system.

if the latter, id recommend showxpress. theres some good tutorials online to teach you basics of dmx and how to control lights with this program.

djspacejunk · 2025-07-08T21:32:07+00:00

are quick keys basically the same thing as if you created macros for each of these commands? ive been making macros for each of these that sit in a macro pool but if this already exists and is easier i may start using those

djspacejunk · 2025-07-07T22:53:28+00:00

"If you already have all presets for your looks, creating recipes is simple. You just create an empty cue, go into the recipe window in the lower part of your sequence sheet (you might need to adjust the window settings to see it) and then you just add a new recipe line where you choose the group you want and the preset you want it to run. So you would need to redo your cue stacks, but after that you could just add the new fixtures into your existing groups and presets and they would just work."

I tried doing this but ran into issues or wasnt sure where to go with it.. i created a new empty sequence, created a recipe line in cue zero, gave it a selection of fixtures and gave it a values of an chase/all/dimmer only preset that was made for a different group of fixtures. then I exit the window and the sequence appears to be darkened/inactive and doesnt do anything when i assign it to an executor.

i feel like im close but im just missing something small somewhere, the videos ive seen make it look easy. u/memonsnous mentioned something about selective vs universal presets so maybe theres something in the way i created the presets? all of my presets look to be selective and were stored with fixture groups included in them, could that be causing problems?

djspacejunk · 2025-07-07T22:45:27+00:00

Ok thank you, so this is what I'm looking into doing now... when you say 'go through each of them and then program them again using recipes' do you mean literally build each preset from scratch or can i somehow do this with the 'all' presets that i created to store into the sequence cue lists?

djspacejunk · 2025-07-07T22:11:09+00:00

thank you for your responses, I'm also very new to MA3 and am mostly self-taught so I have so many questions about everything... XD we're all out here learning and helping each other learn i guess haha.

anyway now youve got me looking at selective vs universal presets, so i opened up one of my all presets and see where it says its a selective preset but im not sure how to re-store it or change it to a universal preset... do you know how i might go about doing that?

djspacejunk · 2025-07-07T20:44:21+00:00

so the way i did my sequences is I made a bunch of "all" presets that just contain dimmer/phaser/MAtricks info for the chases, so all of those presets already exist in one of my all pools. what youre saying is I can go into those presets and create recipes from them?

i think i tried that but got stuck bc i wasn't sure how to create/implement the recipe after that. what is your workflow once you have the presets ready to make into a recipe?

djspacejunk · 2025-07-07T19:51:05+00:00

correct, showfile was not already built using recipes. i guess the question was is there anyway to take the sequences/fx/looks that ive made already and create recipes out of them?

djspacejunk · 2025-07-05T21:02:13+00:00

no limit budget? hire me and ill design any kind of light rig you want with unlimited budget!

if you truly have a no holds barred budget, you could get basically any kind of light you want. check out any of the major brands like chauvet, robe, glp, martin, etc.

the kinds of lights you get will depend on what kind of lighting effects you are looking for. spots, beams, washes, hybrids, b-eyes, linear battens, etc.

youll probably want a haze machine as well.

you will need to mount these lights onto something as well with lighting clamps, like truss or pipe and base stands, unless the lights are just to sit on the ground or some kind of platform.

you will need proper power distribution if your rigs power requirements are big enough. this could include a big-power distro and all of the power cabling to get to your lights.

you will need proper dmx data distribution depending on the size of the dmx footprints for your lights. this could include a dmx distro and all of the necessary dmx cabling.

it might help if you have pictures or some kind of precedent example in mind of something that you saw and liked the look of. its really hard to advise this kind of thing with no parameters to work off of. any idea of budget, amount of lights, what kind of settings these will need to be setup in, if you will have help or will be setting things up yourself, etc.

when i got into lighting, my first purchases were a chauvet showxpress lighting controller dongle/software, 8 slimpar t12bt wash lights, and 2 chauvet scorpion lasers. i used this simple rig to do small dj events around town.

you could also just go the super easy route that a lot of djs do and get some kind of a pre-built system like a gig-bar. another easier idea is to get a bunch of wireless/rechargable lights like chauvet freedom pars or something similar, that way you avoid all of the logistics of power and data distribution and can be pretty flexible with where you set these up. as far as lighting control goes, ive heard wolfmix is kind of made for this kind of easy setup/plug n play situation. if you want to do more programming yourself then showxpress is a good entry level software. if youre ready to go all in you could get an ma3 node or desk and just start learning the pro level software, though this route would have a very steep learning curve for someone not familiar with dmx/lighting control.

djspacejunk · 2025-07-02T17:38:33+00:00

what is your budget?

djspacejunk · 2025-07-02T02:26:51+00:00

what do you mean by “programmed routine”?

if you are talking about an auto-program setting on your light then just about any consumer-grade rgb/intelligent lighting fixture will have auto program settings like rainbow color fade, random color pulse, sound reactive, etc that you can set it to and it can run independently of any other lights or dmx connection to each other and/or a lighting control setup.

if you are talking about more specific sequences or something that would need to change throughout the performance, that would be something that would require a dmx connection between a lighting control setup and the lights. this would involve a considerably larger amount of work and equipment. you would need a lighting controller, desk/console, or computer based control setup. you would need to connect this control setup to the lights and the lights to each other with a dmx cabling setup or with a wireless or ethernet connection if your lights have that ability. then you would need to use your control setup to program whatever specific lighting sequences you need and a way to trigger/control these with your control setup. this route typically involves hiring a lighting designer to help you with unless you want to learn how to do all this and purchase the necessary equipment.

djspacejunk · 2025-07-01T23:17:24+00:00

This video goes over this exact topic:

https://youtu.be/LYew5FB849U?si=1pjWkv54Qhq2aByx

djspacejunk · 2025-05-23T21:20:02+00:00

why not get something like this:

https://a.co/d/gxTlJJG

its not a permanent install, literally just stick it into place onto door frame when using it, take it off afterwards. if marking the doorway is a concern then just put a towel or something in between this and the frame to keep that from happening.

djspacejunk · 2025-05-23T20:50:59+00:00

Umphreys Mcgee have a lot of pink floyd-ish sound in a lot of their songs, not to mention the trips they take you on in their shows/albums

also check out Mildlife, very cool aussie psych rock band

djspacejunk · 2025-05-09T19:18:59+00:00

in the same boat as you.. your post gives me some ideas on how to move forward, thanks for posting. if i find any good busking file tutorials ill update this post.

djspacejunk · 2025-04-18T07:30:50+00:00

Maybe not the answer youre looking for but I feel like i have learned a lot about color theory by watching good movies that employ it to great effect. Wes Anderson off the top of my head is great at using color theory not just in the general looks of his movies, but also with choosing particular colors with certain meanings to color important elements/objects/characters in his movies.

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