1.24.2009

Zephaniah Tabernacle Concert

Another awesome gig.

Zephaniah Tabernacle (I had to google it to get the spelling correct) is a church in Springfield about a mile from the house Jenn and I used to live in on Laura Street....

This was their first "worship concert" with their new band/praise team and a live recording. We setup the night before at midnight, right after tearing down from youthquake the night before.

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All in all it was a good show.

The majority of the effect lighting came from 4 10' truss uprights with a Trackspot and a pair of LED 64's mounted on top. 8 Pars on a pair of tripods provided basic front light.

The back truss lights were ran by Chamsys on Andrew's laptop. I am still amazed at what you can do with the software and a USB>DMX box.

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Here is a video of the band (and conregation) having a party between songs:


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More pictures can be found on the good ole photobucket There were three cameras shooting the event for a promo video, when I get the DVD (and figure out how to rip DVD's) I will post the video for my MANY readers.

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This is one of the ONLY shows in 10 years of lighting at various churches where the pastors invited me to come pray with the band back stage
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I found this door sign - maybe I'll add "minister of education" to my resume and enclose this picture to prove it:
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Believe it or not, I saw my second gold church chair less than 24 hours after seeing the first one at Paxon
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1.12.2009

Youthquake Live @ Paxon Revival Center Church

Paxon is a 5000 seat church with metal halide gym lights for house lights. I really didn't want to use their house lights so we put 8 cans on tripods in the balcony with red/orange gel for house ligthts. It was a little dark but it was much better than the alternative.

Andrew actually ran lights from his laptop on stage... This was the largest event Andrew had to program for.

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I basically ran the church's installed lights off a cool older NSI controller
Lighting - some NSI thing

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To make the room "seem" smaller I suggested putting something cool in the back to distract from the under balcony area that seated 800 people. I borrowed some spandex thingees from Chets Creek and lit them with some led pars. One random thing that came to mind was lining the path under the balcony with Christmas lights - it turned out pretty cool.

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3000 kids showed up.

YQL did communion for the first time. It was an event that I was really glad to be part of.

1.02.2009

River Town Church Portable rig

River Town is a church plant that (like most church plants) has to setup and teardown every week.... They wanted a cool lighting system that would give them lots of different looks and is configurable for different sermon series.

Here is the concept:
The system is designed around 4 12' tripod stands placed on each corner of the stage.

>The 2 "front light" tripods had 2 LED 64's, 2 Shorty Par 64's with 500 watt wide lamps, and a dimmer pack per tree (for white light, we also used shorty pars so that the would have the same dimensions as the par 64 leds - so we can put them in a case easily).

>The two back trees had 4 LED 64's each.

>I also had them buy 4 more led 64's on mic stand bases for wall streaks against their back wall or for random lights on the floor (like putting them behind the drum set, etc)

The pars were pre rigged on the par bars and pre wired with power strips and DMX cables. They also designed some pretty slick cases for the 4 par bars.

To make the setup go even faster... We took dmx cables and loomed them to extension cords with friction tape giving you one cable per tree. We purchased a DMX splitter so that you don't have to daisy chain all the trees together...

Sunday morning rolls around:
1 - Roll in cases, place tripods
2 - Place par bars on tripods
3 - Plug in DMX splitter and power strip (near the splitter in a little roadcase with the splitter)
4 - Distribute power and dmx via the 50' power/dmx looms (just like you would run your mic/instrument cables to your snake box on stage)
5 - Lay out uplight pars, daisey chain dmx and power to uplights.
6 - Run the 150' DMX home run (we put it on a reel to make it easier to roll up and not knot up)
7 - Hook up DMX controller (we used a DMX operator - works great)
8 - Test lights
9 - Raise stands
10 - Program lights (if needed)

Its a cool system for around $3000 (16 leds, 4 64's, dmx splitter, controller, tripods, cabling)

We also designed it to be useful if permanently mounted when they actually get a venue..... The dimmer packs are 4 channels, so all they have to do is add 4 pars or lekos for white light and they still have 16 LED pars for front color, back light, side light, etc.

Here is some pics I took from their site: