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: