The Lighting Nerds – Details, episodes & analysis

It's episode 045, a most inauspicious number. Last episode EVER...to be recorded on this beast of a Mac Pro tower from 2010. You've been good to me, CODA.

In this episode:

-The Robe iBolt. We also chat about laser sources in general, and opine as to why FDA treats them so
-The Martin MAC Viper XIP
-The CM BatteryStar Hoist
-PLSN CONTROVERSY: is a FREE publication FORCING the little guy to PAY TO PLAY? Find out TONIGHT
-Tea Time: Rendering workflows, part I of who knows
-Lighting trivia: Craig gets it wrong. No, right!
-Lighting Term of the Day: Egg Crate

It's the Lighting Nerds! Into Logic and out of it again in an actually reasonable amount of time, belive it or not. Though sort of unreasonable when it comes to how long it's been since we released. Don't forget to join the Discord:

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• News
  • Cobra2: What's up at the FDA, exactly?
  • Martin MAC One
• Notable productions
  • Eras, which we'll discuss later
  • The Grammys, which we'll discuss...now
• Tea Time
  • The Eras Tour
• Lighting Trivia: Alex gets it wrong, but we've got a new drop for it
• Lighting Term of the Day: sACN: Craig struggles to remember an exponent of two.

Yeah, we know you haven't thought about COVID-19 for like...ten seconds, but here we are anyway, talking about it. At least, like, a little. It's the episode featuring the OG Lighting Nerd, Gavin Lake! Say hello, Gavin.

In this episode:

• Industry news: 
  • God almighty, the mother effing coronavirus.
  • Wash your hands, blah blah, let’s commiserate about how super effed we all are. 
• New fixtures / gear
  • Are high-powered arc-source moving lights a thing of the past for good? Craig and Gavin ponder.
  • GLP Impression FR10: https://www.germanlightproducts.com/product/impression-fr10-bar/ 
    • Now we can have EVEN MORE X4 BAR 
  • Cable testers: handy to have around, not as handy when you don’t have both ends as the same standard: https://plsn.com/featured/whirlwind-power-link-tlt-line-cord-testers/ 
  • Screen calibrator: The Hydra is a thing that exists, I think the tech will become more used and the prices will drop, and we’ll start to see these as standard on more shows to keep LED screens looking good. 
• Notable personnel movements
  • Tyler Truss now owned by Glenn Cleland, previously owned by Mark Dodd of Dodd Technologies, which seems to be a production company.
• Notable tours / productions
  • The Deadmau5 cube tour
  • The Black Keys and the 325 Strike Ones.
• Tea Time
  • Programming with SMPTE time code!
  • As promised, the promised track
• Lighting trivia!
  • Which of these did not exist: the Martin MAC 1200, the VL liquid lens, or the moving head confetti cannon?
  • Craig sez: I know that I say "VL7" in this episode, but that's wrong. The VL7 had nothing specifically to do with the liquid lens
• Lighting Term of the Day
  • Softgoods

It's a Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa/Las Posadas/Eid-al-Adha/Diwali/Festivus miracle! An episode: shiny, new, episode 034. Curl up in front of the fire, break out the Glögg, or if you're like Craig, Templeton Rye and have yourself a merry little whatever with The Lighting Nerds. I really should decide whether to always include the "The" or not. Sheesh.

• New fixtures / gear
  • MIXBOOK
    • Wat
    • Sort of limited utility if you're a costumer, no?
    • https://plsn.com/featured/rosco-laboratories-releases-worlds-first-digital-swatchbook-mixbook/ 
  • ELC Lighting’s dmXLAN nodeGBx system.
    • I really wanted them to cut the cable with a giant pair of scissors in the video, that would have been funnier than unplugging it.
  • SOLAPIX 
    • Pretty busy sector of the market...so, is it all that amazing?
• Notable personnel news 
  • Josh turner bus crash. :( 
    • https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/josh-turner-tour-bus-crash-speaks-out 
    • Don’t sleep backward! 
    • Wear your seatbelt when in the jump seat 
    • Check on the driver now and then 
• Tea Time
  • Variables in grandMA2
• Lighting trivia!
  • Biscuit: Craig gets it right!
• Lighting Term of the Day
  • IR / instant replay
  • Common on corporate shows, refers to a sound clip that’s stored ahead of time and played back.

We're back with the hackneyed animal similes. In this episode:

• The Chauvet Maverick MK3 
  • We talk about having network connectivity such as sACN/Artnet vs physical DMX that loops thru etc. 
  • And some other stuff
• The Martin ERA 300/Martin ELP Profile Range
• The new generation of visualizers
• Tea Time
  • Craig gets *very* long-winded.
  • God, is he still talking?
• Lighting trivia: Alex's lucky guess!
• Lighting Term of the Day: Envelope + pinches

It's The Lighting Nerds, episode 032. That's an exponent of 8, which makes this episode extra-special. We also have Jose, my old L2 from Halsey, filling in for Alex, who's off making money for this ep. In this ep:

• Industry news and fixture talk
  • The Martin MAC Allure
    • It's cool, I want to see a rig of many
  • The Elation Artiste Monet
    • Jose likes it!
  • The ETC Releve
    • Much better than that other ETC moving light.
  • The Elation RAYZOR 760
    
    • It's S P A R K L Y
• Tea Time
  • An interview with Mike Wood, who tells us about strange French words and their effects on lights
  • No seriously, it's about etendue, which you need to know about so LISTEN UP KIDS.
  • Mike's papers about this concept, so you can follow along
    • Entendue
    • Entendue revisisted
• Lighting Quiz
• Lighting Term of the Day
  • Snoot / top hat

It's Episode 031! Craig and Alex are back, Craig had a baby. Well, his partner did anyway. It's the Episode with the title card you'll have to listen to the whole thing to get. In this episode:

• Industry news
  • We do not talk about the new Clay-Paky light, because I have conflicting information about it. Does it use a phosphor? Are there lasers? CP won't say.
  • High End Systems Turbo Ray
  • Vari-Lite 6500 Wash
    • Bet VL didn't see the Turbo Ray coming!
  • Fred Foster passed away in February
• Notable Tours
  • The 1975 ABIIOR tour
    • Is it called that? I keep seeing two different names for the thing.
  • Tobias, are you listening? We like you <3
• More news
  • Alex is writing for CX Magazine in Australia
  • Read his articles at: https://www.cxnetwork.com.au
• Tea Time
  • Staying healthy on the road, a discussion
  • Send us your tips for staying healthy!
• Lighting trivia
• Lighting Term of the Day
  • Source 4

Woah, two eps in the space of a month? Stop the presses! Hold the phone! Pet the hedgehog! Wat? In this episode, Alexander is back:

Industry news: 

• New fixtures / gear 
  • GLP JDC1s now feature “Aggressive mode”, which increases the brightness 180% when the RGB LEDs are not in use 
  • World’s first 50-watt 7-color: emitter
  • New short-arc lamps: Osram SharXS Brilliant Series. 1000, 1200, 1500. They have a CRI of 92, which is pretty high. I’d love to see TM-30-15 specifications on these. 
    • Fun question: when was the last time you saw a jacketed arc lamp? Like, a decade? 
  • LightConverse is now L8. Alex riffs on how he feels about LightConverse.
  • Tea Time: Alex’s thoughts about the Reputation Tour: redux

• Lighting trivia! 
  • Craig gets it right
• Lighting Term of the Day
  • Scroller  

It's the Lighting Nerds, first ep of 2019. That's twenty-nineteen. Special guest co-host, Chas! In this Episode:

• ROE Vanish V8 LED screen
• New Follow-Me hardware
  • Craig has concerns about AC Lighting
• Clay-Paky manuals are now behind a username / pass wall? Why? That's dumb.
• Bohemian Rhapsody
• Tea Time: The Taylor Swift Reputation Tour, Part I
• Lighting Trivia: Chas guesses
• Lighting Term of the Day: gel

Happy New Year, you hoopy froods! And shouts to the excellent folk at IATSE Local 16.

It's the Lighting Nerds! Your go-to source for slightly up-to-date lighting information!

In this episode:

• News Items
  • The Vari-Lite VL10 WashBeam
  • Circa-Scoop LED by Mega Lite. Interesting.
  • The Altman AP-150. It's...an RGBW PAR.
• Notable Movements
  • George Masek is back at VL. Woo, George!
• Notable Tours
  • Frame By Frame
• Tea Time
  • Controlling Media as an LD
• Lighting Trivia
  • Alex cheats
• Lighting Term of the Day
  • Additive and subtractive mixing