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Feb

Changes 3/2/08

Posted by Rick  Published in Technical Production, changes, lighting

Here is the list for this week…
Lighting:

Moved the catwalk color scrollers to the down stage pipe adding a color wash to the stage extension.
Hung the seventh scroller in the down pipe focused on the stage extension center.
Moved the old back lighting back to the black curtains as architectural down light and gelled them blue.
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28

Feb

Changes 2/24/2008

Posted by Rick  Published in Technical Production, changes, lighting

One of my goals as a technical producer is to make weekly improvements to my ministry. So I figured that I would keep a log of what is going on. These will be short posts of changes. Might be interesting to look back over the year and see how for we have [...]

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28

Feb

Adapting to the new job and fear

Posted by Rick  Published in Technical Production

Today I was working in the lift as I have been doing often these days and realized that I might just be too comfortable. Some know that I’m not a big fan of heights. My friend Eric knows this two well. A number of years ago Eric and I were in Prescott, [...]

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26

Feb

Open Source Software

Posted by Rick  Published in MacHash, OS X, Open Source

Many people know that I have been a big fan of open source software for a long time.  I have been using one form or another for about 10 years now.  Windows was my bread an butter back in the 90’s.  Starting in the year 2000, more and more of my work was moving to [...]

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12

Feb

Time Machine

Posted by Rick  Published in Apple, OS X

I have had an interesting 2008 when it comes to data problems.  When I got back from Christmas vacation I found that my laptop hard drive had died. What a bummer.  This was a brand new 200gb drive that was less then a month old.  I had the 100gb drive that [...]

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8

Feb

Amp Replacement

Posted by Rick  Published in Technical Production, audio

We had three amps go down this week. So John installed three new Crown CTs amps in the racks and we did a rough balance. Tomorrow we will go back in with fresh ears and fine tune the system. So far we think that it is already sounding better. [...]

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6

Feb

Sunday 2/3/2008

Posted by Rick  Published in Sundays, Technical Production, lighting

Last Sunday was again a great day of worship.  The choir was again sounding better than before the EQ change we made last week.  Today we moved some of the worship to the end of the service and the songs were an extension of the message.  It was an awesome change.  I had spent most [...]

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5

Feb

Fire in the hotel garage

Posted by Rick  Published in Random Thoughts

Nothing like a car fire and evacuation during your dinner at the staff retreat.  We are here at Moody Gardens in Galveston and a fire alarm interrupted our dinner.  Now we are headed out for burgers.

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4

Feb

1200 Watt Mover

Posted by Rick  Published in Technical Production, lighting

Last Wednesday, I moved the lift to the front of house and started working on refocusing the lights on the FOH trusses. While I had it out, I was planning on replacing the burned out lamp in our 12oo watt mover. After replacing the lamp, the fixture would still not strike. [...]

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