Preparations for the Rock Hall Gala

So next on my list of blogs for tonight...

A few weeks ago was the Rock Hall Gala downtown at Public Hall

Usually when we get an order in to pull for a production or a rental it takes us an hour or two to pull and check everything to make sure its working. well we got the rock hall order. It took us three days to pull this order. To quote ben who was in charge of the show "we're not taking like one of everything. we're taking at least 8 of everything."

That was pretty much the reality. We had over 50 moving lights. 8 color blaze led strip lights, and million other smaller fixtures. A picture of this order after it was done is attached. This event was so big that all three of the production guys were supervising the load in. Also because it took place in two distantly different parts of public hall. There was the reception in the lobby, but then there was also a full concert in the main hall. When it came time to load the order, we had to load all the stuff for the concert into a semi because it was so much, then we loaded all of the lobby stuff into the standard 24' truck. All for one night.

One cool thing about prepping this event was that I got some console time. The main lighting control console they use it called the grandMA 2 which is about a $60,000 console and is a very high power, very complicated console. As part of all of this I got to play around a little and ben showed me a few things, which was pretty cool. Attached is a picture of that console too.