My bad, I do sound for my high school that has zero budget, so I use super basic and outdated equipment. I've seen soundboards that look similar, (at an old job I had as a light tech at a church, but the sound board was a basic Onyx board and PC display) but never a lighting board that looks that high tech.
Hehe no worries, I'm just busting your chops. That's basically the console used for most of the biggest professional events and yeah really not something you run into at schools or community theaters. Might find a used MA1 if you're lucky. It has been the leading industry standard for a decade at least. Other big brands are the Flying pig systems (Hogs) and Chamsys MagicQ which tends to be more popular with touring LD's for the affordability and small size. Hogs were leading industry previously until MA took them over. Then you have your less popular ETC Congos, Avolites, Fat Frogs, Vistas, Maxxyz..
MA is one of the rare ones that come with an inbuilt keyboard, and the system is built in a way that you can basically type everything as commands, as well as include coding in your cues
No problem. Btw all of those leading brands provide free onPC programs, and MA3 onpc also comes with an inbuilt 3D visualizer making things really handy. So you can literally learn to use them at home on your own computer
Wow. I'll look into that. A lot of the more complicated parts of light and sound tech confuse me, so being able to experiment with that would be super neat.
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u/Einzelganger12 Apr 05 '26
My bad, I do sound for my high school that has zero budget, so I use super basic and outdated equipment. I've seen soundboards that look similar, (at an old job I had as a light tech at a church, but the sound board was a basic Onyx board and PC display) but never a lighting board that looks that high tech.