The lighting guide is broken down into two sections. The first talks about lighting in general and gives useful information for anyone who wants to know the basics of lighting. The second section goes into the equipment that backstage uses on a regular basis.

• Basic Lighting
• Moving Head Lights
  • DMX Tables
  • Scanners and Moving Heads. What's the difference?
• DMX
  • What is DMX?
  • How does DMX work?
  • DMX cabling
  • DMX and patching

Also refered to as generic lights

• Parcans - includes how to tell a wide from a medium from a narrow
• Source Four Fixed
• Source Four Zoom
• Source Four Jnr Zoom
• Fresnels
• Selecon Huis(Floodlights)
• Specials

Scanners:

• Robe 250 club scan

Moving Heads:

• Martin MAC500 Legancy article
• Martin MAC600 Legancy article
• Robe MsZoom 250 XT
• Robe Wash 250 XT
• Robe ColorSpot 575 AT
• Robe ColorWash 575 AT
• Robe ColorSpot 700 AT
• Robe ColorWash 700 AT

• ETC Congo Jr
• ETC Expression 3
• Zero 88 Jester 24/48
• Avolites Pearl 2000/2004
• Pulsar Masterpiece 108
• Zero88 Lightmaster XLS retired
• Strand MX retired

Lighting Accessories/effects units

• Dimmers
• Unique Hazer
• ZR33

Credits:
The Backstage Lighting Guide was written by Chris Dickson and is © BTS 2000. Updates made by Colin Paxton © BTS 2008
No reproduction in whole or in part in any means whatsoever is permitted without written consent.