BIEKE: that stage with the blue lights ...

[T3]

1. neon tubes will not dim like normal lights, you need to re-wire them with new ballast, its not cheap, but not expensive. http://www.lightsearch.com/resources/lightguides/ballasts.html

2. pars would look totally different, and not nearly as good...

3. if you want to do this for a one-off gig just hire the tubes, i'm sure any decent stage lighting company near you would have ready-converted dimmable tubes...

[birt]

Originally posted by monkeyland you could easily do that with some par64 cans underneath the riser. if they are too bright point them up at the floor of the riser and let the ambient light spill out. and of course you could connect these to any sort of light controller to make them flash. of maybe put another set of different colored lights under there and set them to crossfade on each other

 

 

sure and they are way easier to dim and flash. but the effect will be totally different than with the fluorescent light, less diffuse and the light quality of a PAR spot is totally different too. and even with a CP62 PAR the beam isn't wide enough if you put them right under the drummers stage. they also get very hot (more than 300

[birt]

Originally posted by T3 1. neon tubes will not dim like normal lights, you need to re-wire them with new ballast, its not cheap, but not expensive. http://www.lightsearch.com/resources/lightguides/ballasts.html 2. pars would look totally different, and not nearly as good... 3. if you want to do this for a one-off gig just hire the tubes, i'm sure any decent stage lighting company near you would have ready-converted dimmable tubes...

 

 

that's it