LightSoundJournal.com: Even if you are brand new to the stage lighting industry, you will have almost definitely have heard the terms DMX, ArtNet and RDM. For those new to the technology, these can often be confusing concepts. In this article, we’ll go right from the basics of these terms through to an in-depth look at their technical aspects.
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First of all, the most important thing about this article is that it was written by a guy named Steve Irwin. Second of all, I am all for using Ethernet to transport a greater number of universes in one cable. I am not super knowledgeable about Ethernet used in the lighting world, but it seems like the lighting equivalent of a digital snake. And I love digital snakes. They just take a garden hose- sized cable and make it a like the size of a phone cable. In high school, for our concerts, we used to have to block off an area of hallway that ran adjacent to the theatre just for running snakes from the board at the front of the house to the wings. We would use all of the house snakes available, and then run another three or four snakes down that hall. After we the digital snake, we could just run the one Ethernet through the house. Only ever had to run extra DMX universes through our house once (our house DMX connection could usually support the scope of shoe we did in our auditorium), but that one cable run took forever and was super annoying to gaff.
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