One company that decided to trial a system was renowned Sydney-based hire company Lots of Watts, who trialled the system at Hillsong Church's recent album recording at the Sydney Entertainment Centre. Daniel Monro from Lots of Watts says that the SEC is a venue in which they had tried other wireless DMX systems before, with disappointing results. "It would result in us having to run a lead up to the roof to make the system work," he said. "This time around, with the W-DMX units, we installed the receiver in the roof of the main arena to supply data for all the moving lights covering the audience, with the transmitter sitting at dimmer-land. Once the transmitter was sync'ed up to the receiver (which took less than 10 seconds), the system worked very well with little delay in response time."
Monro reports that the system did not miss a beat throughout the rehearsal and show and that it was very easy to set up and run. "The system worked so well that when we came in each day and powered up the system the units remained synched with each other," he said. "The Lots of Watts crew was very impressed with the reliability of the system."
(Lee Baldock)
