I'm John Huntington, author of Control Systems for Live Entertainment, the first book on show control and entertainment control systems. Zircon Designs is my entertainment control system and audio consulting, design and implementation firm, but Control Geek is an open, non-commercial site, including many companies and resources related to show control.
While Control Systems for Live Entertainment covers entertainment control systems for all aspects of the live entertainment industry, and my blog covers a broad array of topics, the resources on this site focus on show control, technologies that allows a system designer to connect more than one show system together into a "meta" system. There are many other sites out there that cover lighting, sound, machinery, pyro, etc. This page is intended to be a clearing house for information about show control, so if I've missed anything, or you have any comments or suggestions, please let me know.
I'm in the process of dubbing off the last of some cassettes I found in my mother's old room, and I was struck by the advancement in technology. The little silver Zoom box at the bottom is a full on, solid state digital recorder with a USB port, built in microphones, etc etc etc. And the cost? Probably about 1/4 the price of the original cassette deck.
Wednesday, June 25, 2008 at 11:05AM
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