The effect is immediate and if your finger is fast enough, it'll give the illusion that the whole show is computerized from just a few perfectly synced mines.Įach time the soundtrack changes, move your finger to the lower buttons and hit the next fused chain cue. Then, depending on how many mines you have, you can hit mine cues on any big musical beat you want. Start your show with cue 24 (or the first cue tied to a fuse) as soon as the music starts. Then all the cues 1 through whatever should just be on mines. Those cues should each be wired to your fused segments as well as mines on each side.

Set up your cues so the last 5 or 6 (or however many song segments you have) are at the end or beginning of your buttons (like 24 through 32 or something). Leave lots of time between song segments if you can stomach it. You can do some really rough time calcs and try to have several segments fused on independent strings to sort of mirror the time of whatever your soundtrack is. (only a few degrees, not sideways).įuse together whatever 1.4 product you think makes sense for the type of music you're using.

Put the mines in two stations on either side of your main show, angled out slightly if you have the room. I've found an easy way to do this with minimum fuss and get maximum reaction from your audience: Get a case of 1.4 mines and several racks for mines ONLY. It did make sense then and it doesn’t make sense now. If I went Cobra I was looking at over $2500 just for the firing system. I then was able to pick up 2 “15 loudspeakers, stands, mixer, and cables for all the audio and still come in less than $2k.

It was around $1500 after I picked up the pro system, batteries, and cat5 cables. I knew I wanted to go up to 100+ cues for my backyard ID4 party so I went with the WPS pro system. I know Cobra systems are all the rage but they are pricey and I have yet to figure out why people like them other than they like the name and don’t like money. It was the cheapest cue per dollar for a professional (ish) backyard system that I could find and has work flawlessly the past 4 years. I scraped all of that and went with a real firing system WPS out of the UK. Had three of my buddies trying to keep up with the ipod. It got bad when I had 8 remotes trying to fire like 80 cues all scripted out on a spread sheet and the tunes off of an ipod hooked up to a cheap sounds system. I did it 2-3 years off of those simple 12 channel Chinese firing systems that you see on ebay.

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