Comments on: Band Lighting Gels – Best Filter Colours To Light Your Gig

By: Nick Saiki

Nick Saiki — Wed, 26 May 2010 01:56:54 +0000

Hey everybody, I know everyone has mentioned Rosco and Lee as the main gels to use, but if you’re looking for a good white color gel I’ve found GAM 872 to have less of the red and green that R60 and L201/202 tend to have.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:16:48 +0000

By the way, if I recall, the demo is limited to 2 lights at a time.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:13:54 +0000

Hi Tommy,

The software I used was a demo of Virtual Light Lab from Future-Light.com.

Available here: http://www.future-light.com/products/vll.html

There’s a screen shot on the home page.

Steve

By: TOMMMY

TOMMMY — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:47:21 +0000

On June 12, Steve mentioned some “Color-Mixing Software”. Anyone have recommendations? Are these free-ware or share-ware?
I’m trying to determine which (and how many) gels to use in my stage spot.
It’s a Chauvet 400G, ~350W Halogen, but the color chips are only about 1″ square, about 2″ from the lamp and have to spread over a roughly 7′ circle about 30′ away. I’m thinking I’ll need at least 2 layers of gel to get the intensity of color I want. Would the software be able to help me ?
Thanx !

By: Rob Sayer

Rob Sayer — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:08:56 +0000

Thanks L the C, an error slipped in there.

By: Lampie The Clown

Lampie The Clown — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 01:59:30 +0000

I also like the L 156 chocolate. It’s Rosco equivalent is R 99.

BTW, you mention L126, and list its Rosco equivalent as R04. I believe it’s R49. 04 is a bastard amber.

Nice site!

By: TOMMMY

TOMMMY — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:12:25 +0000

Hi, All !
I’ve been looking for a forum like this for ages, but it’s not quite what I need.
Does anyone know of a forum devoted to rock band spotlighting?
I’m a roadie/follow-spot for a local Twin Cities 80’s cover band, and have been “developing” my style by trial-and-error (much of the last !)
All our shows use either in-house stage lighting, or small scale ( 6-10 PARs) set-up by the sound tech.
We’re using a Chauvet 400G, nice cheap little unit, with 7 gels, only 3 of which I can stand to use. I’d like to switch the unuseable colors for ones more suitable for FOH/followspot use.
If any of you know of a forum devoted to follow-spot techniques, please reply here, or email me at RISROADIE@aol.com.
Thanx for any info !
TOMMMY

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:08:46 +0000

Try L141 for blue. It has a good 18.5% transmission compared to 132 of 8% and is a truer blue.

By: Rob Sayer

Rob Sayer — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:55:02 +0000

Thanks K

By: Kjetil

Kjetil — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:43:39 +0000

“Lee 201 Full CTB or Lee 201 Half CTB”

That’s L202 Half CTB, kids.