Re: [LCtalk] Submaster Faders?

[Jon Daggett]

Fokko / Natty,

> > conventional lighting board, a submaster is essentially a fader 
> > dedicated to controlling a cue.

Now I know what you are talking about.

> Are submasters really working during one cue only?

Natty is right, on a lighting console, you can indeed assign a "cue" to 
a submaster fader.  In the examples Fokko gave, you would have to have 
the right combination of light channels selected and that also is 
changing the actual channels.

In what Natty is describing, it's just like running a cue, except that 
you can manually fade it in/out or run it at a certain % of original 
value.  You can also manually mix different cues together using 
different "submasters".

So, in sense, the term "submaster" on a lighting console, really doesn't 
mean what it sounds like it would, and is not like a "submaster" on an 
audio console or similar device.


Jon