PMC Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 (edited) As like others involved in this hobby, you are fronted with many questions from the people watching your show with the "How You Do That?", so that gave me an idea, I have a spare FM Transmitter and I found an open frequency for me to broadcast on and I spent about an hour setting up the system and what I did was recorded 12 minutes of me talking about whats involved with making the lights do what they do, from electrical connections and computer cables to how a sequence is created even where they can buy the equipment to do their own light show, And what I did is the audio playing behind my voice is the music from the light show in real time, so they can still watch and listen, but now they get a "Directors Commentary Channel" just like on a DVD. The vocal part is played through Winamp on a loop and I took the audio out of a spare FM Radio and used that as my "live" music background "played low" so not to drown me out with vocal overlap" and to top it off I did a small sign that said "Listen to the Lights on 88.3FM or you can Listen to the "How To" Channel" on 90.1FM sponsored by Light-O-Rama I also do a song/lights Play List in order of play, so if someone is listening to Silver Bells by Kate, and they want Wizards in Winter, they can guess how long they got to hear itI did this so when I'm not outside people where they can't get the answers, they can tune to the alternate FM channel and get some idea on how it's done, I didn't do this so I can stay behind the curtain and tell people to "Pay no mind to that person behind the curtain" like in Wizard of OZ Edited December 14, 2012 by PMC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bisquit476 Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 That's a very good idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 Interesting idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orville Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 Nice idea. Now I'll know what to do with the spare FM Transmitter I'll have after I had planned to replace it with an EDM, hopefully sometime next year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Push Eject Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 Awesome. Falls under the why didn't I think of that category! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Fischer Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 Cool idea. I don't think I'll do it, though. I kind of like to keep the display "magical". I do have some voiceovers that direct people to our website, where they can find all sorts of techy/geeky info on how we do it. But I"m not sure I want to destroy the magic of the display experience itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PMC Posted December 17, 2012 Author Share Posted December 17, 2012 I've had nothing but positive feedback from the crowd, but now I am answering more questions, which is fine next year, I'm just doing a "playlist" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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