RESOURCES

SPS has a library of materials we prepared for staff and client training over the years and are making them generally available to the live event support industry. You'll find articles about the equipment we provide and the worksheets we use to design live shows which you can download and print if you wish. These materials are suitable for viewing on handheld devices or printing. We hope these materials will be useful for the industry and invite questions and comments about how we can make these better or more accurate. This is just a small sampling of things to come as the migration from paper to the web is time consuming process, so feel free to check back from time to time for new additions.

In addition to training manuals for the controller devices, there are controller schedules, along with patch, chase, scene, step, and fixture schedules. Controller schedules provide the top level view of how a controller is set up and what fixtures it controls. Patch schedules document how dmx channels have be reassigned to faders. Chase and scene schedules list out what each looks like or does. Step schedules document the specific settings for chases and scenes. Fixture schedules are either blank fill-in forms or provide detailed information about how a specific fixture operates and are used to further document controller details.

Other information available includes general information about lighting truss and some wiring diagrams.

If you find these materials useful, you may freely link to them as you wish and sharing them on social media is encouraged. Each item is specially set up for convenient sharing.

Forms are designed for printing using Microsoft Edge browser.