Light plots, hook-ups, and instrument schedules, renderings, softpatches, and personalities, cueing, track sheets, and magic sheets - the time-consuming process of lighting a show.
ETC's Emphasis? lighting control system does the work for you and lets you get back to the real art of lighting. From your first idea to opening night and beyond. One patch, one plot, one package. Emphasis is the first truly seamless Fusion of the world's best-selling line of control consoles with the world's leading lighting-design software - ETC's powerful Expression and Express? marry the New WYSIWYG?. No other system can do what Emphasis can do.
Make this your new Emphasis: revolutionary lighting control.
* One program, one system, one-time data entry & edit: one solution.
* WYSIWYG fully integrated.
* A powerful but user-friendly control system offering both a graphical, point-&-click environment and a tactile button??and??wheel interface.
* Express and Expression with real clout! All you had before, plus extra processing power for extra channels: from 500 to 5,000, with 32,000 dimmers, subroutines on submasters, hard-drive show storage, advanced tracking, macro screens... and WYSIWYG!
* The numbers can go away in an environment where the plot remains an interactive tool for selection and editing.
* Every link in the chain online and offline functionality for the designer to create, visualize & communicate, for the house electrician to draft, plan & report, and for the programmer to build the show using the best tools, at the right time, for the most efficient and flexible control imaginable!
* Consistency and accuracy with total integration of data across the tasks. Input data in any task, at any interface. The information is applied through the paperwork, on the light plot, in the patch, on reports, on screen in every view. Any changes anywhere in the system are immediately reflected anywhere else in the system where they have an impact.
* All existing Express, Expression 3, Expression 2x, Insight 3 and Insight 2x consoles can be upgraded to Emphasis Control Systems - give your Expression Emphasis!
Electronic Theater Controls
Since its founding by Fred Foster in 1975, ETC (Electronic Theatre Controls, Inc.) has become a global leader in award-winning entertainment and architectural lighting equipment. ETC's fixtures, lighting control consoles, dimmers and distribution products are the backbone of lighting systems in venues worldwide - from schools and churches, to community theaters and TV studios, to opera houses and theme parks.
Over the first decade of its history, ETC earned a reputation for sophisticated microprocessor-based lighting control consoles. By 1990, ETC had acquired Lighting Methods, Inc., a Rochester, New York-based manufacturer of entertainment dimming systems. ETC quickly became one of the largest fully-integrated entertainment lighting control manufacturers in North America, with offices in Middleton, WI; Orlando, FL; Rochester, NY; and Hollywood, CA. The next phase of growth began in 1995, when ETC acquired the lighting control division of London-based distributor ARRI GB. That same year, ETC opened an office in Hong Kong, extending its expansion into Asia. In 1997, ETC opened an office in Copenhagen, Denmark, to serve the Northern European market, and a year later opened an office in Rome, allowing greater access to Southern Europe. ETC acquired Transtechnik Lichtsysteme, Holzkirchen, Germany in 2002, widening ETC's market potential in Europe. Continuing its growth, ETC took an equity position in Avab France in 2003. In 2004, ETC acquired Dutch sine wave dimming manufacturer IES and its industrial weighing and measuring division Penko Engineering BV, both located in Veenendaal, the Netherlands. Beginning March 31, 2005, all formerly separate operations of ETC in Europe joined under the common corporate banner of ETC. ETC's new international headquarters, located in Middleton, WI (near the state capital Madison) serve as hub of global administration and manufacturing.
Through the years, ETC has gained an industry-wide reputation for outstanding service and customer support. ETC not only maintains in-house, 24-hour Technical and Customer Service staffs, but an extensive network of factory-trained, authorized field service centers.
Used Processor Units
Processor units, often simply known as a DSP audio processor, are a sound-processing device that alters the sound of auditory signals. The processing of the audio signals may be either digital or analog. The analog processing involves the direct operation of the electrical signal while the digital processing involves the mathematical operation on the digital representation of the audio signal.
The audio signals are typically known as sound waves that are transmitted through the air. These sound waves are measured in decibels or bels. These audio signals need processor units especially in radio broadcasting because the processor units link the transmitter with the rest of the sound system devices. There are various methods involved in the processing of both analog and digital signals. These include the following: storage, compression, transmission, equalization, noise cancellation, enhancement, level compression, echo, filtering and many more.
Analog processing is the physical alteration of the uninterrupted signal by modifying the voltage, the current or the charge with the use of electrical means. In earlier times, analog processing was the only method being used to modify signals before digital technology came into existence. With the evolution of computers and software, digital sound processing became the alternative to analog processing. The digital processor units use digital circuits like the microprocessors and computers to process audio signals. Digital processing deals with sound waves represented by binary numbers and deals with the sequence of these numbers. Nowadays, audio systems typically use the digital processing method because it is more powerful and proficient compared to analog signal processing.
