by Craig Rutherford
One tool that has never found its way into my workbox is a DMX tester. Over the years, I’ve tried a few in shops and at trade shows, and I never found one that quite fit into my workflow. In general, I’ve found that some of the popular models are either too fiddly to use, have poor visibility in low-light environments like a stage, and I even used one that required the user to memorize a series of colored lights and blinking patterns to figure out what was going on.
This seemed odd to me; after all, we live in an age where there’s an App For Everything. Why could our smartphones, tiny and capable computers most of us carry around on our person 24 hours a day, not be utilized as an interface for testing and controlling DMX devices? Today, we’re looking at the DMXcat device from City Theatrical, a widget that fills exactly this technological void I’ve been noticing.
Read the full review at http://plsn.com/current-issue/39-road-tests/22978-dmxcat-from-city-theatrical.html
www.citytheatrical.com/
Australian Distributors: Barbizon www.barbizon.com.au and Chameleon www.chameleon-touring.com.au
