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Leave It to the Pros: Why DIY Cleaning of Lighting Dimmer Racks Might Not Be a Bright Idea

Lighting dimmer racks are the unsung heroes of the entertainment industry, playing a crucial role in controlling and regulating the intensity of stage lighting. While routine maintenance is essential for their optimal performance, attempting to clean dimmer racks on your own could lead to more harm than good. In this blog, we'll shed light on why enlisting professional expertise for dimmer rack maintenance is a wise decision.

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Should you hang that? - A Rigging Primer

Speakers work more efficiently when hung, lights wouldn’t light very well if they could only be set on the floor, and you couldn’t see a video screen very well if it wasn’t suspended in some way. In the production world, hanging things–whether from existing structure (the building) or by building additional structure–is called rigging, and we do it all the time. While procedures exist for making sure the resulting product is safe, that doesn’t mean everyone follows those procedures, or is even aware that there is a procedure.

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