Stagehand 101: DMX

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True story. We were loading in and setting up for a big show using labor provided by a labor company. The call was large enough that we knew that not all of the hands had a lot of experience with live events. After we floated the truss, hung the lights, ran the power and data cables, I started checking the DMX addresses against the DMX schedule. When I …