Mode Arcline
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Printed Date: 27 March 2026 at 8:55am
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Topic: Mode Arcline
Posted By: djeddie
Subject: Mode Arcline
Date Posted: 08 April 2020 at 7:51pm
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Still bored (and still in Facebook Jail, lmao*) and still going through on old HDD looking at old links and came across big clive's site, which I'd forgotten about... which led me to his YouTube channel... and the below video. Might be useful for some. I'd always wondered how it worked. *note to self: never, ever argue with an idiot. Especially one who thinks that CV19 is spread by 5g signals. ------------- Chas n Dave : it's like Drum and Bass but with beards. E=mc² ±3dB |
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Posted By: GAZ.
Date Posted: 08 April 2020 at 8:52pm
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I’d love to have some arcline, was looking for some a while back but seems there’s none around anymore. ------------- 100% Earth Moving Bass |
Posted By: James Tengo
Date Posted: 09 April 2020 at 12:54am
| I’ve got a small pile, was going to service it whilst it’s quiet.... |
Posted By: monkeypuzzle
Date Posted: 09 April 2020 at 9:30am
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I had a few pieces, once, not quite sure what happened to them. They were really a little to fragile for touring, great for a club install. I’m pretty sure one of the venues in the gay village here in manc still has about 8 pieces running up an outside wall! also had a rare DMX Arcline controller for a bit. Great effect, you could probably make something pretty similar with some high power leds these days but nothing will ever have the same hit as a xenon flash tube. ------------- blah blah blah blah blah...... |
Posted By: Bams
Date Posted: 09 April 2020 at 9:52am
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wow... that video was a flashback to nights spend at a campsite near the dutch coast.. with the only "club" (ahem...) in town running these around the dancefloor allmost all night.. soundtrack for it was Bailando by paradisio.... never knew this was such a clever design |
Posted By: Ionkontrol
Date Posted: 09 April 2020 at 6:59pm
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The End had 2 runs of it going down the middle of the dancefloor. Always reminded me of Battlestar Gallactica (80s version) Viper launches. |
Posted By: njw
Date Posted: 09 April 2020 at 7:44pm
| The first pub I had a residency at had the back fitted room fitted out as a small club and had loads of this in a zig zag pattern like a big lightning bolt across the ceiling above the dancefloor, I used to love bringing all the lights down during a breakdown so that the room would be pretty much pitch black and then I'd trigger the arcline to the beat when the bassline kicked back in, good times! |
Posted By: kedwardsleisure
Date Posted: 09 April 2020 at 11:05pm
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I've still got the brochures for arc line I had off the stand at PLASA! They also did some individual strobe pod thingies you could use off the same controller ------------- Kevin North Staffordshire |
Posted By: colint
Date Posted: 09 April 2020 at 11:08pm
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I had a cart load of it at one point (about 30 x 1mt lengths) I sold a lot of it to someone one here, can't remember who though ------------- Never criticise another man until you've walked a mile in his shoes. Once you have, call him what you like, you're a mile away and you've got his shoes! |
Posted By: monkeypuzzle
Date Posted: 10 April 2020 at 12:06am
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And then pulsar brought out flexi flash! ------------- blah blah blah blah blah...... |
Posted By: James Tengo
Date Posted: 10 April 2020 at 12:31am
I've got a few single pods but they are mains voltage fixed frequency, not arcline. I use them as comms strobes
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kedwardsleisure wrote:Posted By: simonp1100
Date Posted: 10 April 2020 at 10:32am
We had a load of this going around our tri-lite rig and it was controlled by one of the 0-10v analog outputs of our Pulsar masterpiece 216 (triggering on the bass beat) and we also did the same type of control with our two central effects (Taz Syncro's). Spent a lot of time programming it, but the end result was amazing. Happy days. 
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Posted By: Andylaser
Date Posted: 10 April 2020 at 3:14pm
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I had about a dozen pieces of this back in the day. I particularly well remember a squat party where I put 6 lengths along the ceiling of a coridor and another 6 along the floor in the opposite ditrection. Made it seem like the corridor was tumbling forwards and totally fucked up your balance and coordination.  ------------- "music so loud, that if we move in next door to you; your lawn will die" - Lemmy |
Posted By: jacethebase
Date Posted: 10 April 2020 at 3:43pm
Just what you want after 2 Mitzi turbos at 5am. ------------- www.wedding-production.co.uk www.stage2sound.com |
Posted By: DJ-Dulux
Date Posted: 10 April 2020 at 4:30pm
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Does a modern equivalent exist of arcline? Cheers, Dupe.... ------------- Dupe... |
Posted By: Boxes-R-Blue
Date Posted: 08 May 2020 at 10:07pm
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A bit like Strobe flowers, there will never be a "modern equivilent" but there are lots of less deadly options, Pixel Tape, even some of the better segmented batterns could all do the "arc-line" thing but you'll never have the fun of 1200mm of springy tinned copper (AKA BARE) wire connected directly to rectified mains wandering about on you bench as you try fault find a 4017 decade counter run hilariously off +340V line with +335V as earth.... What could go wrong????? ------------- Kinda Been there, Kinda done that, YOU COULDN'T handle my bar bill! |
Posted By: Harry A
Date Posted: 08 May 2020 at 10:55pm
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I was rather fascinated with arcline when I started out in this line of work not too long ago. I often hired it out when I could for our student night club and have fond memories of making IEC extensions for it and accidentally cutting though a lead when connected to the controller. The rectified mains made for a decent flash and left a rather nice circular hole in my wire cutters. Live and learn, right?
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Posted By: kedwardsleisure
Date Posted: 16 December 2022 at 10:10am
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Nice sparkly christmas job in today! Out with the scope and isolation transformer for fault finding. Not for the inexperienced unless you're tired of life. ------------- Kevin North Staffordshire |
Posted By: kedwardsleisure
Date Posted: 16 December 2022 at 10:13am
...................... ------------- Kevin North Staffordshire |