Club Lexi

Club Lexi is a basement trapped under a ceiling just short of ten feet. If I used standard box truss, patrons would be hitting their heads on the moving lights. I hung the entire lighting system from strut channel anchored straight through the drywall into the joists. Working flush against a ceiling leaves zero room to hide a mess. Everything is exposed. I laid out the fixtures in straight lines so I could bundle the cables into tight runs.

An electrician dropped power on dedicated switches, letting the venue kill half the rig early in the night without touching the software. I packed 64 fixtures into the space. I programmed the presets alone on the dance floor with the music blasting. Putting moving heads right above people means watching every inch of clearance. My rule was to never have all fixture types on at the same time. Firing everything at once in a room that low was blinding and unpleasant.

The venue operates without a technician, so a Wolfmix controller sat in the booth for the DJs. Handing them live control immediately exposed the weak points. They dragged fade times to a crawl and assumed the rig was broken when the lights stopped moving. They also mashed the strobe button until the room was unreadable. I locked the hazer to a low-output toggle, built pre-programmed looks to enforce my lighting rules, and set up a hard reset so they could not trap the program.