hi I'm Jordan I'm a lighting designer
and lighting programmer based out of
Vancouver BC and in this video I want to
compare the campus MQ ad with the Martin
or relation now M to go just in terms of
background the M to go has been my
working console for the last two years
or so so I definitely have a far deeper
range of experience in the world of
Martin I've had the campus MQ ad here
for about three or four days so far the
campus has really impressed me and made
me consider switching to the campuses
system so in terms of comparing the two
just top to bottom you can see on the
Martin I had to put an external monitor
on it that didn't come with it the new
empty go HDS have the monitor built-in
so we're just gonna pretend like that
comes with to go now
just because if you were to buy a new
one now it would so starting very basic
stuff you'll see the MQ ad here is on my
right I can undo the power cable and
it's still running which is pretty cool
there's an internal battery backup power
protection system I have seen YouTube
videos of Martin guys there's one
particular reason in a rap show and some
reason a break or blue or something at
front-of-house and he was down for a
minute and a half and his entertainer is
act that he was traveling with was
rapping in the dark for about 90 seconds
while I reboot his machine and solved
the power problem so it's not a huge
thing for most people but that one in a
thousand moment that could be pretty
critical on the other side as you just
saw when I held up the plug it uses
power cons it's a locking connector I
have been programming a couple times on
them to go and my foot will bump the
IEC cable as you can see isn't I mean
it's just I see cable into a power
supply it's not blocking connector it
also it definitely can come undone so
that's one improvement that I like about
the MQ 80 so far in terms of playbacks
so that I'm to go as 10 playbacks
the campus also has 10 play backs with
faders but what's cool about the campus
is there's a master a submaster and a
cross fader and each of those can be
reassigned so if you want if you prefer
to have Turkey and playbacks you don't
get the select button and everything
with them but if you just wanted to put
like a Hayes machine on your crossfade
playback and that fits your purpose
better for a particular event you can do
that you can put your early leek O's or
something on the sub master you can do
that as well which is a lot more
flexible the other really cool thing is
with the campus when you first boot it
up and you go to the kind of the default
programming screen once you get your
patch done the palettes are for most
mainstream fixtures are already
pre-created on the Martin you have to go
through and create all your palettes
create all your colors create all your
positions obviously you will still want
to create some of your custom ones like
downstage upstage all that but they like
for the positions it comes with like
center left right and for moving lights
add a key you can bump together some
looked really fast which is I work
mostly in the corporate world and a lot
of the time you don't know what's coming
next so ability to quickly put stuff
together like that is good you can do it
in the Martin on the programmer as well
but yeah that's it's just faster on the
campus and then in terms of encoders you
can see here we have four encoders on
the side two here two here on the Martin
you have four encoders up top you do
have this little touchscreen down here
but I found that mostly the touchscreen
here duplicates what's on the screen
here so I haven't found
that to be too effective it has saved me
once actually it's having sits for
whatever reason the yellow like the
touchscreen here died and so I was
busking off the little screen on the
bottom it is kind of nice to have a
backup but I think the soft buttons here
are a lot faster and as you can see here
all the encoders and stuff are redundant
to the touchscreen so this button here
does the same as tapping the screen
there which is good in terms of outputs
they both have four universes the DMX
and then network the campus has four
network outputs so it has like a built
in switch which is again faster and a
little more convenient a little more
value there the campus also has MIDI the
mem to go the MIDI would have to be an
upgrade that I would have had to buy as
an add-on what else is there in terms of
overall flow so say you're in your color
picker you can reassign the crossfade to
be a busking rate master which means
that if you're just selecting fixtures
and selecting colors I got a corporate
event somebody says hey make all the up
lights blue but there's a presenter on
the stage and you need to do that like
immediately in a way that is not abrupt
if you if you have the crossfade say set
is a busking rate master you can just
select your fixtures hit blue and then
this will determine the fade time
anywhere between zero and ten seconds so
if you have that set up five you can do
that on the keypad too I think on both
consoles for sure on the canvas but it
is just if you're into the graphic
interview interface campus does it a bit
better the downside in terms of the
screens on the m2 go HD you can tilt the
screen to whatever angle you want on the
campus I find that in order to be
working
efficiently and not hunched over the
console you really have to be standing
up I really wish that the little screen
here was on some sort of a little pivot
see even if you had like 10 degrees just
so when you're sitting behind a desk or
sitting behind a booth you could
actually see the screen a little bit
better but I'm sure that I don't know
why they did it that way probably a bit
cheaper just to permanently mount it the
way it is
everything else is yeah you can do an
external monitor on the campus I was
concerned as you can see here on the
Martin system I really like having all
my play backs and palettes and stuff on
a play back page this wasn't immediately
obvious on the campus but I did find
that they have what they call an execute
page where you can make a grid exactly
like this if that's how you want to do
it so you can make all your colors all
your positions you can put it on an
external monitor or you can pull it up
on the screen that's in it and do it
that way or you can bust off the faders
and the main program or the yeah the
programmer I guess and and then also the
huge thing that is won us over on the
campus side is its computer program I
think the computer companion to it is
both PC Mac and Linux compatible with
the m2 go I had to have MPC on parallels
on my Mac and it was just a pain every
time I open parallels I'd to worry about
all the Windows updates and then that
but here I can work natively in Mac
which is a bit nicer for me since that's
way all my laptops are and our team's
laptops and then the other really cool
thing is on the mac app or PC app as
well there's a free built-in visualizer
that like seriously in less than five
minutes you can bang together a bunch of
truss and lay it all out and you can
actually be seen what you're programming
and then when you're at a show you can
hook up your laptop to a network cable
and you can grab this show from your
laptop through the network cable so then
they'll show is on your so say you're
working on your show
on your laptop you plug it into the
console if you grab it the show now
lives on the console so it's working
that way and then you can at the same
internet cable you can use your laptop
as the visualizer so if you're at an
event and the rigs not quite up yet you
can still be working on the visualizer
as an excellent display and using the
full console for programming MPC kind of
has that option there's a USB option but
it would still 100% be running off your
laptop and you would be at the mercy of
Windows updates and all those types of
things again you like basically converts
them to go into a wing for your PC the
show would live on your PC so it seems
like it's a bit more reliant and
problematic that way so for the price
range there almost there basically the
same I think at this point you know what
way we stand so we are looking at
getting rid of all of our Martyn stuff
at this point and moving to the campus
MQ 80 it just seems like it's a lot more
has a lot more Pro features and the fact
that I can work natively on my laptop
and then grab the show in about 10
seconds on the console and the
visualizer being free for like Martin
yet Martin has a visualizer but it's 600
bucks a year or something like that so
it's just not the value seems on my cams
aside but yeah that's it if you have any
questions definitely post in the comment
section below and I will get back to you
and hopefully I'll keep making more
videos to help out anybody else who's
looking to make a similar decision
awesome thanks