Origin

Let me introduce myself, my name is Aaron Greco - I'm the one who is behind Blue Orchard Lights - from prop building, electrical, signal routing, programming, setting up and tearing down, etc. - it's all me.

Let’s start off with the background of all this: From my early childhood, I always was interested in electricity, speakers, lights, and working with my hands. I’m not sure what made me like all of this stuff since my parents are the complete opposite of tech-savvy or handy with tools or electrical work, but somehow it locked on to me.

Ever since my friend showed me YouTube back in 2013, I haven’t stopped watching videos daily and learning new things; say I wanted to know more about DMX lighting, well, I’ve got tons of videos to show me how it works - just the same as nearly any other topic. - A lot of people ask where I have learned all the things I know, and the answer is that I am completely self-taught; it took far too many hours of YouTube videos to get where I am today.

Back in 2015 was when I started to take the display a little bit more serious, a few years prior I got my first controller from Spirit Halloween (or whatever their old name was), it was a 6 channel on/off relay box made by Gemmy, it synced the lights to a few generic Halloween songs and I thought it was the coolest thing ever, So I set up lights outside in a graveyard and they did their flashing to the music.

Over the years, I began to learn about DMX lighting, and got my first DMX controller, a Chauvet Obey 3, then I upgraded to an Obey 40. Once I got the Obey 40 and did my 2018 Halloween show... I was confident that I could step up my game. In December of 2018 I finally went up a notch and got a Light-O-Rama controller (which was supposed to be a Christmas gift, but begged to open it early). At that point, I had 16 dimmer channels that I could control however I wanted.

For the 2019 Halloween season, I began to build props in the summer, and from there on everything took off; I started buying tons more moving head lights, lasers, scanners; more dimmer packs, geysers/fog machines, etc. since now I could control DMX lights and timecode a show!

Most of the lights I buy are broken and I repair them, and when I want to upgrade, I sell the old ones that I had repaired. Fun fact, both of the Hurricane 1800 flex fog machines I have were repaired by me, they are a discontinued and much higher quality model than the one being sold currently, I am glad I was able to fix them.

I am very hopeful for the future of BOL, and can’t wait to build more and more props and make the show even bigger; I am glad to see people come by and enjoy the show, it makes it all worth it.

If there was one thing I could tell any kid today, it is to learn as much as possible while you are really young. Whatever you are interested in, explore it completely. My hope is to inspire at least one person to start learning about lighting/sound/tech and create their own show, and hopefully be at my knowledge level when they are even younger than me! Never stop learning.