First presented at the 1994 PLASA Show, the Wholehog II was the successor to the original Wholehog, which itself had grown out of Nick Archdale's earlier DLD console and his work lighting raves. With the first Hog he, Tom Thorne and Nils Thorjussen went big: 6000 channels across 12 DMX universes in 1992!
For their sequel, they went the other way. The first Hog's 12 rotary encoders, 23 built-in LCD displays and many buttons were replaced with two touchscreens. You used the screens to spell out what you wanted: the backlight group pointing down centre in red in a dot gobo. Or the lights moving in a wave, no need to program a chase step-by-step. It's really the way all consoles look and work now, except they've added colour to their displays.
Sadly the Hog Il's fabled 'instalook' button, able to give you new states based loosely on what you were doing when you just needed some inspiration late at night wasn't so widely copied!

Wholehog II
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Wholehog II External Screen
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Wholehog II Left Hand Screen
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Wholehog II Rear Panel
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Wholehog II Right Hand Screen
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