Booth Acoustics and Windows

[venuetech]

expanded metal doors could be used insted of sheet metal. That way you could easly operate with the doors closed or open.


the other thing to do is during rehersal put an experinced tech in the house who can give you acurate mix info. perhaps the two of you can tag team as board ops. do this often enuf and when you are in the booth you will be able to better judge what is happening in the house.

[museav]

Learning what the audience hears in various locations throughout the audience area and how that relates to what you hear at the mix position is a good practice in any situation.

[ruinexplorer]

I was TD for a theater where the mix position for one space was behind glass and it could not be removed (nor would it have helped since the position was above the balcony). For musicals, we would pull house seats and put the console in the balcony (helped but still not ideal). The rest of the time we relied on a monitor mix with dedicated microphones positioned in the house. This worked reasonably well for playback and spoken word reinforcement. The other theater (two main stages and a blackbox in this space) had a dedicated sound booth with removable windows. Problem was, the balcony has sound traps so you could never hear things correctly there either so we'd supplement with a dedicated monitor system as well (headphones to listen to mix). Again, for musicals we'd remove seats in the house and pull the console out of the booth.