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The traproom is the space or room below the stage which is often used for scenic effects. The trap room can be opened to the stage

At our high school we have a Facilities Manager who looks after the use of our auditorium but he is mainly there for organisation and not the actual design or operation of shows/events. He doesn't know much about tech (he admits so himself), and leaves that up to the students/teachers. The thing...

Hi everyone, Last week someone used masking tape to put spike marks on our wooden stage floor. Today I found that the cleaners had mopped the stage and when I tried to get it off today, it left the adhesive stuck to the stage. Is there an easy way to get this off? I tried wetting some of it and...

I have a similar issue at the moment with our Music Director. Except he said he doesn't want to because the equipment is too fragile to move. It's a brand new Soundcraft GB9 and all the connections are there. Surely moving it out of the booth once a year isn't going to be an issue!

The Comet I know of is made by Theatrelight down here in New Zealand. It looks like it has recently been rebranded as a dimmer/controller combo. Theatrelight New Zealand Ltd

Hi everyone, We have just started hiring out our school auditorium to outside groups and I am looking for a way to make it possible for the hirer to turn on the stage lighting without opening up our control booth. It would just need to be a simple on/off of a pre-recorded state. I can only seem...

Little bit of a hijack here but the article mentions that PAR lamps are particularly susceptible to 'lamp sing'. I have definitely noticed this, particularly in our compact black-box-like theatre. It makes it difficult to use the parcans without having them at full because if too many of them...

Hello Everyone, I have been intrigued by a recent thread about using MTC to control lighting consoles. Our new console, a Theatrelight Cuemaster II doesn't have MIDI I/O however is does have a remote cue input jack on the back. It is a stereo TRS jack. The manual says that it can be triggered...

Hi Paul, I second what kiwitechgirl said in the previous post. We have had two powerpacks for the past 5 years and have never had any problems with them. We have also just bought two more packs for our hall. I would recommend getting these over the other Theatrelight dimmers because from the...

The traproom is the space or room below the stage which is often used for scenic effects. The trap room can be opened to the stage house by removable traps in the stage floor.

Hi Paul, At our school we have a single socket for each circuit. We have about 50 circuits wired in the building even though we only have 24 dimmers. However we have enough three phase sockets to hire in extra dimmers if we need, so don't worry if you have more circuits than dimmers. In regard...

Wow kiwitechgirl, I'll definitely have to make an effort to get to the Civic Theatre, it looks amazing! Our drama teacher calls them domes though when I asked her today she said she didn't know why she called them that.

Hi all, I couldn't find a thread about this so I'll start a new one. I know it's generally frowned upon to test a mic with "Testing, testing, 1 2 3" but sometimes I struggle to come up with something else to say. I know one tech that makes a popping sound in the mic. What do you say when...

I love this! :lol:

Could you please let us know how it turns/turned out GHSStageManager? Next year I'm hoping to do exactly what you have talked about for your cuurent production and would like to know how it went. Thanks, Aidan