Booth Pictures :)

Here's a couple of quick photos I snapped at a Pub theatre that I've been working at this week. Really cool space, I am operating from the wings instead of in the auditorium and it seems to work a treat.
Lighting is running from an ETC Nomad (very cool!), sound is a program called Cue, basic but does the trick into a Yahama digital mixer (forgot what model they had!).

Sorry I didn't manage to get more pictures, I'll try if I get time tonight but no guarantees

K ... A little background and history on my space....

This is the booth for the Court House Theatre
This is the original theatre for the Shaw Festival Theatre

It's a large, almost 200 year old pink walled banquet hall

Then at the end of March we load it in through a 3rd floor fire escape door with a scissor lift and crane.
And then out again 2nd week of October....

I'm running the ETC Gio and Audio has the DM 1000 running QLab (he has a fairly nice set up)



This is a Picture of the Festival Booth from when I was the Operator there...
We had the Strand 520 at the time
Much larger booth, very nice and on your own with a door that locks and a bathroom in the spot booth between me and Audio on the other side....

I'm jealous of all of you. The "booth" I typically work in has a Lite-On 2x12 board connected to a Teatronics Genesis 1224 dimmer pack for lighting and a Behringer Xenyx 502 mixer connected to a Chinese car stereo. For audio input devices, I have a cassette tape player and a cd player.

What I actually use is my laptop connected directly to the Behringer and an OpenDMX dongle bypassing the Lite-On board.

It's embarrassing enough describing it. I wouldn't dare post a picture.

kenact said:

I'm jealous of all of you. The "booth" I typically work in has a Lite-On 2x12 board connected to a Teatronics Genesis 1224 dimmer pack for lighting and a Behringer Xenyx 502 mixer connected to a Chinese car stereo. For audio input devices, I have a cassette tape player and a cd player.

What I actually use is my laptop connected directly to the Behringer and an OpenDMX dongle bypassing the Lite-On board.

It's embarrassing enough describing it. I wouldn't dare post a picture.

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No need to be embarrased, most of us have worked in situations like that. And all of us are jealous of others setups. There is always something bigger and better out there that you would love to add to your current rig.

techieman33 said:

No need to be embarrased, most of us have worked in situations like that. And all of us are jealous of others setups. There is always something bigger and better out there that you would love to add to your current rig.

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Same here. It's one of those jobs. Since I was taking a pic of something else for another thread I did a pano shot ( new feature for the iPad ) of the booth.

https://twitter.com/tupakkshakkur/status/539114894071975936

Guess it was to big for upload so posted it to Twitter.

My home for the one show I do a year.

Here's the newest version of my home booth, with an x32 I've grown very fond of...

My nest for the week, a small community theater in bad need of an upgrade




Yes you saw right, we have TWO light boards for ~15 fixtures!

Now with sound effects:

The booth at my main theater:


The director normally runs sound via iTunes on their laptop


Lights done using QLC+ with an APC Mini controlling with midi. We have 10 channels of dimming running pars, and 5 generic RGB LEDs.


For our current show we have 2 vocal mics, and we always have 9 mics over the stage that come out 3 speakers over the audience. All of that is mixed through a presonus 16.4.2.


View from the lighting/sound position.

Edit: pictures didn't show up, will update soon

Here is one of two of the theaters I regularly do productions in

48 Leko's
24 Source4's
16 Strip lights
4 Scoops
4 Unique2 hazer systems
32 slimpar 64's (backstage work lights)
4 slimpar 64's (cue system)
grandMA2 for control (3 computers 3 separate circuits, 2 main, 1 backup)
1 computer running Timelord for audio and video (Tied to grandMA2 for triggering)
1 computer for video cameras (6 Total)
4 overhead mics patched to mains, booth, greenroom
4 wireless mics
Mackie Onyx 32.4 for audio
6 JBL monitors in booth, green room

707lineman said:

Here is one of two of the theaters I regularly do productions in

48 Leko's
24 Source4's
16 Strip lights
4 Scoops
4 Unique2 hazer systems
32 slimpar 64's (backstage work lights)
4 slimpar 64's (cue system)
grandMA2 for control (3 computers 3 separate circuits, 2 main, 1 backup)
1 computer running Timelord for audio and video (Tied to grandMA2 for triggering)
1 computer for video cameras (6 Total)
4 overhead mics patched to mains, booth, greenroom
4 wireless mics
Mackie Onyx 32.4 for audio
6 JBL monitors in booth, green room

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Makes me think of a 911 Communications Center.

techwiz24 said:

My nest for the week, a small community theater in bad need of an upgrade

Yes you saw right, we have TWO light boards for ~15 fixtures!

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Why?

Our small community theater operates out of a retired movie theater. The control booth is in the balcony. No enclosure. Audience can hear people in balcony even if we speak in low tones. Before I stage-managed "9 to 5" with them, someone had decided that the stage manager couldn't call shows there because the audience could hear. Crew had scripts and took their own cues. I said I was calling the show, period. Whispers + hand gestures. Up for warn, down for go. The light board is a manual two-scene preset.

Zelma said:

Why?

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The two light boards? Probably because "that's the way we've always done it" and nobody there likes patching. (they haven't even technically had a dedicated TD before this year) the newer board powers the auxiliary lights right in front of the nest which run off of newer dimmer packs like those you'd see on a tree.

The primary board is really old and not all of the channels work. I don't even know if the dimmer packs we use run off of DMX so it may be impossible to run everything off of one board unless we get new ones.

hey there I'm new to the Forum, thought i would start by sharing my home away from home. Im the Technical Director at my theatre, we do 500+ shows a year and these are my tools to get the job done.

FOH -
Yamaha M7CL
Martin M1
Martin Maxedia
CSC Show Control (Fully redundent)


The Rig -

68 - Par 64s
- 10 with CMY scrollers
- 6 with color scrollers

65 - S4 Lekos

50+ - Par 54s (rain curtain)

12 - 6x8 Leko

7 - Six Cell CYC

12 - COLORband Pix

8 - Rush Par 1

8 - Pro Par 336

8 - COLORdash Quad

6 - Mac700 Profiles

4 - HES Studio Spot 250

2 - VL3000 Spot

2 - Alpha Spot 575 HPE

1 - Le Maitre G300 MK2

1 - Martin Jem Compact Pro

Here's a pic of my home from 3 years ago, and one from today with all my upgrades

Before:

After:
(Yes I know I am in desperate need of a cleanup...)

Update: I cleaned it mostly out today:

Thats an express 24/48 and my VW/LW/audio computer