Anonymous067
Active Member
I have a bit of a predicament...
Our house system has 6 inputs located backstage for the pit or backstage mics.
I will probably be running a talent show in the space this February. Also, the musical in the spring.
As the title states, I'd like to run a 16 channel snake back there. Problem, there isn't a good way to do it. For rehearsal sake (this is speaking for the talent show, where tear down is required and "load in" is an hour before the first show), I'll have to just throw it over seats or up the isle. But for the show....
Right now, I'm actually betting my money on out the booth window, under the back row of seats (off to a side) and down the last column of seats up to the side. Somewhere I'll have to "couple" a second snake in to continue the run backstage.
But for the musical, that's not going to fly. Our TD refuses to see any cable during the show, no matter how hard you have to look to find it.
I've considered renting a very long snake (possibly digital? cat 5? which we have run back there via walls...) and going up into the cats...but then again, I'd have to go through a door and couple multiple snakes to get back there.
**** designers... who puts SIX channels backstage for the pit anyhow???
Our house system has 6 inputs located backstage for the pit or backstage mics.
I will probably be running a talent show in the space this February. Also, the musical in the spring.
As the title states, I'd like to run a 16 channel snake back there. Problem, there isn't a good way to do it. For rehearsal sake (this is speaking for the talent show, where tear down is required and "load in" is an hour before the first show), I'll have to just throw it over seats or up the isle. But for the show....
Right now, I'm actually betting my money on out the booth window, under the back row of seats (off to a side) and down the last column of seats up to the side. Somewhere I'll have to "couple" a second snake in to continue the run backstage.
But for the musical, that's not going to fly. Our TD refuses to see any cable during the show, no matter how hard you have to look to find it.
I've considered renting a very long snake (possibly digital? cat 5? which we have run back there via walls...) and going up into the cats...but then again, I'd have to go through a door and couple multiple snakes to get back there.
**** designers... who puts SIX channels backstage for the pit anyhow???