My institution recently opened a beautiful, state of the art facility for all of the Arts programs. Included was a small Black Box theatre. The venue is amazing, with only one caveat. The architect neglected to spec a sliding glass window in the booth that we had requested. Instead, we have the most soundproof fixed window I've ever come across. You could be getting murdered in the tiny booth and screaming and banging on the window and the patrons would never know. Replacing the window is not an option. I am looking for the best idea for a talk back system between the booth and the stage. We have a Dante system networking all of the audio with many ports everywhere in the space. We also have several Cat6 tie lines between the booth and the stage available for any purpose. We have a very nice digital, multi channel Clear Com system.
Here is what we need: The ability for any person or any audio on stage to be picked up by microphones at all times and heard on monitors in the booth as well as the ability to use a momentary button operated God mike in the booth to communicate to the stage.
Here are my questions: Should we utilize the existing audio mixer to facilitate this or would it make more sense for this to be a standalone system that operates totally independently? Seems to me this would be a good thing, so that it is never turned off, rerouted or otherwise mixed up in the live audio of the room. Would our Clear Com system help us here? Can mics be run into Clear Com ports in the grid and monitors out of the base station in the booth making one channel dedicated to this purpose? What do you all think is a good solution?
Here is what we need: The ability for any person or any audio on stage to be picked up by microphones at all times and heard on monitors in the booth as well as the ability to use a momentary button operated God mike in the booth to communicate to the stage.
Here are my questions: Should we utilize the existing audio mixer to facilitate this or would it make more sense for this to be a standalone system that operates totally independently? Seems to me this would be a good thing, so that it is never turned off, rerouted or otherwise mixed up in the live audio of the room. Would our Clear Com system help us here? Can mics be run into Clear Com ports in the grid and monitors out of the base station in the booth making one channel dedicated to this purpose? What do you all think is a good solution?