Uncle Dirtnap
Active Member
Short version:
Do you run the amped signal through the snake?
Long version:
This is all pretty basic, so forgive me. I have run rigs of all shapes and complexities, but I'm a little confused where I should take this.
I'm volunteering at a community theatre that has been in a hundred year old church since the 70s. There are multiple generations of 3rd hand equipment, and no strong technical plans or consistent oversite. No one there really knows what they have or how it was supposed to, or should, work. For the last few years of musicals they have just been renting equipment for simplicity.
They have a Behringer x32 board (how?why?), with the mains going to 2 powered speakers on the stage behind the proscenium. These seem to work fine. There is a back balcony with 2 speakers (aimed 45 degrees to the stage with 2 other powered speakers. There is a rack of amps, some effects, and a big EQ with nothing hooked up that I assume is last generation. There are probably 6 or 8 good size non powered speakers about the place, some on the makeshift grid about stage, some in the organ loft behind the curtain overlooking the rear of the stage, and a more in storage. There is a snake with 8 inputs and 8 outputs stage left, along with a rack newish wireless receivers and microphones in a road case, also not hooked up. These look, if not recent, then at least modern.
I'm getting ready to get ready for their next musical, and I need to figure out what, if anything, we need to rent. In trying to figure things out, I had a few questions - are the outputs on the snake just out of the board, or should they be amped? None of the triangular speakers I associate with monitors are powered, so I'm confused what the outs on stage could effectively be used for.
I'm much better at lighting, I swear
-rj
Do you run the amped signal through the snake?
Long version:
This is all pretty basic, so forgive me. I have run rigs of all shapes and complexities, but I'm a little confused where I should take this.
I'm volunteering at a community theatre that has been in a hundred year old church since the 70s. There are multiple generations of 3rd hand equipment, and no strong technical plans or consistent oversite. No one there really knows what they have or how it was supposed to, or should, work. For the last few years of musicals they have just been renting equipment for simplicity.
They have a Behringer x32 board (how?why?), with the mains going to 2 powered speakers on the stage behind the proscenium. These seem to work fine. There is a back balcony with 2 speakers (aimed 45 degrees to the stage with 2 other powered speakers. There is a rack of amps, some effects, and a big EQ with nothing hooked up that I assume is last generation. There are probably 6 or 8 good size non powered speakers about the place, some on the makeshift grid about stage, some in the organ loft behind the curtain overlooking the rear of the stage, and a more in storage. There is a snake with 8 inputs and 8 outputs stage left, along with a rack newish wireless receivers and microphones in a road case, also not hooked up. These look, if not recent, then at least modern.
I'm getting ready to get ready for their next musical, and I need to figure out what, if anything, we need to rent. In trying to figure things out, I had a few questions - are the outputs on the snake just out of the board, or should they be amped? None of the triangular speakers I associate with monitors are powered, so I'm confused what the outs on stage could effectively be used for.
I'm much better at lighting, I swear
-rj