We have a Secoa, Its just over 10 yrs old. It is one of the best looking and really easy to put together. 7 wall panels and three ceiling panels. It can be setup in less than 30 min. with a small crew that knows what its doing.
Ours is an off white (Bone), I know of anouther theater that has one that is a wood colour/pattern, its looks really good.
The only problem that we have is the battery, we got into a bad charging habit that killed the battery.
It would be nice to have an A/C option.
Sean...
What do you guys use these shells for?
Another Secoa shell in my venue. 10 towers and 3 ceilings. I can do it by myself in about 30 min, if I need to. Mine is of light cherry color. Had trouble with panels really not matching each other at first, but they sent someone out to fix the problem.
Only bad thing about the shell (maybe all shells) is that mine has ETC pars built in-very handy feature- and the backs of the units stick out pretty far. My linesets are very close together and they bump the lighting housings and the burnbase of the pars. I wound up putting some 3' perf'd strap bent around the housing and secured to the back of the ceiling itself. This provides a nice bump guard for the lines directly behind the shell.
If you can, get the motorized lineset option. those ceilings can be very heavy!
I could also setup by myself(not that i havent), but Secoa recommends 4 people to move them to be safe, so you dont hook anything with the top.
Imrpoving the acoustical coupling of the performance space to the listening space is one function but another is supporting ensemble among the performers and allowing them to better hear one another.Its generally used to project more sound out into the house and away from any soft goods or acoustical traps that can be inadvertently created backstage.
That is also exactly the kind of issue I've run into. You draw up the ceiling panel sizes, angles and locations you want and what you get back from the shell manufacturer is what they can do with their stock products. That means you then either layout everything around their design or bite the bullet for a custom shell, there doesn't really seem to be an intermediate 'semi-custom' option.Sometimes someone will try to value engineer out the built-in light fixtures and will try to plan enough room between clouds to lower the electrics through, but what happened with us when they tried that is that the final install didn't leave enough room and we were stuck with absolutely zero down lighting. Wasn't long before that turned into a political firestorm and we finally got the green light to have Wenger come out, bore the holes and install the hardware for recessed S4 PAR's.
I wonder if we go with Secoa if we can get a free rigging inspection thrown in.
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