Andy Haefner
Active Member
Does anyone else have horror stories of theatre renovations? ill explain mine. My High School was renovated over the summer and almost every aspect seems as if it was done with no consultants whatsoever. They didnt lay a level subfloor so our brand new deck is uneven, the carpet lifts up, we have dead hung electrics which make it impossible to use the linesets around them, they replaced our source four lekos with LED lights 1/3 as bright. They gave us a 96 dimmer rack, but it is virtually unusable as they changed how all of our circuits are wired to accommodate their system (where we used to have 6 20-amp circuits now we have 3 spread across 2 plugs each). our houselights flash up because they opted for cheaper LEDS. our new wall sconces and chandeliers (which are ugly architectual fixtures) dont dim all the way to black, (they flash in and out because the dimming curve simply cuts power once it reaches 7 percent). To move onto sound we got crappy bose sticks in place of our QSC K12's which put out less power overall and the setup wasnt even balanced left to rght (besides having a horrible EQ to start off with) Our board has an AWFUL gain structure with the system, peaking almost with no effort. And the list goes on and on. just overall horrible job and i cant believe our superintendents even remotely okay with it. Does anyone else have similar experiences?