I am in my first year as the theatre and performance manager for a rural school district. The previous theatre manager was a big sound guy, so I have a lot of sound equipment that is rarely used but is of very high quality. However, the theatre in the High School is still using an ETC Express 72/144 that was purchased in 1999. The light board in the Middle School is an ETC Acclaim with no save ability and many of the faders and buttons broken or missing.
I am hoping to be able to budget for a light board replacement at the high school so I can move the ETC Express to the middle school and retiring the Acclaim on my annual budget of 12k for all production and audiovisual needs for the school district. I am open to writing a grant if needed. At present, both theatres primarily use tungsten lamps. There a small amount of LED fixtures at the high school and there is no big plan to upgrade to movers or to more LEDs in the near future as our referendum has failed the last few years.
I am seeking opinions on whether it would be okay to purchase an ETC Element Classic or ETC Ion Classic as opposed to an Element 2 or Ion Xe. I'm personally familiar with programming and patching on all ETC consoles up to the Gio @5, but just wanted confirmation on if this a poor choice. I really like the encoder wheels on the Ion boards, but know that that increases costs as compared to the Element Boards.
I am hoping to be able to budget for a light board replacement at the high school so I can move the ETC Express to the middle school and retiring the Acclaim on my annual budget of 12k for all production and audiovisual needs for the school district. I am open to writing a grant if needed. At present, both theatres primarily use tungsten lamps. There a small amount of LED fixtures at the high school and there is no big plan to upgrade to movers or to more LEDs in the near future as our referendum has failed the last few years.
I am seeking opinions on whether it would be okay to purchase an ETC Element Classic or ETC Ion Classic as opposed to an Element 2 or Ion Xe. I'm personally familiar with programming and patching on all ETC consoles up to the Gio @5, but just wanted confirmation on if this a poor choice. I really like the encoder wheels on the Ion boards, but know that that increases costs as compared to the Element Boards.