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Hello everyone,A local art gallery recently had a new installed PA done. The speakers are small wall mounts but I can't see the backs and I have no idea what brand they are. Here's a picture of the logo on the front. Does anyone know what brand this is?

Hello everyone,Our concert hall will soon need all of the seating reupholstered. The seating was originally by Series Seating, but they aren't showing much interest in recovering for me. So I'm looking for someone who would be able and willing to do about 350 seats. My hall is located about...

Hello everyone,Does anyone have any advice for controlling (eliminating) reflections from items on stage? My venue is primarily a concert hall, and most of our shows are one offs. Sadly, all of my lighting positions are from the sides. I have no FoH positions and no electrics or grid. I'm...

Hello everyone,My performance center needs to replace its stock of usher flashlights. I need something inexpensive and that runs from AAA or AA cells. We issue 14 to the ushers for each show. While they usually get returned some do walk away. The ones we have now are fairly cheap so they...

Altman 1000Q follow-spotHello everyone,For an upcoming show I rented an Altman 1000Q. I have not worked with this instrument in the past, so I was very surprised by how noisy it is. There are two very loud fans on the bottom of the instrument. If I were to operate it with the top door...

Hello everyone,I'm the TD of a concert hall. For events presented by us I often serve as the FoH engineer unless the act carries their own. On rental events though the outside producer often wants to bring in their own sound engineer. This is usually fine, and I act as TD and system tech to...

I'm not describing this well. So lets try this pic and see if it makes sense.

Here is an image of one of the pipes. I want to get an instrument straight out from the pipe. It would be parallel to the ground, making a 90 degree angle from the current pipe. It would let me get the instrument farthest from the stage out from the wall farther, giving me a better angle for...

I have pipes that run down each side of my hall. Its #40 1.5" steel pipe, in 8' lengths. Each pipe currently supports 4 instruments (some Pars some Lekos). In an effort to get a better angle I need to get an instrument out about 3' from my current pipes. Can I attach a 4' section of pipe...

There was a recent thread that asked what type of fixtures were in your venue. Primary light in your theatre This thread got me thinking about all the various conventional theatrical fixtures that are used in today's performance spaces. I've always been in the situation of using the lights in...

We have both Tie and Dry lines in my space. Both are just copper runs, no splits, no power, nothing but copper runs. The only difference between them is that the dry lines started out life as feeds to the mic splitters. When we did a system redesign those lines were no longer home run to the...

As with most things concerned with audio... it all depends...3 mics for the drum kit might work. If its jazz/folk music then you can make it work. If you are doing blues/rock then you are going to really miss those tom mics and the other over head, especially outdoors. If you really can...

Hi Ken,The idea of a dichroic filter seems like a great solution. However, when I priced them out it was more like $60 per filter for Apollo Dichroic for my Lekos and about $90 for my par cans with an additional $15 for the holder. Am I missing something?

In an effort to solve this issue I added 3" color extenders and I installed Rosco heat shield as well. My setup was heat shield on the slot closest to the lamp, then the extender then congo blue at the end of the extender. This was giving me a gel life of about 5-10 minutes.Barbizon verified...

Hello everyone,I have a strange situation with my 26 degree Source Four lekos. I have 6 of them and they all seem to have the same issue. They are burning through color gel extremely fast. When dropping a dark gel (like Rosco Congo Blue) they are burning through in 5-10 seconds. This is...