Recent content by dwardMICS

I have a stageright portable stage, and the next production needs to be able to create a tap surface for it. My initial though is getting a few sheets of masonite, painting them, and then attaching them to the stage. It will be up for a week, and if it works, this would be a nice investment to...

My school is producing Mary Poppins Jr in December. As we talk design and preproduction, the director has decided she wants to copy this video as much as possible::58 seconds it goes wider to see the full effect.In the past, I've built out of luaun with 1x3 to stiffen it. I've not been...

Thank you for the input. So assuming the my speakers use the microphone properly (which is sadly a stretch with high school students), the feedback should be somewhat avoidable? Sadly, it's a VERY basic system without an EQ or an extra audio out. I'll climb around today to see if I can even...

My school graduates it's students in our football stadium. Last year, I brought out a separate PA system because we had some issues with the stadium system. Now that it's fixed, I do have a question for all of you who are WAY smarter than me regarding this stuff.First here's a picture of the...

The element gets brought back because our primary performance venue is a gym, and the church that rents the space on Sundays occupies all of the other storage. I looked into the puck originally, but I was set on getting the students to interact with a light board so when they go to college or...

As it turns out, this was the issue. Some how, the 2nd universe was set to start at 2 instead of 513....After that, it worked like a dream!After fixing the universe, we set it so each light could easily be individually patched. Man, having the universe right made it all so much easier...

Introduction: I am a teacher. My main lighting system is in another space, but the light board travels to my classroom. It is connected via a wireless showbaby. Zero problems as it was set up by professionals.I got a new set of toys: 9 Chauvet DJ Feedom Par Hex-4 lights and a D-Fi Hub. I...

So I have a couple of different programs to compare to ProPresenter as far as running Audio and Video cues. I'm liking Show Cue Systems Demo and pricing structure.BUT, ProPresenter has a way to make those animated tiles. That's pretty cool, and a feature my school wants for the future. My...

I have a new set of 12 of the Ew100 G3s body packs, to go with four of the wireless handhelds. I'm having an issue of frequency hopping. Where one is set for channel 3, but will pick up on both 3 and 4.Our Body Pack Mics are set up on: 1 - 488.100 2 - 477.050 3 - 478.200 4 - 488.600 5 -...

So as a teacher, I try to continue to update my knowledge base so I'm teaching the kids relevant information.I have quickly realized that I am kind of functionally illiterate in terms of Sound Design and Engineering. Like I can set up a board, patch mics, set speakers, monitors, record some...

I'm a big proponent of doing exactly what you need. So when we did Little Shop this past year, I kind of threw out the expectations. I also had to build everything from scratch as this school has no inventory, zero skilled carpenters, no parents who could come in and help out....So I did it as...

Honestly, the first place I would go would be to the folks at Barbizon Atlanta. I know it's three hours a way, but I'd call them first. They might be able to get someone out to you, but they might also know someone to talk to in the area.Second, local colleges and universities. See who they...

I'm never that concerned with reviews. As an educator, most of my reviews are very informal, family and faculty reviews. Those are always positive (go figure). When I get critical reviews, used to be through the National Youth Theatre, I tried to be objective. Educational theatre reviews are...

I have done several events this year with dimmer packs. Nothing fancy, just some basic Source Fours, and a few PAR64s to blind people.I have used crappy elation dimmers, some step up Chauvet dimmers, and even some ATX Leprecon dimmers. I found it easier to circuit each dimmer set to an...

Honestly, I think I probably need to teach the whole course from a stage hand perspective. Cord management and handling ropes and cables is going to be high on the list next year since we have to move in and out of a space completely in the course of three days.