Recent content by Jsamuels201

  1. J

    Vectorworks symbols for non major lighting brands

    I am making a plot of my high school's TV studio and was wondering if anyone knew where I could get vectorworks symbols for desisti, brightline, and le lighting fixtures. I have searched google and seem to be unable to find any of them.
  2. J

    I Need Some Easy Ways to Make a Concert Visually Interesting

    I may have missed this cuz i sort of skimmed, but haze is definitely the way to go for a battle of the bands, also consider building some type of set for the bands to play on. Our school does a battle of the bands every year and two years ago we decided to go crazy with tech after the year...
  3. J

    Stage Directions: How do you label your stage?

    USR USRC USC USLC USL MSR MSRC MSC MSLC MSL DSR DSRC DSC DSLC DSLI don't know if using M for midstage is convention but for some reason that's how i've always done it. I feel like if you label midstage as just SC (etc...) I feel like that would denote the entire US to DS range. I also rarely...
  4. J

    Mixers/Consoles How do you turn on the "post fade monitor" setting on a LS9 Yahmaha sound system?

    I have to agree with TimmyP1955, if you'r just sending your director a feed off ur mains I think your best bet is to softpatch the Omni Out your monitor is in to a free matrix, and then do a matrix send off your mains (Stereo Bus). You can set the level and then forget about it because the...
  5. J

    Digital or analogue?

    I mix most of the time on a Yamaha M7CL in a high school auditorium that does everything from Theatre to rock shows to talent shows. I know it's not the best sounding digital console out there (get a big ben and some good pre's if you really care that much), but unless your working in a...
  6. J

    Microphones How to Hang a Short Condenser for Choir

    Coat Hanger and a little gaff is what i use unless the mics come with something already.
  7. J

    Panel mic?

    We have the 4 channel version at my high school's television studio. The PA button is meant to act as a stage announce, you can wire it to a speaker and probably also to the input of a sound console by putting an XLR on the end of the cable, I've never tried so you'd have to look at the pinout...
  8. J

    Mixer purchase advice

    Have you looked into a venue sc48 at all? If money is no object I'd check that out. 48 in/16 out, pro tools plugins, and a relatively small footprint. My high school has a M7CL 48 and I love the interface which is pretty easy to teach to newbies. Keep in mind though that even if you want to...
  9. J

    Microphone systems for a high school

    My school runs 12 Shure SLX2 wireless recievers/transmitters. We haven't had any problem with the transmitters at all, the only issues we've had are with our mics. we have these Samson — SE10. Ther're great cuz they're easy to get on the actors, they're cheap, and they come with all the major...
  10. J

    Curtain call for crew?

    In my High School the actors always point at our tech booth and run crew and stage manager always go on stage at the end of our shows with the exception of anyone who still has to work (the person running curtain, board ops, followspot ops, etc). As far as I'm concerned its unnecessary in a...
  11. J

    Mics getting thrown

    I've found that if you make a small loop (sort of like you would with a macbook charger) at the connector and use some gaff to tape that part of the cable to the connector it helps a lot with stress on the mic cable. Also I don't know if you've already done this or not, but watch the...
  12. J

    "No sound coming from the speakers!"

    I find that if you're in charge of a room where a lot of people without good troubleshooting skills or audio knowhow work the best thing to do is put labels on everything. When they go to turn on the amp there should be a big sign saying where to turn the knobs and what light to look at to see...
  13. J

    RANT: IF I'm asked to project one more YouTube video...

    The willingness of people to accept bad quality audio and video (ie: 90% of Youtube) is something that should really change though no one that actually cares about quality ever seems to have a say in the matter.I designed a show last year that took place in the 40's and the director was dead...
  14. J

    Favorite Knife or Knife Brand

    I splurged a while ago after a big paycheck and bought a Benchmade Griptillian, drop point and half serrated. I carry it on every show along with my old school leatherman wave and a coast flash light. Worth every penny and I can't dream of doing a show without all three of those things on me.
  15. J

    Tightening microphone stand clutches/brakes?

    Atlas still makes pretty good counterweighted booms, my school bought a few of them a couple years ago and they're still in good shape. We did have to JB weld one of the counterweights after the screw that holds it on to the boom stripped out though.
Back