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Don’t really have room for front fill. Audio content is mostly recorded music and body mics.

We are looking to stay in the $4-8k range

I am interested in purchasing new speakers for our Black Box Theatre, I use box loosely since it is very oddly shaped. Attached is a diagram with measurements showing the space. Half of our performances are musicals with recorded music and mics, half plays with sfx and/or ambiance sounds...

Muzicman, thanks for the clarity. As you can tell I am new at this and especially new at using a digital board. For some reason I was thinking bus assignments would be fixed, but as you pointed out, I can reassign which channels are sent to an ensemble bus on a scene per scene basis. That...

This (above quote) is exactly what I am trying to do. I’m working on an Allen & Heath SQ console, the problem is the musical I am preparing for is an ensemble type piece with 9 characters that take turns singing lead and singing ensemble, so there are nine different ensemble combinations, trying...

Philip, thanks, your info helped. Lextech, I appreciate the insight into your workflow. Another question, is there any value to putting the chorus mics into a group before assigning the group to a DCA? What, if any, extra processing might someone do to a chorus group in a musical?

I am trying to educate myself more on sound. Our school just recently purchased our first digital console. Looking to mix a musical , line by line, so learning how to use groups and DCA’s. My question is can a mic input be routed to 2 different DCA’s? If I do that, what happens when both DCA’s...

I am a High School Theatre Teacher, jack of many theatre trades master of none. We are planning an upcoming production of Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses with a 10'x14' pool. For those of you lighting designers who have done this show, do you have any tricks or tips on how to light actors in...

It’s coastal California, so even though it has been an unusually wet this year, the only weather problems we usually have would be an occasional stiff ocean wind. The terrain is wide concrete pathways and asphalt with some nasty seams in-between. It’s mostly flat, with one 50ft section of about...

The good news is the new storage space, at the school I teach at, doesn't leak like the old storage. The bad news is it is on the other side of campus, 0.25 miles away. Without using a motorized vehicle, does anyone have a recommendation on how high school students could easily transport 4x8...

Ron, I have searched , but not found much specific to platform storage. While I might choose to build differently in the future, right now I am just trying to find the best way to store what I currently have. Gafftapegreenia , I like the idea of storing platforms on their short ends, especially...

We will be moving into a new space for set storage this summer and I am looking for storage ideas. How do you store your stock (mostly 4x8) platforms? Flat or on their side and if on their side do you store them laying on short or long side? Thanks,

Bill, thank you. Your reply was filled with helpful ideas. I found the implosion/explosion McCandless an interesting idea. Speaking of which, if you are trying to use Mccandleuss in a theatre where the stage goes all the way to the wall, how do you light it? For the areas on each side you can...

While we have staged shows as a thrust or in the round, it shrinks our stage space significantly. The majority of our shows are staged proscenium style with the audience at one end of the room and the 36x24 ft acting space at the other. So the Rep plot is for that arrangement, we will move...

I'm a one man high school theatre dept. We currently perform in a 100 seat black box style theater where the stage area is usually about 36 ft wide and 24 ft deep with a lighting grid 19 ft above. For the last five years the lighting instruments we have had available were 8 parnels, 2 Pars, and...