Recent content by NeenahTD

I HIGHLY recommend Milwaukee Fuel tools with the M18 Red Lithium batteries. I run a High School theater and we bought an entire set a little over a year ago. I could write a book about what I love about these tools but to keep it short:- They are durable and easy to use. My students are...

Well thats what I get for believing everything people tell me...I never bothered to look for the Q119 because someone told me it wasn't produced anymore. Thanks for the correction.

I work in an older facility (built 1973) that still has the original dimmer rack, an ETC L86 with some 2400 and some 2400i modules. Over the course of time, some of the power cubes (ssr/scr) have failed and need to be replaced. I am looking for replacement cube's as I plan to do the repair...

We use s4 10degs on our far catwalk for front light. We recently purchased tophats/snoots to reduce the ambient light in the house when these lights are on....it makes a HUGE difference.The problem, as many of you might already know, is that S4 10degs are already tip heavy and when adding a...

Thank you everybody for the great input. We have decided to make the scrim idea work and will be testing out the best way to accomplish this. I'll try to jump back on here to let everybody know how things went and what worked well and (of course) not so well. Thanks again.

Great ideas all, thank you!....I forgot to mention that with the size of our stage (50'w x 20' h) and house (1600 seats, we won't fill all but the audience is a ways from stage). This painting will need to be quite large. We've thrown out 4'x6' as a rough estimate.Has anyone tried the scrim...

Looking to upgrade our console. We currently have an ETC Express 72/144 which is a great board but we are starting to out-grow it. We have recently added moving lights, which the express does not handle well, and other DMX devices like color scrollers and strobes. We love our ETC board and...

We are in Pre-prod for "Picasso at the Lapine Agile" by Steve Martin. In the show, a painting of "sheep in fog" must magically transform into Picasso's "Les Demoiselles D'Avignon". This change is done in full light, and the sheep painting is onstage the whole show until the transformation at...

My coworker and I are the TD's for Neenah High School's in Neenah, WI (30 min south of Green Bay). We both have a BA in Theatre (UW-Whitewater and UW-Stevens Point) and have have been employed in the industry for a number of years though at 32 & 30, our experience is somewhat limited. I found...