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@Les: The lighting I was talking about was something we pull off at our school a couple times a year. (God knows how.) Thanks for all the information, I'll be looking some stuff up before meeting with the hotel staff. And yes! Extension cord is love! I was the kid responsible for scouring the...

I think I'm more than capable of figuring this out before next year, to be honest. I have a guy from a company who will help me out though."Fancy lights" is pretty vague, I just wanted general advice at how to set up smart lights. DMX? And a controller of some sorts, I'm assuming?Venue...

Some friends are planning to make their own Anime Convention next year. I'm going to be doing all their tech, but I'm kind of new to setting up outside of a theatre setting.I'm pretty set on audio, but I really need help with lighting. I have no idea how to set up lights on their own. The...

The phrase we used for the school show we just pulled off in 3 months. (We usually spend more time planning musicals.) is "We'll figure it out in the end..." We also constantly get fired and hired. I guess our "TD" at my highschool is constantly suprising us with phrases. A dress rehearsal for...

Thou shalt not smoke in alcoves of the theatre. (Do not smoke in my theatre! Highschoolers!)Thou shalt not tap the mics!Thou shalt not walk into lowered pipes. (Our technical director has had 3 concussions.)

Ah, I was mistaken. It wasn't the reinforcements, it wasn't the 200 pound cross, it was the brakes on our system. They were lowering it when they stopped working and it dropped. Thankfully the bar didn't go with it! Safe to say the incident could have been worse. Anyway, just wanted to say...

Wow, reading through that manual. That's our system, was going to upload photos today.I'm starting to see what we did wrong, I didn't know the make of our system so I couldn't look up a manual. Thanks so much! I'm starting to see what we're doing wrong, and will try again after school...

Oh, that kind of makes sense. More sense than I was making. What I mean about the booth is that at the front of our box there's two outputs for headsets. Two push-to-talk buttons. The two headsets that connect to these can talk to each other. (Usually our SM, lighting, and audio people all...

Hmm. Yeah, I feel kind of vague. I'm usually good with diagrams, I'll grab some pictures of our system tomorrow. (The clearest picture of the com isn't very clear, unfortunantly.) A and B can talk to each other. Though, footer you're kind of confusing me. Our headsets plug into the front...

Huh, the first thing I thought of for just general use was these guys: Products: Zero Toys Online Store They have "mini fog machines" of sorts. It's basically just glycerin heated up. I have a mini fog ring one, it's cheap, and shouldn't be too difficult to mod. It does take a bit of time to...

You know... Funny enough something like this happened at my high school. We were doing Jesus Christ Superstar (Which DOES have Jesus in it, on a cross.) I wasn't backstage at the time, but something happened with the rigging of our giant wooden cross. It was flying in, and a few feet or so...

Hmm. We have many variations of "if you piss us off, you'll be taking your bow in the dark." As well as "What's not working today?"But our new favourite one after a weird conversation is: "If you don't have thumbs, you can't join lighting crew."And most importantly, something yelled every...

Hey, recently my high school clear-com system stopped working. Here's a quick rundown of our system: We have 16 channels on each side of our stage. It's a snake running up to our booth. (We only use 1-8 on stage right and left for backstage stuff.) On our snake backstage the clear-com is...

Ah, how I found this place. My school's clear-com is bust. Searching for answers. (Works in the booth, doesn't work backstage, something is messed up.) Thread about my broken com is over here, come help!Otherwise I'm in Grade 11, and I'm on our school's lighting crew. Currently I'm the sound...