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    Communication...

    If you're thinking high-budget there are wireless telex/clearcoms that you can get. Lower than that but a bit more ghetto is that you can get wired telex/clearcom and just have a central hub, usually with 3 or 4 output/input XLR ports and you can run 50'+XLR chord through your audience our...
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    Bad Luck

    It wasn't that bad! The first time I got an empty fortune cookie I laughed. A good friend of mine looked at it and said that I should take a picture of it and title it "unfortunate" I thought that was clever. Little did I know that I would kill a frog that night. Yeah its a bad sign when...
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    Chesbouroughs?

    Jeez, now I know why I keep coming here... you guys are amazing! You never let me down!So first some background (which should respond to a lot of these) Our cyc is right up against our backwall. There isn't anymore further upstage we could put it. We have no fly system so we use a track and we...
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    Chesbouroughs?

    Have you guys heard of them. I don't know if I've spelled it correctly. Chesborough maybe? Anyway, they're these circular clamps that fit around a pipe in order to extend a pipe. We have a pipe that we use to hang cyc lights on, but it's too close to our cyc, not giving us an even wash...
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    Highschool Lighting

    It might be a good idea to discuss washes and how to blend lights together. Also maybe covering the basics of the instrument (how to clean it, care for it, replace the bulb and how to handle) and this may be a bit complex but balance of warms and cools and balance of back and sidelighting?
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    Grouping cues on a strand board

    We have a strand board. what model number I can't tell you cause I don't know, I'm assuming they're all relatively the same. My question is this: How, if possible, do you group cues so that if you hit Go and it goes to the next cue, it is automatically timed to wait a preprogrammed number of...
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    Calling cues

    For the upcoming show (its tech week this week) the cues are really confusing. As of now, after every scene there is a blackout and then the scene changes happen behind the main curtain and infront is a small little transition scene so there are stage lights and then there are lights backstage...
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    Casters will be the death of me!

    Gaff tape their mouths. Say its for a "school project."
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    Casters will be the death of me!

    Wow. All these suggestions are amazing! We found a solution this morning while looking in our tool shed: velcro. We took the fuzzy end of the velcro (it had the glue side on the back of it) and we glued it to the bottom outsides of the wheels. That gave us a lot of insulation and silence! We...
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    Casters will be the death of me!

    lol But then we wasted money and we don't like to do that. WE don't like to waste it and we don't like to spend it either... I'll talk to my director about it.
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    Casters will be the death of me!

    We're doing a fairly complicated set where the flats are reused in a different scene in a different location so they need to move around all over the place. There's about 11 of them. When I designed them the idea was that they move like a car and you have to "steer" them and you cant just turn...
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    Casters will be the death of me!

    Yeah... we're a [reallyreally] low budget high-school and we'd be lucky if we had half of $300. We're using the ones from Homedepot with ballbearings. I don't think I'm worried so much about the noise as I am about the maneuverability. Should we change the wheels around or would it be easier if...
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    Casters will be the death of me!

    So we have these soft flats that are 10' high and we attached a piece of 3/4"ply wood 2' long behind them on their width (that varies) and on the bottom we put 2 rotating casters (up against the flat) and 2 nonrotating casters (in the back of the 2' platform base thing). My cast and crew is...
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