Our stage was renovated in 2010, and the all new lighting system is numbered from SR to SL... Perhaps not as much a standard anymore?Someone please tell the designer her instrument numbers are backwards. While there's often debate about whether area One is DSL or DSR (depending almost solely on the age of the designer [or his/her mentor]), unit numbers always start with #1 SL. Yes, it's antiquated, and comes from a time when control was located backstage, but that's just how it is.
And terminating the cables with Socapex, or equivalent, 6 circuit mults and Pyle-National, or equivalent, 12 circuit mults. Possibly having pre-labelled circuit boxes oriented with clamps on the bottom spaced above the pipes enough that fixtures hung below the pipes could clamp below the boxes having your dark grey numerals oriented to be easily read from that orientation. Possibly label the boxes on both U/S and D/S surfaces. Next thing consultants are going to "invent" U shaped cable supports with clamps on the bottoms which could be clamped anywhere along fly pipes and cables simply draped into the U's and have a tie-line or Velcro wrap added before the pipe is flown to trim. Anything that can be done to speed and simplify cable management and handling is time well spent, even more so if it's reducing unionized labor costs.
Someone please tell the designer her instrument numbers are backwards. While there's often debate about whether area One is DSL or DSR (depending almost solely on the age of the designer [or his/her mentor]), unit numbers always start with #1 SL. Yes, it's antiquated, and comes from a time when control was located backstage, but that's just how it is.
Back when I was Head Of Sound in the Stratford Shakespearean Festival's main stage and Bill's parents were driving him up to Ontario to watch theater, we used to have a branch of "Theatre Books", a Toronto based store operated by Leonard McHardy and a partner, in our main lobby. Leonard was a Stratford staff member at the time. I've digressed. I used to regularly peruse the book selection in the the lobby and was amazed to find an entire, hard cover, book devoted to numbering schemes for stage lighting systems in every conceivable manner of venue layout you could imagine. Since I'm no longer permitted to live in my own home, I've began giving away the bulk of my books and I suspect that rarity's among the casualties. I can vaguely recall the physical shape and dimensions of the publication but I've no memory of the author who was likely some nutty professor. I am thrilled to see another of my Stratford cohorts on staff at Yale and looking lovely as ever. Anne Trites must have one of Dorian Gray's (Sp?) photos hidden in her basement. Someday I'll bore folks with why Anne was always referred to as Aunty Em.
