A few thoughts:
- Putting everything together in one location with room for people to move may require quite a bit of floor space. Have you tried to layput or mockup what space or dimensions would be desired?
- With movable chairs you can probably somewhat work the aisles, etc. around what you develop for the tech position, however you probably cannot create trip hazards or impede egress with any cables, snakes, etc. They can likely cannot cross where people would normally walk, which unless the main traffic paths are to the center of the room from and/or in front of the tech position could be a challenge since you are at or near the main entrance.
- MASS, Ramlatch, LK, Cannon, etc. multipin connectors may be fine for audio and low voltage control but may not work for all of the signal types involved. Something like the Wireworks AV2000 products (AV2000 - The Wireworks Store) may work for audio and low voltage control as well as analog video and SD/HD-SDI but probably not for network/CAT/8P8C, DVI, HDMI, DisplayPort, USB, etc. And you also have to address power.
- Roll top desks can be great but think about the height required to clear monitors, etc. with the roll top closed and how that may affect sightlines during use. You may have to simply lay down monitors, etc. for storage or you can find some very creative solutions with recessed monitors, portions of desks that can be lowered for storage, etc. but you are probably going to pay a premium for such features, which leads to...
- Custom portable racks or cabinets that are typically aesthetically acceptable in House of Worship applications along with any related cabling and connectors could easily cost more than a digital console with iPad/tablet wireless remote mixing.
Hi, you've brought up some very valid and interesting points there.
Im now considering just having a new 'worktop' installed in place of the various rubbish in place, maybe buy a rack for CD/DVD players, amps
etc. and putting that in the corner.
(can you rackmount a standard PC case?)
I think then it would be best to
purchase something like the Behringer X32
desk and an iPad and then have the sound operators sit anywhere in the '
house' and mix from there...but of course the operators could choose to operate from the
desk also if they wanted to.
New chairs for operators are definitely needed!
Recording wise, maybe (if the budget will stretch!) invest in a video
mixer, something like this? (
Roland V-4 Video Mixer) and have that set up on the
desk also.
In your opinion, who should sort the video recording? Sound or Projection operator?
