musichands
Member
Hi all,
I'm a veteran comomunity theatre actor, singer, and otherwise quite involved with local CT, and it's tech stuff has aged past the point of revival. The minidisc player can't record any more, the CD player is so old it wouldn't know an mp3 or wma if you snorted at it, there's no pc, and the light board is ... well it hiccups.
In current play I'm working with MorphVOX to disguise the murder/narrator ... and they don't even have a decent microphone or PC to create or use the software.
I am a pc/win nut, and want to help them define and implement a new pc-based system. So one person can program the whole show - light, sound, cues - and run it (or pause, back up) simply.
Will you help me by
a) spec out a basic package of light and sound boards?
b) software to control it all?
As with all CT's, there is no budget for improvements, but they do have about $80k annual budget, mostly staff and PR. So, I'm thinking in the $1500-2500 range, if that's possible, for the whole setup (incl small desktop pc, like a Shuttle).
Please help, steer me, etc.
Thanks!
musichands
I'm a veteran comomunity theatre actor, singer, and otherwise quite involved with local CT, and it's tech stuff has aged past the point of revival. The minidisc player can't record any more, the CD player is so old it wouldn't know an mp3 or wma if you snorted at it, there's no pc, and the light board is ... well it hiccups.
In current play I'm working with MorphVOX to disguise the murder/narrator ... and they don't even have a decent microphone or PC to create or use the software.
I am a pc/win nut, and want to help them define and implement a new pc-based system. So one person can program the whole show - light, sound, cues - and run it (or pause, back up) simply.
Will you help me by
a) spec out a basic package of light and sound boards?
b) software to control it all?
As with all CT's, there is no budget for improvements, but they do have about $80k annual budget, mostly staff and PR. So, I'm thinking in the $1500-2500 range, if that's possible, for the whole setup (incl small desktop pc, like a Shuttle).
Please help, steer me, etc.
Thanks!
musichands