Well, I've actually been registered for a while, but I have been lurking. I think it's about time I introduce myself.
I am involved in my high school's performing arts department. Currently, I handle sound, rigging, and anything electronic/mechanical that needs building or repair. I sort of fell into this position after being a spot op in my sophomore year.
Admittedly, I have very little experience in rigging. The only reason that I have ended up handling it is that I've been able to figure out the system better than anybody else, and as such, it has been quite neglected for a while.
I have already benefited greatly from existing posts, and the informative wiki, but I'm going to need a little more specific help this year, as I try to make the rigging safer, sort out our rats' nest of a sound system, and deal with the installation of a questionable multimedia system into the existing fly loft.
A little about my crew, we have a 4 person full-time tech crew, but we bring in more people during shows as ASMs and stagehands. This year, since two of us are graduating, I'm looking to get more underclassmen interested. Oddly, there is no teacher at the school that teaches tech theater, it's up to us to figure things out and teach the next generation.
About where I [-]live[/-] work: We have a 700-seat auditorium, with 60 dimmer circuits (58 working) and an ETC express board. Our sound board is a Mackie sr-32. We have 16 Sennheiser mics (14 of which work). Above the stage, we have 7 linesets, 2 of which move (+ the fire curtain). There is no grid, the ceiling of the fly loft is exactly twice the height of the proscenium as it is. All blocks and lines are inconveniently attached to the ceiling.
That's FOH, with our main pipe in the foreground, taken from 1st electric. Yes, the whole place is indeed a giant hexagon.
I hope to get a lot of information from this community, and contribute where I can, too.
I am involved in my high school's performing arts department. Currently, I handle sound, rigging, and anything electronic/mechanical that needs building or repair. I sort of fell into this position after being a spot op in my sophomore year.
Admittedly, I have very little experience in rigging. The only reason that I have ended up handling it is that I've been able to figure out the system better than anybody else, and as such, it has been quite neglected for a while.
I have already benefited greatly from existing posts, and the informative wiki, but I'm going to need a little more specific help this year, as I try to make the rigging safer, sort out our rats' nest of a sound system, and deal with the installation of a questionable multimedia system into the existing fly loft.
A little about my crew, we have a 4 person full-time tech crew, but we bring in more people during shows as ASMs and stagehands. This year, since two of us are graduating, I'm looking to get more underclassmen interested. Oddly, there is no teacher at the school that teaches tech theater, it's up to us to figure things out and teach the next generation.
About where I [-]live[/-] work: We have a 700-seat auditorium, with 60 dimmer circuits (58 working) and an ETC express board. Our sound board is a Mackie sr-32. We have 16 Sennheiser mics (14 of which work). Above the stage, we have 7 linesets, 2 of which move (+ the fire curtain). There is no grid, the ceiling of the fly loft is exactly twice the height of the proscenium as it is. All blocks and lines are inconveniently attached to the ceiling.
That's FOH, with our main pipe in the foreground, taken from 1st electric. Yes, the whole place is indeed a giant hexagon.
I hope to get a lot of information from this community, and contribute where I can, too.
