NHStech
Active Member
My stage crew is made up of some high schoolers, trained by someone (that would be me) who did some acting (about 5 or 6 productions) and directing (3 or 4 shows), and was trained by a SM for exactly one year. Meaning: they are being trained by someone who requires much more training. We have a 24-channel analog mixer in our auditorium. Of course, my directors during musicals and plays want to wireless everyone (whatever happened to PROJECTING?). Other than the spring musical, there is rarely a time where we use more than 4 or 5 channels, so when a kid has to deal with 20 channels all of a sudden, he tends to freak out a little, y'know? My thought is this: what about having two kids run the sound? One on, say, channels 1-12, the other on 13-24? Do you see any inherent complications with this that I am missing? I mean, as long as they are not in each others' way...To split hairs, I understand their ears would be different, so their might be slight differences in their respective outputs of voices, but this is a high school production, and I am simply looking for volume to be high enough w/o feedback, and that the kids don't sound like Alvin and the Chipmunks.