The sound system in our gym SUCKS!
We have several problems with the sound system in our gym (the gym is used for thing like assemblies and our annual arts showcase). First of all, whenever the sound system is on, a few of the speakers play the radio. Nothing loud, but still enough to be noticable and annoying. When we were working on the aformentioned arts showcase, we tried to fix the problem. Our school TD thought it was a grounding problem, so we put little grounding plugs on the speakers that were playing radio. But whenever we couldn't hear it on one, it started up on another speaker. We didn't have enough time to fix it before the show, so what we ended up doing is turning off the system when no one was using the microphones so you wouldn't hear the radio during musican pieces.
Another problem that we noticed with the same system is caused by the lighting dimmers. When we were setting up for the show, we noticced that whenever the lights were at anything but full and off the sound system would get a terrible hum in it. For some reason the dimmer system was screwing up our sound system. The guy who set it up (guy who runs the radio department at the school) said he was going to fix it, but has made no effort to (probably because he was the one who screwed it up in the first place). Our TD plans to tear down the whole system over the summer and set it back up again. *sigh*
We have several problems with the sound system in our gym (the gym is used for thing like assemblies and our annual arts showcase). First of all, whenever the sound system is on, a few of the speakers play the radio. Nothing loud, but still enough to be noticable and annoying. When we were working on the aformentioned arts showcase, we tried to fix the problem. Our school TD thought it was a grounding problem, so we put little grounding plugs on the speakers that were playing radio. But whenever we couldn't hear it on one, it started up on another speaker. We didn't have enough time to fix it before the show, so what we ended up doing is turning off the system when no one was using the microphones so you wouldn't hear the radio during musican pieces.
Another problem that we noticed with the same system is caused by the lighting dimmers. When we were setting up for the show, we noticced that whenever the lights were at anything but full and off the sound system would get a terrible hum in it. For some reason the dimmer system was screwing up our sound system. The guy who set it up (guy who runs the radio department at the school) said he was going to fix it, but has made no effort to (probably because he was the one who screwed it up in the first place). Our TD plans to tear down the whole system over the summer and set it back up again. *sigh*