Post your FOH pictures

here are some pics my brother took. none of booth yet but i'll try for some later.


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That's a really nice space you have. By the way, I like the couch infront of the pinrail (at least, I think it's a couch). Look forward to seeing pics of the booths.

So I got my Drive Rack today, and man am I happy. Almost as good as christmas.



 
I have a few from our youth room's FOH that I took last Wednesday. Heres the FOH Rack.
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And the FOH rack and the stage as well. In this picture one can see the lead singer with a guitar about in the middle just a bit to the right, as well as the audio rack.

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Sorry, I had to. If anyone is curious I did that on my camera with a shutter that was open for about a half-second, no Photoshop work or anything. Thats how the picture was captured through the lense, just scaled down in size. Last Wednesday was play with long shutter times week for me. I also took a picture in the lobby and someone was there during the flash but walked out and one can see through their body kind of, its pretty cool. If I remember I'll take a real picture of the audio area this week.
 
Uhh, I don't want to sound rude, but, your pictures are way to blurry to make out anything in them.
 
Ahh, artist are so misunderstood these days *wink*
 
I understand its blurry, that was how the picture was taken on purpose. Personally I think its cool. The goal of those pictures was to make the rack look cool, not to make it possible to show the gear. A good eye could probably tell there is a power conditioner in there (the red, yellow, and green lights that go together) and some gates (the red lights that go together). Now that I'm on my computer again I looked back through my photo archive and found that I have a few pictures that have some clarity. The console is a Sound Craft Series TWO (32ch 8sub 2 matrix, automated mutes) and there are 4 gate channels, 6 compression channels (only 2 hooked up, need power run to the other one) a 2 channel (30 or 31) band EQ, an effects prosessor in dual-mono for delay and verb, 3 wireless channels (2 Shure UHF and 1Audio Technica 5000 Series) as well as an in ear monitor transmitter. I think thats all of it. Ohh, below the table the board is on is the board PSU, another power distributor, a CD recorder and a 5 disc changer. As for pictures with clarity, these are better, not perfectly clear though.

(There are 2 AT 5000s in this one and no EQ, it was in November)

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The series 2 os a really nice console. That BSS EQ sounds really good too. Although I'm less prone to graphic EQs at FOH.

I have to give you credit for running the faders at nominal level....good techinque and rarely seen at a HS! I know I didn't do it back then!
 
Thanks for the compliment Inaki2. That isn't a tip I picked up on my own. The church I got to has a full time Full Sail Recording graduate that goes to it. I have learned a lot form him, but of course I've picked up some on my own. Not everything can be taught. And the EQ is actually made by Ashley not BSS. I did a little reasearch and I think it is http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/GQX3102/ that guy. Its used for the wedges on stage, there is a DriveRack under the console for FOH. And as far as the console, its pretty good. I would appreciate some bandwidth controls on the EQ, as well as sweeping lows and highs, but it is quite possible to get pretty good sound out of it assuming the input is managable. Anyway I appreciate the compliment.
 
I am going to post this as an announcement for the general posting of images, but thought that this also be a good place to post it.

Some of you may notice that I have edited your posts to reduce the size of the images that have been posted and make them link to the full size image.

I have done this because if the image is larger than the width of the screen – people have to scroll horizontally to read the text (anywhere on that page).

It is fairly simple to do this when you post the images, using basic HTML. Here is how:

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All you have to do is cut and paste this and then add the location of your image.

For those of you that want to know the gritty details:

<a href> </ >tag tells the browser that the content of that tag is a hyper link - the target variable tells the browser to open the link in a new window. Note that this tag has a closing element </a> that needs to be entered. This is because a hyper link needs to be defined. Therefore, only what is entered between <a href> and </ > will act as the hyper link

<img src /> tells the browser to display an image and sets the width to “400”. Therefore, any image that you display will set to 400 pixels wide.

<br /> tells the browser to enter a break (single carriage return) so that the text is displayed under the image and not beside it. You can enter any text there if you like. I wrote this as a simple generic example.

Both the image source and break tag do not have a second closing element, as they a self defined command. However, XHTML adds the closing “/” before the last French bracket (>)

Hope this helps.
 
Soundman...Full Sail huh? LOL, I went there. Its fun.

Yes you are right it is an Ashley...my mind did a boo boo, we had those in the last company I worked for doing sound.
 
Hey dudes...you all got some really cool venues. I'm just starting off as a newbie to the whole sound gig, so I could sure use about as much help and hints on stuff as I can get on just about everything.

Catch ya later dudes.
 
bwayhawk2002 I would say on of the best things you can do is use what you have the very best you can. Make the people with the power of the purse know that you will make good decision's with their money. If you can make things sound better than they ever have, then you can say I could make it sound tremendously better with say a new console, or some gates, or speakers it suddenly has become tremendously easier to win them over. As far as giving you tips, the best way to learn is to enguage and ask questions. There are different techniques one should used based on the circumstance. Do you do sound for a school, church, community theatre, somewhere else? That can change things quite a bit. If you hang around here I'm very sure you'll learn something you will put to use at some point.
 
Somehow I got pulled in to do sound for my old grade school's musical, The Music Man. At least I have some good gear

FOH:
Allen & Heath GL2200 40 channel board
Shure SLX wireless lavs
My DriveRack PA
My Behringer EQ

Mains are my JBL Sr4722's

Amp is a QSC Powerlight







 
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Hey all. As you may have (or most likely not) noticed, I have not been around very much at all the past 8 months or so. I have been SUPER busy at college (WPI) with classes and of course tech stuff. WPI has an AMAZING technical production club (Lens and Lights aka: LnL) We do basicly all of the campus's big events. Working there has been a HUGE step up from my high school and been tons of fun. I could go on and on about the club and everything we've done this year, but that'll have to be the subject of another post, but for now pictures of our FOH!

You can see the pictures here: www.RoboPeter.com/lnl.html Enjoy!
 
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I'm new here... thought I'd take a sec to post pics of our FOH setup and booth...

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Our light board. It's some form of an ETC Express. I think it's a 24/48. Not too sure, I'm a sound tech.

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Our affectionately named "Uni." It controls the lights when the board's off. Sort of slow response from when you touch the screen to when it works, though.

A Unicom system. A pre-programmed touchscreen that could activate user-programmable lighting scenes. It also could disable the hardwired house light switchs that are installed in the walls near the exits of the auditorium -dvsDave
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Our computer. Brand new as of a few months ago, it's an iMac G5. 2 GHz, with 512 MB RAM and a 160 GB hard drive. We upgraded from a Blue & White G3 (that had a G4 in it). This is the first computer that Drama has purchased. The ones before it have been brought in by techies for their use.

We had to bring in everything! (I also installed a switch to turn off the school intercom in the booth... a much needed feature) -dvsDave


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Sound board! It's a um, Spirit Live something or other. This is bad... I don't know model names, yet I'm experienced with tech. Ergh. 24 XLR channels, two stereo inputs (1/4"), 4 Group outs, and 6 Aux outs.

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The rack of sound gear. Let's see... power distros, Telex wireless crap (and I mean crap), Personal PA system (also crap). Denon CD player and tape deck (not too bad), compressors/limiters, etc. It all works, can't complain.


So there's our setup... enjoy!
For those of you who are interested, this is the high school I graudated from. The whole rig (except for the Mac) was spec'ed and installed by barbizon way back in 2000. Since those photo's have been taken however, mbenonis (also a grad of that school) had gotten the school to purchase new Shure wireless rigs.
 
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A Unicom system. A pre-programmed touchscreen that could activate user-programmable lighting scenes. It also could disable the hardwired house light switchs that are installed in the walls near the exits of the auditorium -dvsDave
It's an ETC Unison system, not a Unicom - I just wanted to clarify this point.
 
I got a little bored around the board not too long ago and I tried to take some more artistic interesting pictures. Most of these empoly the use of a long shutter, a moving camera and mute lights.

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I was trying to make an X pattern with the mute lights on that one.
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To be honest I don't remember what I was going for on that one.
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I went crazy for this one. It only has a few lights on and the camera moved really fast. I love the effect.
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I really like this one. The yellow lights come off of the mute groups.
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This one is alright. I just moved across the mute line. I held it over the first few for a bit so it would pick up the K and Snr and what not.


Just thought I would share those. They're from FOH and they're pictures so I guess they fit. I tried to do 6 pictures, but it seems Dave has limited us to 5 pictures per post. Anyway I would love to see if anyone else had tried to take long exposure audio gear pictures.
 
Hey Dave - YOU'RE the one who installed the switch?! I kind of figured it was you... but why does the ceiling say "Clif Richey, Class of '03" on it right next to the PA?
 

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