I don't know about you.... but when I head that the community theatre was getting a new lighting system I got all giddy!
God it is bad. They just replaced everything... they didn't re-wire. Almost all of our lekos are paired with aweful angles. So then we go to cable then to a seprete dimmer... oh... we switched to stage pin but didn't update our already out of date cables. Our cable are basicly regular outdoor extension cables with the ends cut off and replaced, but now we are forced to replace those ends because we can't afford to pay for the good, legal cable. We can barely afford to pay for the replacement ends. The scary thing is that we have been doing this for years!
This has not even touched on the subject of the fact that they bought 16 scoops which we never use. At the most we use 4 at a time... And this is still not touching on where they located the lekos.... when a fellow techie was asked what they should do with the new system... he pointed out where he thought they should put lekos... but he ment in addition to where they already had then.... we now have lekos 15ft from the front on the stage and one FOH position.... this is just genis....
It's amazing we have not burnt the place to the ground with all the stuff we are forced to use... and that place is one giant tinder box...
Yet the board of directors really doesn't seem to care....
God it is bad. They just replaced everything... they didn't re-wire. Almost all of our lekos are paired with aweful angles. So then we go to cable then to a seprete dimmer... oh... we switched to stage pin but didn't update our already out of date cables. Our cable are basicly regular outdoor extension cables with the ends cut off and replaced, but now we are forced to replace those ends because we can't afford to pay for the good, legal cable. We can barely afford to pay for the replacement ends. The scary thing is that we have been doing this for years!
This has not even touched on the subject of the fact that they bought 16 scoops which we never use. At the most we use 4 at a time... And this is still not touching on where they located the lekos.... when a fellow techie was asked what they should do with the new system... he pointed out where he thought they should put lekos... but he ment in addition to where they already had then.... we now have lekos 15ft from the front on the stage and one FOH position.... this is just genis....
It's amazing we have not burnt the place to the ground with all the stuff we are forced to use... and that place is one giant tinder box...
Yet the board of directors really doesn't seem to care....