Hey, folks we are all stumped on this one at my current show, and we're all casting out for ideas.
In the show I'm currently working the mic packs are draining batteries SUPER fast. As in, a fresh battery is put in at half hour, and it's totally dead before intermission. Erratically. This has happened on six of the seven packs in use on the show, and at least once goes out EVERY PERFORMANCE; sometimes three or four! At one point, our engineer put in a fresh battery, saw three bars on the indicator, turned away for a few minutes to do some mixing at sound check, and when she turned back, the low battery indicator was flashing.
We're stumped. The sound designer, sound engineer, SM and myself have NEVER experienced anything like this before. We've trouble shot everything we could think of, and are at the point where we're contemplating ridiculous things like whether the brand of condoms we are using is somehow blocking the signal and making them work harder. Like I said, ridiculous.
So, has anyone had anything like this happen on any of their show, or have any idea of things we can do/check, etc. that is beyond the logical things?
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