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SMNetwork Archives / Re: I could have kissed them!

« on: Sep 04, 2008, 06:03 pm »

......the two girls working props stayed after the show (high school) and made sure all of the props were back where they were supposed to be, then said "what else can we do?" and proceeded to help me set everything up for the next nights show.

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Tools of the Trade / Re: Things that went wrong with your technical equipment?

« on: Jul 07, 2008, 10:30 am »

agreed. unfortunatly, we don't have as much control over who gets to use the board and equipment. for instance when the band (no offense) decides they want to have a concert in the theatre they get one of their own to do it. unfortunatly their expertise on our equipment is from hooking up a stereo at their house. the worst people are student government. they are the ones who do the talent show. i was going to do their tech for them. i went to the first rehearsal (which started about an hour late. you can bet i was wishing i was the SM) and found a guy in the booth just pushing random buttons. i said "what are you doing?" and he replied something to the effect of "working the lights, don't worry i know what i'm doing." needless to say he ddin't saty in the booth for that performance.

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Tools of the Trade / Re: Things that went wrong with your technical equipment?

« on: Jul 07, 2008, 12:30 am »

our light board was 9 years old when we got it. in 2001 (that's right Lehigh 1991) it works even though it needs a major overhaul (people who don't know what they are doing mess with it. i swear if i walk into that booth one more time and see some ignorant fool playing with that board, telling me he/she knows what they are doing. there will be violence)

our sound system is the same way. it buzzes. but its in better shape than alot of the other equipment. i hate it that our theatre (in my HS) wasn't designed by a theatre person. if it were we would be able to control the house lights from the booth. on a slightly off topic question: have any of you had problems with people (who didn't know how to work them) messing with your equipment? especially in a highly public or HS theatre?

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Tools of the Trade / Re: Things that went wrong with your technical equipment?

« on: Jul 06, 2008, 05:56 pm »

the same thing happened to us! it was caused by a lightining strike though. it was good that it never happened during a show but if we were in the theatre for a class or what not they would go almost black. eventually we had the district electricians come in and fix it (oh how i wish i had the training to fix it myself)

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Tools of the Trade / Re: Things that went wrong with your technical equipment?

« on: Jul 04, 2008, 01:47 pm »

the funny thing is, we have no backups. all we have is the light board and one backstage. so if the board fails we don't have to go to full lights on everything (almost happened once and yours truly had to fix it).
our sound has no backup unless we decide to run music on a cd player.

i really envy those people in high school who have headsets. we use some really tempramental walkies set to about as low as they can go. oh well, you work with what you're given. we've put some great shows together like that though so i can only complain so much. 

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Tools of the Trade / Re: Overhead Mics

« on: Mar 13, 2008, 10:41 pm »

that's why I'm a little hesitant to put it up there. I'm pretty sure that we'll be able to put it up there. thanks everyone.

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Tools of the Trade / Overhead Mics

« on: Mar 13, 2008, 05:29 pm »

does anyone know what the temerature range for a cable to a Shure MX202B/C? we want to put it on a batten with lights on it (temorarily) and i was wondering if it was safe to do that without insulating the wire somehow.