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College and Graduate Studies / Early HS Graduation
« on: Sep 22, 2011, 07:26 pm »
I am currently in my junior year of high school, but I have enough credits and the GPA to graduate with honors at the top of my class a year early.   Up until last year, I've been very interested in science and wanted to pursue that as a career,  since I saw stage management as a hobby.  However, in a discussion with my wonderful TD and his wife, I realized that I would rather make a career out of my hobby, and though it'll doubtlessly be stressful at times, I'd enjoy my work much more.

My question is this: Has anyone here graduated from high school early to go straight into a college stage management (or theatre in general) program? If so, what college did you go to? Did you feel like it gave you an advantage or disadvantage of any kind?

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Tools of the Trade / Re: Headset/ClearCom trouble
« on: Aug 04, 2011, 02:29 am »
Unfortunately, I'm working with a college/community theatre, and in our space we don't have an audio team.  All tech problems fall to myself, the tech director (who is great, but only on his second show with us), and the director, who is also great but doesn't have a strong grasp on sound/audio stuff. 

The cables seem to be the only explanation left; since that's the one thing that we can't entirely check (they're in the ceiling, it would be a bear to get up to change all of them.) I'm in the process of begging for a new system. 

Once again, thanks for all the input.

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Tools of the Trade / Re: Headset/ClearCom trouble
« on: Aug 02, 2011, 10:56 pm »
There is a lot of metal.  Unfortunately, I'm right by the dimmer rack.  That could be a problem.

Thanks for your input, everyone!

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Tools of the Trade / Re: Headset/ClearCom trouble
« on: Aug 01, 2011, 11:29 pm »
We've checked the connectors, they're fine. We've tried trading out boxes. (The boxes do not run on batteries.)

It's all just really frustrating.  It seems like we've ran through almost every troubleshooting topic we can, and yet we're still getting this horrible feedback.

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Tools of the Trade / Re: Headset/ClearCom trouble
« on: Jul 27, 2011, 12:30 pm »
We've done a cell check in rehearsals- I've had people go as far as putting their off cell phones in a box in the directors office, and there really wasn't much change. The headsets aren't light weight, but we have tried turning down the volume, and it didn't really help.

Other interference is possible, though it really doesn't sound like the typical noise that you get from cell interference.  Is there anything we can do to minimize the noise?

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Tools of the Trade / Re: Headset/ClearCom trouble
« on: Jul 26, 2011, 10:29 pm »
It varies- sometimes it's in one headset, other times it's in all.  When it is in just the one headset, it happens randomly, even when the talk button isn't being held.

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Hey! I'm looking for e-scripts for the following:

Biloxi Blues by Neil Simon
The Laramie Project by Moisés Kaufman and Members of Tectonic Theater Project
Annie, book by Thomas Meehan

E-Mail: kast1e@yahoo.com

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Tools of the Trade / Headset/ClearCom trouble
« on: Jul 24, 2011, 10:13 pm »
I searched through previous topics and couldn't find one that matched my need, so I created one.

The space I'm working in has an old-ish wired ClearCom system (I'm not sure on exact numbers).  Recently, while the box has been turned on, I've been getting a feedback-type noise that my director describes as a "Chewbacca" noise. We've tried different channels, different wires, different headsets, and a different box.  Has anyone else every had this problem? And if so, what did you do to fix it?

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