Since the move, it’s been relatively quiet workwise.
Since the American dance company, we seem to have had a season of return visits of a range of shows, most of which I’ve either covered before or else have talked about something that technically would be very similar.
I’d like to say that the lull in technical demands has meant that we’ve been able to hit the new home with the scale that we renovated the old flat but at that point, we didn’t have the lil monster literally underfoot. She is now sleeping a straight ten hours at night (WOO-HOO!) but is getting more active in the daytime and we’ve more steps to deal with now.
As we draw towards the end of November, I’ve just spent this weekend at work rigging surround speakers. Normally if we are putting surrounds in, we’d be looking at 2-4 speakers a level. For the Christmas show this year (a retelling of a panto classic now set in Blitz era London) though, we are installing a fairly huge speaker setup.
Just on the stalls level we have installed 26 speakers (E3 and E0) just for surround and throughout the auditorium total we have around 60 speakers rigged off derig arms, acroprops, scaff and I think shoestring in one instance
The main system will then be a Q-series array – which we know and like here but does run into the problem of audio shadow under the balconies so I suspect that we’ll be seeing some E12/C690 or similar when the array proper goes in, along with B2/Q-subs on each level and delay lines
It’s lucky in our schedule to have two days to do this rather than trying to cram it in around setting up the show proper and good that the producers have agreed to pay the extra staff/hire costs for the install.
It’s going to mean that when we start the get-in, a lot of the infrastructure will be in and that more time will be available to tune the system and rehearse the sound – which benefits the show and makes it a more pleasurable experience for the audience.
Certainly not always a viable option but nice to experience nevertheless
