Recent content by TimMc

June Abernathy (Disney Theatrical) has a booklet of follow spot excuses she began compiling in Philly many years ago. I think it's for sale on Amazon.

Rather than a whole separate forum, how about a sticky post in each craft's forum? Scenic/design, LX, audio, props.

Dancers are &*&^*&% DEAF. If they weren't when they started dancing they will be when the teacher comes to the audio person and says "it needs more energy, turn it up."Well then, Instructor/coach/Teacher - pick tracks that don't begin with a pianissimo, fade up, or are under-recorded. That...

Diagnostic AI *might* replace practitioners who provide 3rd and 4th opinions, but that's a minor case. Generative AI is certain to replace creative people for the exact reasons you mention, but scaled up.

My thought is that the amount of energy transmitted down the "pin" of celli and bass viols to the floor is nearly zero. It's a mass and contact area thing. I suspect the benefit is more of the reflections from the floor back to the player's ears, and to those surrounding the player. Note that...

Generative AI will blow out the market for low and medium market creative people. Your jobs are gone, if not now, in the next 24 months.I've been saying this since Covid was a thing and it's actually worse than I thought it would be. This will be the end for 25-60% of creative people.When...

A conversation requires that more than one party is engaged.More than a pocket, think "bushel basket". That things have not changed significantly in the 45 years I've been in production and presentation is what really, really concerns me. Either we've reached the end of the intellectual...

"Dear Designer - don't worry your pretty little head about addressing, we're still figuring out how to fly the overloaded battens off the deck after you blithely ignored the weight limits you were sent.""Dear Master Electrician - don't worry about addressing, we'll clean up the mess of...

Road cases are typically covered with ABS plastic. I think it unsuitable as a stage top cover but what do I know?

And from looking at the patch bay.... 10 dimmers with 5 jacks each. You have 33 load circuits with labels and another 10 that were either never provisioned or represent outlets that didn't have a dedicated luminary hooked up. You should have 33-43 cords/plugs. The circuit breakers for each of...

You need a "gray pony tail" person to stop in and suss out your remaining questions. The basic concept of how this was meant to work should be fairly obvious to Ye Olde Folke. People who've never used analog-controlled dimmers simply won't understand "there is no app for that."If you have an...

I like the idea of remote desktop.Dell Refurbished dot com. Almost always a coupon code for 30-50% off around "US Holidays on your calendar". You can almost always find something useful if your uses aren't demanding.The ultra-mini PCs on Amazon are cute and some come with sketchy Windows...

It goes back to your initial question: what is "inventory." I took it to be piece count. 2 racks.The bigger question is how to provide power to this rig, as just the PAR cans will pull ~330 amps/line by themselves. We have 2, 200 Ampere 3 phase services. But that's not part of the question...

I believe the answer is A.100 PAR64/1k, 25 control channels = 4 fixtures per control channel; 2.4kW dimmers means 2 dimmers per control channel. 50 dimmers. 75 Source 4 575, 25 control channels - 3 fixtures per control channel, 2.4kW dimmers means 1 dimmer per control channel. 25 dimmers for...

Welcome to 'the Booth'.If you're not sure how it is supposed to work, how can you tell what parts you need? Also, your lack of familiarity with this makes me question the wisdom, i.e. SAFETY of any work you might attempt on it. I define safety as in possibly electrocuting yourself or burning...