I've got one you guys might like.
This addition was built onto the school somewhere between 2007-2010 (based on the architecture and what faculty talk about). They tore down the existing office
wing and stuck the
Auditorium up there, including a new gym, two Biology classrooms, and about 8 normal classrooms (7 are used for world language classes, the last one is used as a health classroom). They kept the
foundation in tact at the other end of the building where the original
auditorium was, and just renovated it on a ridiculous scale into the new offices. You can still see the higher-than-normal roof over the offices, despite having normal height ceilings inside.
Here's some of our mics.
Here's more of them. We actually got eight more just a while ago this school year. Sadly they're in an OSP instead of Gator rack. I liked the unity there was beforehand.
Don't worry, I fixed it so that what ever it is that's plugged into that
power conditioner is actually on the rear now.
Here's our video receiver rack. Those three little boxes are "Twister 2" receiver units, which are active/powered
VGA over Cat5E baluns. The transmitters are located on the front of the
stage, and these little powered boxes also
send audio and fit a gang
outlet plate.
Here's a slightly different angle.
Ah, the main booth rack.
From top to bottom:
Furman power conditioner, a
power relay (it's the master
power for the equipment in the booth and in a backstage cabinet, and it turns everything on and off in a specific order, so no loud pops), DVD player, CD player/burner,
Telex MS-2002, Tape
deck, broken
feedback filter (I just need to buy a couple capacitors, some of them bust open in it), our booth amp, and a Mid-Atlantic
power conditioner.
Here we have the main
patch panel for the board. It uses six Aviom AN-16 units, which are hooked up to our Mid-Atlantic patch panels. We currently have 5 receivers and 1
send unit in the booth.
Later on after taking this picture, I went and labeled each
snake with colored electrical tape. I did one color on each until I used every color I had, which
led me to doing dual-tone markings.
Here's our wall of
XLR. It has expanded since taking this picture.
This is where you start to see how serious we are with our equipment. This is a SoundCraft GB8 48. It's a beast of a board. It's a shame that so few people on my crew know how to manage a board like this, let alone do a proper mic check.
I've also fixed the strange patching. That
cluster of yellow
spike tape is where the
lapel mics are- now there's a nice, clean, single piece of glowtape with black
sharpie. Labels never looked so pretty before.
Believe it or not, I'm actually going to be managing nearly 40 wireless mics in a couple weeks on this board for our production of Jesus Christ Superstar. That'll be interesting.
Agh. The snakes broke out of their enclosure. Better get the tranquilizers.
It's really a mess behind the racks.
More mess.
On to lights!
Here we have our
ETC 48/96. Once again, I'm one of the few people on my crew who know how to use the advanced functions on this board properly- let alone basic functions.
Yay cables.
Photogenic cables.
I love that we actually got the official wallplate from
ETC.
Here's a double-edged sword. It's nice not having to go through a crawl space to adjust the front lighting, but you don't get to see what it actually looks like without moving the
hoist back up. On the bright side, it's so easy to mount special equipment on these (
disco ball, moving lights). We have three of these over the
house, and each one has one digitally dimmed 120v
circuit, a
DMX output, and six 90v analogue dimmed circuits. (And yes, I have operated the genie you see in the back, and held on for dear life while using the
cherry picker you see on
stage right behind the genie).
These are nearly impossible to adjust. You can't get the genie lift near them, and if you use a ladder, you need to put some wood under the feet to keep it
level, since the floor is on a slope.
Luckily, these haven't really needed much adjusting over the years.
Now here's the money shot. 7
Crown amps. Three 1000w units, and four 2000w units. You can push a mind boggling total of 11000w of air moving
power through our
system, provided you don't kill every
speaker attempting to do it.
The top 1000w
unit looks like it's for two of the three speakers near the ceiling at the front of the
house. Then you've got the next two 1000w units driving the delay speakers. After that, I'm not sure what each of the 2000w units drive.
We've got two subs, three normal speakers, and two or three (I never really bothered to look) delay speakers (all of them are JBL, including our three monitors).