Sound for the Masquerade (incomplete)
All sound will be mixed down to mono. All speakers will be playing the same sound.
- Sources:
- MC Microphone - Directional, on stand with boom arm
- Hand Held Guest Microphone (optional)
- VoG? Microphone - hand held, directional
- Cassette Player - with cabling to connect to console
- CD Player - queueable, pauseable, with cabling to connect to console
- DVD Player feed for projection half time show - needs direct boxes
- Outputs:
- Queueing headset for tape wrangler
- Monitor wedge on stage
- Monitor wedge facing front rows of seats to assist middle
- Left and Right Front of House Speakers
- Feed to clearcom (optional)
- Four channels of amplification to set separate levels for each of those speakers
Desirable items:
- Graphic EQ to deal with room
- Wireless Mics (deal with special needs, prewire MC?)
Wish List items:
- Sabine type audio processor for feedback prevention and auto room eq (Room is 'hot' for echos)
Equipment Needs: (Please add to this list)
- Mandatory
- 2 Directional Microphones
- 1 Boom stand for MC Mike
- Mic Cable to run from Microphone to snake (30')
- Mic Cable for VoG? Mic (10')
- Snake - 200' 8 in 2 return minimum, preferred 4 return
- 2 Direct boxes for DVD adaption
- 2 cables to connect direct boxes to snake (30')
- adapters to feed DVD to direct boxes (cables)
- power feed (extension cord) from stage power box to DVD/projector tray (30' ?)
- 4 channels of amplification with separate gain (can be self powered speakers or external amplification)
- monitor stage
- front center reinforcement
- house left
- house right
- 4 Speakers
- on stage monitor wedge (low)
- front of house wedge/speaker
- house left speaker (must push sound 100') speaker must be on stand
- house right speaker (must push sound 100') speaker must be on stand
- Cabling for speakers
- snake to amp x4 (adapters/short)
- amp to monitor speaker 20' ?
- amp to house center wedge 20' ?
- amp to house left/right 50' (depends on amp location, 30' might be plenty)
- Graphic Equalizer
- DVD Player that can feed projector and quickly queue movie studio press dvds
- Projector that can throw large screen and take feed from DVD player
- Cassette Player with headphone out for queueing
- CD player, queueable, with headphone out preferred
- adapter cables to take cassette player and CD player to console
- audio mix console minimum 8 in, mono out (stereo out fine, four channel out fine)
- Lights for Audio portion of control center:
- light for mix down console
- light for tape wrangler
- Desirable
- Extra directional mike and stand for guestsw
- wireless mice for general use
- snake with 16 in and 4 return 200' instead of 8 in and 2/4 returns
- audio mix console with 12 in, 4/2/1 outputs
- Nice to have
- Sabine digital audio processor for feed back reduction
- audio mix console with 16 in, 4/2/1 outputs
Setup Time Requirements
- Snake must be run and taped down before large public event
- Give 4 hours to run and tape snake given other interruptions
- Speakers and amps take less than 2 hours to set up
- Remainder of Audio should take less than 2 hours to set up
- Stage must be set before snake, speakers, amps can be set
