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I’m not full time at the venue and only work evenings when they are closed, so email is the only way, unless I call in main jobs time……

Evening All, I have a Le Maitre MVS Hazer on my hands which has a dead fan. Naturally Le Maitre have been very quiet when contacted about it so I thought I'd try here. Has anyone come across this issue before? If so, how did you get around it, was it a fan replacement or Hazer replacement? If a fan replacement, where did you get the fan from as I have not been able to find any spares for the MVS online - apart from the heater tube. Any advise and help would be amazing - then I can get this door stop out of my workshop!

As I work in a major hospital as a main job, it is standard practice for us to clean all devices with a Chlor-Clean solution made up of 1,000 p.p.m. for anything that has come into contact with COVID-19. This includes mains cables and other plastics. Just remember that the mixed solution is not meant to be kept for more that 24hrs and not use the same cloth from one item to the next so to prevent “double dipping” the cloth there by contaminating the clean solution. We also use Clinell Wipes as well as a general wipe down clean as well. There is no reason for either of the above not to be used to help clean any audio equipment as well.

From my experience, we have SCS as our venues default playback. This works well and, as others have said is easy to use and quick to set up simple playback cues. We also have done some very complex sound scapes on it, which from my understanding as I don’t use Qlab, Qlab would have been either far too expensive or may not have coped as well - as said - I have no experience of it and this is from talking to folk who have had experience. We also have various companies coming in wanting to use their own method of playback for tracks and that is perfectly fine by us IF THEY operate. If they want us to operate, we will take the time to transfer to our PC SCS. I will not operate a visiting companies show on their system due to the fact that I do not know it, use it or had any experience on it. We will normally know 6 weeks before hand what the playback situation will be as we have a tech meeting with the company so we can plan and assist them as much as we can, it will be at this point that we discuss with them the benefits of using our system to their iTunes or Windows Media, if they are insisting on using their method, then we will tell them they will need to find an operator to do the playback side, that way we cannot be held responsible for any failed cues or computer errors. If the visiting company want to use their own kit - it’s in their hands, same with operators, if they want to bring in their own mixing desk, I’ll happily move mine out of the way for them. It’s all down to horses for courses. We have on the very odd occasion, stripped out our sound rig for the VC to bring their own kit in - but, it was a very odd occasion and it was a 3 month run of their show, so it made sense.