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Me or Audition?🙂

Yup, so it is! The only difference I can see is that it's changed the Audition header from white to blue🤔

I often get given totally unfamiliar phones at the last minute, & at one time did a lot of dance competitions where every track was somewhere in the middle of an unlabelled TDK C90 cassette, but wherever possible I'll go for the lo-tech solution, hence portable CD player rather than expensive laptop, especially if I can't stay with the kit all the time.

Quite so (similar problem with TuneUp Utilities) Unfortunately my 2 main laptops are now Win 10, but I think I have a copy on an XP machine. I'm just curious as to what this "ms-gamingoverlay link" is meant to do.

I've had a few dicey moments with Big Ben for Remembrance Sunday events (where the margin for error is zero) with CD/DVD players going to sleep just before needed, so I now always have a tablet & a CD running within 1/2" of sync, but I haven't met a CD just going horribly distorted before.

Thursday night, the beacon-lighting in front of an expected 100 or so public turned out to be well over 500 in a complete circle, but that's another story. A request for a bit of music to fill at least half an hour, so out came the wind & strings compilation I've been using for at least 15 years. It sounded awful. Bearing in mind that this was a 2 horns, battery-powered amp & portable CD-player set-up in the middle of a park there were a lot of possible suspects. However a change to something more ceremonial sounded ok & the speeches were fine. Having checked everything next day it turned out that that particular CD (recordable CD-Audio) had failed since last used. Note to self: add all the CDs to the prep check-list (even if they have been recently used)!!

I was a great fan of Cool Edit Pro, & really resented Adobe getting their money-grabbing paws on it, so I have stuck at what is really a re-badge of the final version of CEP. Old doesn't have to mean scrapheap (showing my age?) - my go-to graphics software is still the Win98 version, my family history package was written for Win95 & both run faultlessly on Win !0.

Audition 1. Worked fine with Win 7, as did all my XP & earlier programs, but so far it's the only one that has failed with Win 10 (several Win 95/98 programs still working ok).

Just tried using Audition for the first time since "upgrading" my laptop to Win 10 & get this message on start-up. Anyone had this problem & solved it?

Mine are all the DI-1, which are passive (transformer)

Have you looked at MTR? I have several; not expensive when I bought them, well-built & no complaints with audio quality.

Am-dram doesn't always work that way; I have worked with large & small groups where the person directing the show is also the Producer, Chair of the Committee & Founder of the group.

CPC say aluminium

The Shure is a great little mixer (I've installed a few in the past) but not particularly cheap & possibly no longer available. I also have a Rack-Up RU-MX4 mixer from Canford, which is even smaller & neater, but again possibly no longer available.

You won't get an acceptable white from RGB pars, not even far more expensive ones than you are considering. The only cheap RGBW ones I've met have a cold white. Warming them up with a bit of red will only give a shade of pink, rather than a substitute for tungsten.

As someone has gone to the trouble of installing FoH bars in perfectly sensible places it seems perverse not to use all three, but if you just want a bit of front light for other users of the stage (& don't feel up to fighting the badminton brigade), a couple of 650W (or LED equivalent) fresnels on each side bar would do the job. E2A: By the way, don't knock the old. I have a 90-year old friend who is still a competent sound & lighting designer.

Well spotted

Agree absolutely (no "but"s)

Unlikely to be Bletchley - looks like flat open land, so far more likely to be Moreton. I used to regularly drive past in the 60s on the way to Evesham. Most of the accommodation & classrooms at BBC Evesham was still in these same "military" huts.

Any reason to suppose any of it is untrue?

Sounds like problem solved, but DO use proper theatre lights that can give an even field, not PARs or cheap disco lights.

With only over-stage lighting you are going to have trouble lighting faces.

I didn't go to Consultants School, but on the occasions I've worn the teeshirt I've regarded the role as firstly finding out from the client what they actually want to achieve (not what boxes someone's told them they need), which means talking to the people who are going to use it, rather than just the suits, sorting out their budget (which may have no slack if the money is a grant or legacy) & then writing a performance spec. Everything supplied needs to be "professional" quality & preferably industry-standard, but I am happy to let potential suppliers come up their own solutions, using brands they are familiar with, as long as they meet the spec or can come up with a convincing argument for varying it. Provided you can tease out of the client what they really want to do (beware music tech), this approach worked for me.

Seems logical (I don't think Mrs sandall would be impressed if I covered our remaining BC lamps with wire mesh), but who can tell what a PAT-monkey might decide to fail - nobody is ever going to be prosecuted for failing something that is safe.

Google throws up loads of suppliers from about £5.