Freddie Posted December 20, 2004 Share Posted December 20, 2004 I'm just interested in how we compare with other schools (I'm at a comprehensive BTW) around the country. In our ~250 seat. Seats on three sides, small stage on other theatre we've got: Dimming/ControlFatFrog (Replaced Sirius)Sirius 24 running DMXZero88 Demux 484x +10v 6-way CCT dimmer packs (24 ways of dimming, all dual socket)64 sockets around venue (spread between Arena grid, Stage bars, Stage level and floor level)"Cord Patch" (The packs are touring-style - 15A sockets on front, cables from sockets in racks underneath, plug direct into packs.)Rigging and AccessSquare of Truss prewired with 15A above arena4 bars prewired with 15A over stage2 4-way T-barsScaff tower for rigging on main trussZarges for rigging on stageLantern Stock2x Selecon 2k Profiles5x Selecon 1k Fresnels3x 1k spots5x 500w fresnels5x 500w CCT Pebble Convexes (I think!)5X 500w CCT Spots4x banks of 4 500w floods3x PAR64s2x EVL Proscan 150CrewFull time AV/Theatre tech~10 Student Tech Crew (Yr9 - 13) Props/Set are seperateUpdated 11/6/06 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PDD Posted December 20, 2004 Share Posted December 20, 2004 260 seat theatre (in a public school, so possibly a little unfair in comparision!!!!), thrust/proscenium, full-time theatre tech (um, that's me... ahem...) ;) also...c.500+ seat concert hall, c.100 seat temporary venue (once a year). Anyway, this is what we have (using your categories): Dimming/Control2 x ETC Express 48/96 (1 for shows outside the theatre & back-up)ETCNet/DMX (currently with Zero88 Demux)WysiWyg (would consider Emphasis but prob not in the immediate future)Trusty old Strand STM dimmers (40-ways) - soon to be replaced with 72-ways of ETC SmartPack & a decent hard-patch.3 x Strand Act 6 portable 6-way racksAlso got a Strand EC90 48-way rack which we're waiting to have installed in our concert hall. Rigging/Access84 circuits around theatre (26 on FOH bridge, 22 over fore-stage, 16 over stage, 20 on stage). All 15A. Again, we're in planning to have a full refit (much overdue!), ideally taking us up to 100+ circuits, especially more in the air. Would be interested in opinions on the old argument of 15A/16A?Tallescope & Zarges.A bit of Trilite & wind-up stands for the other venues. Lantern Stock14 x Sil 30, 2 x Sil 152 x Quartet 15/25, 4 x Prelude 28/408 x Patt 2314 x Quartet F, 8 x Minuette F6 x Patt 743, 5 x Berkey fresnels10 x Patt 12318 x Par 644 x 4-way Minuette cyc floods3 x Single Minuette flood6 x Strand S-batten (my colleague loves them; I hate them!)18 x BirdiesA few other bits and bobs & effects (e.g. UV, smoke, pyro, etc) We also don't have any movers, although that's because we don't really need them to be honest. We hire the extras we need - recently we've had a S4 Revolution, and we trialed 14 x Thomas PixelPAR's on our last big show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickb12345 Posted December 20, 2004 Share Posted December 20, 2004 I cba to sype them all our here but our school has a community theatre with its arts collage stuff. The specs are all on the website: http://www.sindentheatre.biz > Information > "here" > Full Information Nick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomLyall Posted December 20, 2004 Share Posted December 20, 2004 I cba to sype them all our here but our school has a community theatre with its arts collage stuff. The specs are all on the website: http://www.sindentheatre.biz > Information > "here" > Full Information Nick<{POST_SNAPBACK}> "Over 50 Lanterns including Par 64s, Par 52s, Profiles, Silhouettes, Fresnels, Floor Cans & Flood Battens" Sure? ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the kid Posted December 20, 2004 Share Posted December 20, 2004 Its all Brag Brag isn't it well we had essentaly a beta-max rig Dimming/Control2 Tempus 6x2 Strand 24x2 analogue Rigging and Access4x 12 socket prewired bars 2 foh 2 on stage1 ladder 1 take down tower Lantern Stock1 x P234 x P1232 x P604 x P452 x P743 lots of other old floods that are 250w Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
computer Posted December 20, 2004 Share Posted December 20, 2004 ok local school I help at, its a public one with a 300 odd seat theatre... Dimming/Control Fat Frog Sirius Desk (24?) 4x Betapacks (Installed) 1x Betapack (Non-Installed) 2x Alphapacks Patch (62 15A plugs below the dimmers that plug into the front of the dimmers)Rigging and Access 2x 4 way outlets backstage either side (1 each side) 1x 4 way outlet near roof above stage used for cyc floods 3x 12 way IWBs (1x Over stage, 2x Above seating) 1x 6 way IWB FOH wall 2x 4 way outlet with vertical bar either side of auditorium (near stage (1 each side)) Genie Lift Scaff tower Zarge ladderLantern Stock 4x 2k Profiles 1x 1k Profile 6x 650w Strand Quartet Fresnels 4x Selecon 1k Fresnels 2x Patt 123? 2x Other Patts 4x Pebble Convex Lanterns (not sure) 2x Strand Coda 4way Flood Battens (500w each, used for cyc) 6x Strand Coda 500w Floods 8x 1k Par 64 (Longnose) 2x 575w Par 64 (Shortnose) 4x Par Floorcans 2x Pinspots 4x Birdies (and 2x 2way Transformers)hmm..comp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
themadhippy Posted December 20, 2004 Share Posted December 20, 2004 my school had12 chhannels of strand dimmingstrand 2 preset board, no timed x fades,no memorys 2 pat 23's2 pat 123's4 major floods Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon T Posted December 20, 2004 Share Posted December 20, 2004 School had: Control/dimming/signal: Fat Frog6x DMX betapak 21x zero88 demux Scrollers: 12x Rainbow scrollers Moving Heads: 2x High End studio spot 250 ;) Lantern stock: 12x Selecon Fresnels 12006x Selecon Pacific Profiles8x Par64 with CP62 lamps4x ETC Source 4 Juniors6x Strand Quartets4x Strand Coda FloodsCountless numbers of Par36 and birdies Lx Bars: 4 on stage LX bars 15amp with microphone XLR outlets5 FOH grid LX bars 15amp with 5pin DMX outlets and microphone XLR outlets Access 1x Scaff Tower2x zarge ladders2x chain hoists rated at 750kg per hoist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freddie Posted December 20, 2004 Author Share Posted December 20, 2004 Oops! Just realised the downfall to my comparison:If a school has staff/students sufficiently involved in tech to read/post on the forum, the chances are they'll probably have a fair bit of kit... Not really relevant (well not relevant at all really), but we do have a recording studio and an international award winning concert band. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benweblight Posted December 20, 2004 Share Posted December 20, 2004 our headteacher has suddenly that we are not allowed to use smoke (because she's worried about it going onto the audience), I don't see why, we've used it before we hardly ever use our lights as the bulk of our rig for big shows (although we do use them for small shows/gap filling etc.) Control/Dimming:18way Furze 2 Preset Board (master and preset buttons, 'dipless')18way Furze (delta?) Dimmer2x Botex Single Dimmers (usually for houselights or practicals)NJD 4ch Chaser Rigging etc:8 way foh IWB (some sockets paired)A few onstage IWB'SVarious spare sockets at roof and floor levelScaff TowerLarge Ladder Lantern stock(not many numbers sorry):A few Furze profiles (p23 copy I think)A few Furze fresnelsA few Minuette fresnelsLoads of rusting Furze floods (again, pattern copies)one or two old strand profiles (like a p23 put with a bit on front)8x Domestic Floods (house lights and bits and bobs on stage)A few other things (par 38, shop display lights ;), smoke etc) in terms of crew, at the moment, theres me and someone else on lights, and another two on sound etc., but it will be down to two in two years Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gareth Posted December 20, 2004 Share Posted December 20, 2004 Moderation : Following consideration by the moderation team, all the posts concerning the use of pyro in school theatres has been removed from this thread. This subject has already been covered in considerable depth in this thread and this thread, and as such there is absolutely no point in going around the same discussion for a third time. Using the Blue Room search facility with the search string "pyro in schools" brings up both of these threads within the first three results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AaronHorn Posted December 20, 2004 Share Posted December 20, 2004 I am a year 13 student at a state school. We currently don't have a lighting system which of our own. It used to consist of (now broken and defunct): 1x 24 channel Furse dimmer hard wired to a 24x(2x15A) patch board. 1x 2 resent 24 channel desk controlled by proprietary analog system. Currently on hire we have: 2x (1x15A) Strand SD6 dimmer packs (connected to 2 installed 32A ceeforms) 1x 24 channel Zero 88 Alocora with a long piece of DMX cable. In future the system will consist of: 1x 24 channel Zero88 Chili dimmer hardwired to the patch board. 1x Zero88 Fat Frog We have an FOH bar with two side bars along the hall (300seat general purpose hall with stage). On stage there are three internally wired bars at regular intervals. All bars come out to a band of ~50 15A plugs on the patch bar. Currently the school employs an AV/ICT technician to officially look after it. We have a three story scaff tower (used for other projects but mainly theatre). Our currently lantern stock consists of: 5x 500W SPKs 4x 1Kw spots (can't remember name or angle... older Furse things iirc). 1x Prelude of some sort. 7x 1Kw P64s (cheap ones) 4x Symmetrical house light floods (500W) 4x 3x3 (9 lamp) colour batterns. 1x flood light of some description 1x 1.2kW (Strand maybe) follow spot I don't know too much about the lighting stock as I am the noise boy. OT but the specs for that are 1x Soundcraft Spirit FX16 (16 channel) 1x Soundcraft Spirit Folio (12 channel) 2x 150W H/H amps 2x Phonic 10" monitors 2x Hung Community 15" speakers 2x Hung Community 12" speakers 7x Sennhieser mics 2x TOA UHF receivers 1x TOA Handheld UHF mic 2x TOA Lav UHF mics Lots of cables, stands etc and 8 channels of XLR (coming out in two places). Finally we have a large networkable Sony rear-projected system with AV and DSub connections in place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P. Funk Posted December 20, 2004 Share Posted December 20, 2004 I'm at y13 at a 950 pupil grammar school. We have a 200 seater multipurpose hall/gym type venue, with a tiny pros arch stage. We also have a small drama studio, which uses the CCT equipment mainly. Lantern stock:8 par64 cans2 par64 floorlites10 LDR tempo 500W fresnels4 LDR tempo 500W PCs2 strand quartet 15/25 zoom profiles9 teatro 500W cyc floods5 teatro 500W symmetrical floods10 CCT minuette fresnels2 CCT minuette profilesRigging etc44 5 amp circuits on 7 fixed bars2 doughty club stands + T barssmall scaff 'grid' over drama studioDimming/Controlzero88 Lightmaster XLS board4 zero88 betapack 2s with IECsIEC patchboard4 zero88 alphapack 1szero88 'level 12' 2 preset analog boardSo not the best kitted out in the world, but given the situation of the venue I think we're quite lucky we have this much! A £3m new building project including a multipurpose new 'arena' type area with fixed raked seating is just about to be undertaken, so its complete just after I leave ;) EDIT: sound (don't know much about)2 mackie art 500 speakersYamaha R3500 (?) amplifierSpirit SX desk7 trantec lapel VHF micsCD, MD, tape player built into same rack as mixer and ampAlesis MIDIverb2Behringer FX unitFeedback destroyer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
propmonkey Posted December 21, 2004 Share Posted December 21, 2004 Im in the US but I figured I might as well add in Venue:Main - 1159 seat auditorium with a 40ft prosceniumother – 200 seat little theatre 15ft proscenium Lighting:Main:96 Strand CD-80 dimmers (82 stage, 14 House)Strand 300 with 100 channelsR-120 remoteSeparate house control 18 – Parelilipspheres12 - Strand 15.3 degree12 – Colortran 12 degree9 – Strand 25/50 Zoom Lekos4 – Strand 30 degree8 – 6†fersnel6 – 3 cell Altman Cycs6 – 14†focusable scoops6 – Colortran 25/50 Mini Zooms6 – Par 642 – Strand 5 degree8-12 other broken and old fixtures Little theatre:12 Strand CD-80 DimmersStrand 300 with 50 channels 6 – 6†fersnels6 – Altman ellipsoidal6 – Colortran Mini Zooms2 – 10†scoopssome other old old fixtures Sound:Main (I don’t know that much about our system):Soundcraft 32 channel Delta SRAB international ampsEAW speakers and monitorsRane equalizersShure beta 58a mics, SM-57, and some others1 - handheld wireless7 – body mics Little theatre:8-channel mixer1 – 2 channel rane eq.2 - EAW speakers Rigging/Access:Well currently…30 pipe counter weight system…its has been condemned everything is out of code and were hoping to get it replaced very very soon.We have 3 electrics above the stage2 trees in the house6 coves Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SceneMaster Posted December 21, 2004 Share Posted December 21, 2004 My school’s light rig… Split between the Drama Studio and the Hall… Dimming/Control: Drama studio: 2x 6ch Furze Install Dimers analogue input (not sure what model but EDM series it think) 1x 12ch 2 preset Pulsar analogue desk Hall: 1x Pulsar 6ch Rack dimmer (arrr!!!, need more dimmers to run 24 sockets and fed up of hiring or using my four channel multi dim to supplement rig, talk about channel pairing!!!) 1x 18ch 2 preset Pulsar analogue desk (why for a 6ch pack I don’t know maybe someone in the past nicked the other two packs ) Rigging and Access: Drama studio: Proper Grid with 12 5amp :** laughs out loud **: sockets from dimmers no patching though!!! Hall: 24 Secure hanging point with 5amp supply to each… (the cabling needs replacing over 30 years old as this 40 something photographer came up to me one day saying wow they still using the cables I was using when I was 11!!! At least the dimmer is only 15 year old!!!) For access a big but decent scaff tower and a small ladder. Lantern Stock for both hall and drama studio: Now we come to the bit I am most proud of if you can be proud at all of our quite frankly rubbish system… 9x Sil 30’s2x Sil Follow Spots (one needs repair)6x Patt 60 Floods (need repair)12x Par566x Furze PCs (we had 12 but 6 randomly disappeared and it wasn’t PAT testing session)6x Patt 264s Loads of Patt23sAnd not forgetting the never used 6x T-Spots (or as I have been told here T-Pots) (We use 5amp to 15 amp adaptor for the bigger light such as sil30s as 15 amp were fitted when they came and what is the point in down sizing!!!) And for Sound… well lets just say it a LOT better off than the lighting which has only one real claim to fame which is to have the largest supply of filters a secondary school has ever had!!! For crew both Lighting and Sound myself and a few trainee year 7s Sorry to have rambled but I am fed up of this system and when ever I try to do something about it no one listens… so people wonder why I keep submitting hire orders for every medium to big event and that fact it would be cheaper to buy the equipment outright is not the point, then to be accused of taking the school equipment home when I was walking out with my own dimmer and desk and the fact that “hasn’t the lighting improved since we put £100 towards filter, gaffer tape and lamps†attitude seems to prevail when it is the use of my equipment free of charge which has improved it in the whole!!! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr…… ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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