What kit do you have at your school?

[Jammie300]

Lighting:

6 Patt 223

8 Patt 264

2 Minim F

2 Prelude F

4 PAR 64

2 Zero 88 Betapack II

Zero 88 Alcora 12/24 Desk (Eugh)

A mixture of 13A 15A and 5A sockets(which I have been trying to persuade the manage the management to change!)

 

Sound:

1 Soundcraft Delta 8 (Ex BBC - Pebble Mill RIP) With Spare PSU and Channels (I have 1 Master Channel 1 Group Channel and 1 Input Channel)

4 Celestion SR1

Yamaha SPX1000

Behringer Graphic EQ

2 Shure SM58

4 Plate Mics

 

 

James

[iamchristuffin]

Queen's College, Taunton

 

Shared between our 4 spaces (350- seat theatre, 210 seat PAC, 140-seat Studio, 40-seat 'Hut' (No really, it's a hut!)

 

LIGHTING

 

2 Fat Frog Desks

1 Sirius 24/48

1 Strand MX48

About 40 1kW Par64s

16 Cantata PC

4 Cantata F

10 Cantata 18/32

4 Selecon Pacific

12 Selecon Profiles

2 Strand SL 15/32

12 ETC ParNel

6 ETC ParMMC (I think that's their name - Thy're like ParNel's with interchangable lenses)

1 80W Strobe Unknown make

6 Betapack2 dimmers (63A and 32A)

6 Strand Act6 dimmers (63A)

2 Chilli 24-10i dimmers

 

SOUND

1 A&H GL2400-32

1 A&H MixWizard 16:2

4 other analogue mixers - various makes

4 EAW speakers

2 Peavey MAGASUB's

2 Sherman speakers

1 Sherman sub

CD players, MD players (5 or 6 of each)

6 Sennheiser ew100 G2 radio MKE3 radio mic's

1 Sennheiser ew300 Handheld radio mic

 

I think that's about it.

 

 

EDIT: Added things!

[PDD]

I probably don't qualify for this topic, but as I work in a school and you guys like kit lists, here's mine as it stands at the moment (off the top of my head):-

 

200-seat theatre/500-seat school hall (depends on configuration) + 80-seat studio (Black Box room). To be demolished in (hopefully) 2 years time and replaced with all-singing all-dancing new theatre and drama dept.

 

Lighting

 

ETC Congo Jr. with Master Playback Wing

Strand LX12 (studio)

6 x Zero 88 Rackmasters (36-ways) + 3 x Betapacks (18-ways patchable) + 2 x Betapacks for the studio.

 

4 x Acclaim 18/34

6 x Source 4 profile copies

6 x Prelude 16/30

14 x Cantata PC

6 x Quartet F + 8 more in the studio

8 x Quartet PC (studio)

5 x Minuette profile (studio)

24 x Par 64

4 x Floorcans

8 x Minuette Cyc floods

2 x Coemar ProSpot

2 x Coemar ProWash

 

Sound

 

Allen & Heath MZ3 14:4:2 or Soundcraft Spirit Studio 24:8:2 (main) + rubbish Behringer mixer (studio)

Yamaha P3500S amps

4 x JBL M330 tops + 2 x Ohm MR450 subs

The usual CD players, MD, etc.

Behringer Ultracurve EQ

SPX90 effects unit

Sennheiser Evolution-300 4-way radio mic kit

Various mics & additional portable kit.

 

Staging

 

78 x Litedeck sections + legs, etc.

 

Plus 1 x Technician to run it all...

[Guest]

Lighting:

• 1x SmartFade ML
  
• 1x Z88 Level 24
  
• 1x Strand GSX
  
• 30 channels of green ginger dimming
  
• 4x Betapacks
  
• our rig connsists of various amounts of the following: starlettes, tipos, 743s, 123s, 23s, 814s, Sil 15s, Sil 30s, Turbo Sils, Acclaims, Minuetes, Zoomspots, nocturns, minuette floods, codas and some other floods of which the name escapes me
  
• z88 demux
  
• 4x UV battons
  

 

Sound:

• 1x Soundcraft Series 200B
  
• 2x Spirit Lives
  
• 2x Spirit Live 3 squared
  
• 1x Soundcraft K3
  
• Exposure 7 Amp
  
• Audiolab Amp
  
• a sony amp and various others
  
• 4-6 x Tannoys
  
• 2x Rogers
  
• 2x large main speakers known as "Brutes" (been there for years so cant help with identifying them
  
• 3x lavalier wireless mics
  
• 2x handheld wireless mics
  
• 4x SM58s
  
• 12-4 multicore loom
  

 

AV/Misc.:

• 1x 6000 lumens Sanyo projector with a custom telephoto lense (will update tomorow evening with model when I return from open day and set construction)
  
• 1x Sony projector
  
• 1x Hitachi projector
  

 

There's probably something I've forgotten, but hey. I'm rather tired and have an open day tommorow!

 

EDIT: SPaG

[Bryson]

6 ETC ParMMC (I think that's their name - Thy're like ParNel's with interchangable lenses)

 

I think you probably mean Source 4 Par MCM. (Metal Cold Mirror) It's a regular Source 4 Par (with interchangeable lenses) with a special mirrored reflector that allows IR light (and therefore most of the heat) through, rather than concentrating it in the beam.

[Light Console]

Here's mine, althouth looking at it, I need to update this on our website where I ripped it from very soon...

 

Lighting:

 

Desk: ETC Express 48/96

Dimmer Channels: 57 x 2kW (ETC Smartpack)

2 x IWBs Front of House 16kg UDL/2m span (1 x 12 channel, 1 x 9 channel)

3 x IWBs attached to the Truss, 30kg UDL/2m span (12 channel)

Truss: Raised/lowered on 8 x 1/2 ton Lodestars

1.1 ton uw (min) - 4 ton lw (max)

 

Lanterns:

24 x ETC Parnel

10 x ETC Source 4 Junior Zoom , 25-50°

6 x Red Rebel 650w Fresnel

4 x Strand Quartet 650w Fresnel

2 x CCT Minuette Fresnel

2 x Par56 300w Parcan

(Currently suplimented with 6 x LED PAR56, 2 x Polaris 1K Fresnels and 6 x Par64 Parcans from my stock)

 

Sound

 

Mixer: Soundcraft LX7ii (32 channel)

 

Playback:

CD Player/recorder - Denon (CDR-W1500)

CD Player - Marantz PMD321

Minidisc player - Sony MDS JE-480

 

Outboard:

1 x Alesis Midiverb4 reverb unit

 

Radio Microphones:

Receivers - Sennheiser Evolution 500 G2 series (15 Channels), for use with:

6 x Handheld Microphones (Sennheiser 500 G2 series)

15 x Beltpack Transmitters (Sennheiser 500 G2 series)

15 x Lapel Mics (Sennheiser ME2)

6 x Trantec Headset Mics

 

Microphones:

2 x Rifle mic (Sennheiser)

7 x AKG 461 (separate capsules/heads)

2 x Audio Technica Midnight Blue (Cardioid)

2 x TOA DM-605 (Dynamic)

 

Speakers:

2 x LEM Pegasus 212, Main PA Left and Right

2 x Turbosound TCS-081C, Central Cluster, fixed to Truss

6 x JBL Control 1, 3 fitted to each FoH IWB as fill speakers

4 x Tannoy (soon to be upgraded to Turbosound TCS-081C)

 

Other Items:

Sennheiser Infra-red Hearing aid system, with 6 receivers

6 x tall boom arm microphone stands

4 x short boom arm mircrophone stands

 

Control Desk

DVD Player, with preview monitor

VHS Player, with preview monitor

NEC GT5000 Video Projector (with longthrow lens)

10 source video switcher with touchscreen control

Sound patch field (Jackfield)

Vision patch panel (BNC)

Ethernet patch panel (RJ45)

3 x ISDN lines

2 x Ethernet/Broadband lines

 

Drapes/Flats

 

Drapes:

8 x wing legs - 2m00 x 6m10 (6'6" x 20')

2 x backcloths - 8m58 x 6m10 (14' x 20')

Proscenium Arch - 2 x legs and boom arms, 1 x Border.

 

Flats:

4 x black felt book flats - each flat is 1m32 x 5m50 (4'6" x 18')

 

Edit - oh, and lots of staging by Kleu.

[jakefraser]

Well across the federation, which is essentially two schools, we have (and this is shared between two drama studios, two 15A halls, a 5A hall and a 15A portable rig):

 

Lanterns

Selecon

10x Acclaim 500W 24/44 Profiles

2x Acclaim 500W 18/34 Profiles

2x Acclaim Axial 600W 18/34 Profiles

36x Acclaim 500W Fresnels

6x HUI 500W Floods

3x 4-way HUI 500W Groundrows

16x Rama 150 1kW Fresnels

 

ETC

12x S4 Zoom 15/30 750W

 

Strand

4x Patt 813 650W

2x Patt 23 500W

12x Patt 833 500W

16x Minim F 500W

6x Prelude 16/30 500W Profile

6x Prelude F 500W

 

Teclumen

2x Theatro 1200 MSR Follows

 

Controls

3x Strand 200 24/48 w/o video

1x Zero88 Elara 24/48

2x Zero88 Level 24

 

Dimming

1x Green Ginger 20-way 5A

4x LightProcessor Paradime 6-way H/W

2x Zero88 AlphaPack 2 15A

3x Strand WallRack 24-way H/W

 

Unfortunately the sound gear is all from IT/AV installers who don't have a b****y clue as to what they're doing or specifiying or wiring or ANYTHING, so I shan't bother mentioning it!

 

I know we could be doing a lot worse. Although I am trying to convince my school to spend £50k+ on a new project but we'll see about that one...

 

Jake

[rudigure]

This is what my old school has, a few years since I was there.

The school is Belvedere College in Dublin. The O'Reilly Theatre is the school theatre.

 

STAGE LIGHTING

Dimming:

8 No. Strand Lighting Act 6 dimmer packs (each 6 No. 2.5kW channels)

 

Control:

1 No. Strand Lighting LBX 125 desk c/w monitor

1 No. Strand Lighting hand held rigger’s control

 

Lanterns:

8 No. Strand Lighting SL15/32 zoom profile spots (600W)

12 No. Strand Lighting SL23/50 zoom profile spots

12 No. Strand Lighting Cantata fresnel spots c/w barn doors 1.2 (T29)

6 No. Strand Lighting Cantata PC spots c/w barn doors

24 No. Thomas PAR cans CP62 Wide (1k)

12 No. Strand Lighting Coda 1 cyc floods

18 No. Strand Lighting Nocturn floods c/w barn doors (1k linear)

2 No. Comar follow spots

 

Pre-wired Bars:

12 No. 3m 6 circuit pre-wired bars (each with 3 No. double hook clamps)

12 No. 20m multicore extensions for above, c/w Socapex/15A plug spiders

12 No. FOH lighting booms

 

 

Cables & Accessories:

6 No. 15m 15A/15A extension cables

12 No. 10m 15A/15A extension cables

12 No. 5m 15A/15A extension cables

12 No. 2.5m 15A/15A extension cables

6 No. boom arm brackets

4 No. standard lighting stands

4 No. tall lighting stands

2 No. follow spot stands

6 No. fly rope lights

 

SOUND

Main PA System (Mixing):

1 No. Allen & Heath GL-2200 24/4/2 mixer c/w Littlite

2 No. Tannoy Revel active monitors

 

Main PA System (Effects rack):

1 No. Furman PLE-8 power supply

1 No. Lexicon MPX-1 multiple effects processor

1 No. Tascam CD150 MkII CD player

1 No. Tascam MD-801 R MkII Mini-disc player/recorder

1 No. Tascam 112 MkII cassette player/recorder

1 No. Symetrix 533E 2-channel graphic equaliser

 

Main PA System (Rack):

1 No. EMO CM6/CS6 power supply/switcher

2 No. Crown Micro-tech 2400 2-channel amplifiers

1 No. Symetrix 533E 2-channel graphic equaliser

1 No. Behringer Ultra curve

2 No. Martin Audio EMX-1A 2-channel loudspeaker controllers

1 No. EMO line level splitter

 

Main PA System (Loudspeakers):

5 No. Martin Audio EM-76 loudspeakers

 

Speech PA System (Rack):

1 No. Audio Technica 4/1 Smart Mixer

1 No. Phonic Power Amplifier

1 No. Symetrix 531 Single channel graphic equaliser

 

Speech PA System (Loudspeakers):

5 No. 40W 100V line column loudspeakers (not supplied by Rae Sound)

 

Communications System (Rack):

1 No. Metro-Audio intercom system

1 No. Ampetronic ILDP induction loop amplifier + ID11 pre-amplifier

1 No. Video distribution amplifier c/w patch bay

3 No. Bar bells

 

Loose Sound/Communications Equipment:

2 No. EMO 252 DI boxes

3 No. Beyer table microphone stands

2 No. 10m microphone cables

 

STAGE MACHINERY

 

Rigging:

8 No. 350kg manually operated single purchase counterweight sets

6 No. 120kg manually operated hemp sets

1 No. 21m wide fixed position key controlled electrically operated house curtain track

1 No. 250kg manually operated drum proscenium house border winch

6 No. (3/side) 2.5m wide manually operated swivel side masking bars on up/down stage tracks

6 No. (3.side) 1.5m wide manually operated proscenium side masking panels on tracks

 

Drapes:

4 No. (2 pairs) mulberry velour house curtains each headed to 6.5m x 7.5m drop, with black Bolton twill lining

1 No. grey wool serge house border headed to 14m x 2.5m drop

2 No. (1 pair) black Bolton twill mid/rear stage curtains, each headed to 7.5m x 5.7m drop

6 No. black Bolton twill side masking legs, each headed to 2.5m x 7.5m drop

3 No. black Bolton twill borders, each headed to 14m x 2m drop

 

Loose Equipment:

1 No. 14m T/70 rope operated overlap curtain track

2 No. wooden storage boxes for stage drapes

130 No. 14kg counterweight weights

20 No. 7kg counterweight weights

6 No. 2m scenery braces

4 No. 3m scenery braces

6 No. 4m scenery braces

11 No. 15kg brace weights

1 No. 8m working height Tallescope

 

FORESTAGE ELEVATOR

 

Elevator:

1 No. 9.9m x 2.5m elevator, 7.5kN/m2 static load, 5.5 tonnes dynamic load, with 6 preset levels

[heinz57]

Crickey, some of you have alot don't you?

 

Anyway, this is what we have at my colllege, mostly old stuf but its a small theatre and it gets us by. I guess if we did have moving heads etc the lecturers wouldn't use them.

 

Here goes,

 

Lighting (my area)

 

- Strand GSX digital DMX lighting desk (100 channel model I think) NO kolidascope sotware

- 24 channel Sirius 24 manual analouge desk

- 6 zero88 betaback dimmers (6 channels, each, with two sockets for each channel doubleing the amound of patchible lights from34 to 68. WOO) split into 3 phases, Blue, Red and Yellow

- Zero 88 Demux 48 Demux unit

- Half (yes half) of a zero88 Delta5 4 channel soft patched dimmer unit (half because 2 channels wasnt working, pat test guy took it to fix it in July and it never came back!)

- 70 15amp sockets spread around the theatre, about 50 on the grid and the rest in foot light sockets at 5 points around the theatre

- Around 12 1K fresnel lanterns (brand is spotlight)

- Around 4 - 5 500W fresnel lanterns (Again spotlight brand)

- 8 1K Profile spot lanterns (guess what? SPOTLIGHT BRAND!!)

- 1 500W Profile spot lantern (Spotlight)

- PAR 64 lanterns (not sure how many, in a word, ALOT. I think its about 12-15)

- 8 PAR 16 'Birdies' (Seldom used)

- 10 standard flood lights. The type that look like outside security lights on a house. (6 used on the grid as houselights, 2 used behind the cyc wall as safelights for actors and 2 used as uplights)

- About 4 - 5 old profile lanterns. Strand I think

- 2 'breadbin' fresnel lanterns made in the 1400's (1970's or 80's I think)

- A respectible abount of around 10 15amp extensian cables for lights 5m and 10m I think

- A respecible seletion of gels and a few gobo's (gobo's seldom used)

- A follow spot. Guess what brand? Yes you said it, SPOTLIGHT!!

 

Sound (Not my area but im going to take a shot in the dark and say) note thigs with * are shared between us and the music department

 

- 9 - 12 channel sound desk. Unsure of brand

- 2 CD players mounted on rack (Sony)

- 2 mini disc players mounted on rack (Sony)

- 3 lapel radio mics

- ALOT of standard hand held mics requireing 3 pin XLR's*

- ONE HECK of alot of sound cables, XLR's, Jack - Jacks, XLR - Jack's etc*

- Smaller 9 channel sound desk (Belongs to the music department but us lot in performing arts take it on tour with us)

- 4 grid mounted speakers

- More speakers, bass bins, monitors etc which belong to the music department

 

Other stuff

 

- 6 channel mobile dimmer rack with fader control for each channel (Sirius 24 can be hooked up to it put it never is. Dimmer runs off 13amp and running 6 theatre lanterns off it when only one sucks out more power than suitable for a 13amp socket is rather fun) Used for touring only

- 2 T-Bars each can hold 4 lights. Mainly used for touring

- 13amp extensian cables (Alot of them)

- 2 channel 13amp dimmer set (home made by our ex-techi. It works like a chalm accept one of the channels doesnt simmer any more, its just on or off)

- 3 strobe lights

- 1 smoke machine

- cue lights system, never used

- TBack system, sometimes used

- Rostra staging with wooden decks. 'bridges' for use when using double and tripple decks

- Saftey barriers for rostra

- Stage weights and saftey braces

- H+S equiptment including gloves and hard hats

- 1 set of adjustable height aluminium ladders

- 1 scaffold tower

- Retractable 'racked' seating with seating for 100 people

 

Might not be much put it gets us by

[smalljoshua]

Everyone on here is really quite lucky. Although the lighting at my school Does the Job the sound is appalling and the sooner it is replaced the better.

 

Josh

[artimis]

Everyone on here is really quite lucky. Although the lighting at my school Does the Job the sound is appalling and the sooner it is replaced the better.

 

Josh

 

Lucky is, of course, a rather large joke; I believe you make luck. I'm on a technician band and it's annoying that we all work when we're not busy and then come back to college to be depressed. Will do list tomorrow after get-out pain has subsided.

 

Sim

[cedd]

To quote some famous philosopher;

 

It ain't what you've got, it's what you do with it!"

 

 

Given the right operator, it takes very little to make a space look well lighting-wise. We have "only" 24 channels of dimmers in our hall, but while I was LD, I never used more than 18. 24 seems just that little too much (plus it left a 32a socket free for my own pa system to go in).

 

As for sound, well the brand name does sometimes help. The fact is, we never get the same sound out of our 300 quid carlsbro active's as I do from my own Mackie/Electrovoice rig. The cheap Beyer mics are noticeably distorted at anything more than normal singing, whereas my own SM58's and Sennheisers sound much better.

 

The thing we lacked at school (while I was there) was somebody who actually had a theatre background to show us the ropes (quite literally sometimes). I had to get my technical theatre experience from out of school and then apply it when I got back. I've just done a few jobs for my old school (sound) and each time we've covered ground that I covered with last year's technicians. Knowledge just doesn't seem to be being passed along. Ideally a school's drama teacher will have been involved in theatre and maybe even from a directing/production side of things. The best we ever got for our productions was "ooh look, he's angry, make it red"!!! Not condusive to good lighting design. Wish we'd had a dedicated performing arts technician!

 

 

As my old school (which I listed above, but don't think it's a great idea to name) have very little sound kit, they also tend to borrow my kit in, sooo, I may as well list that too;

 

Allen & Heath GL2400-24 desk

Mackie SA1521z's x 2 loudspeakers

Electrovoice SXA100+'s x 2 loudspeakers

Mackie SRM350's x 2 loudspeakers

TC Helicon Voiceworks effects

TC Electronic M300 effects

Samson S-com compression

Shure SM58 x 3

Shure SM57 x 3

JTS radio mics - 1 x handheld, 2 x lav/headset

1km XLR cabling (No I'm not joking!)

24x4 45m multicore

8x4 45m multicore

5 x comms beltpacks with headsets

1 x comms master station

500+ metres 16A mains cabling

hanging mics x 6

SE1a x 2

Behringer DI boxes

db technologies in-ear monitoring

show control pc running multiplay

 

and a partridge in a pear tree!

[smalljoshua]

You are totally right. I have created what I believe to be good lighting using only 12 of the 18 available channels because of breakages. I have never been able to get good sound out of the sound system though.

 

There is just one minor component missing. A Playback Device. We had a nice new Sony Pro CD player but when Connevans came and installed the current abomination they took it away stating it was dangerous.

 

I have tried to plug in my own laptop but haven't been allowed because the Sheet Connevans supplied with the system states it will damage the system if you plug a laptop into it, even thought the supplied mixer has multiple phono Inputs.

 

What A Load of B*****s

 

Josh

[techiegsy]

Well... we are currently in the middle of a new installment (although it has been in planning for months, schools, eh?) so I'll give a list of current and To Come... (spose its cheating). School - Elizabeth College, Guernsey

 

Lighting

1x Strand Genius GSX (25 Channel, D54 or DMX, We now use DMX for movers, but the capable desk hasn't arrived)

4x Strand Act 6+

4x ETC Source 4 Jr Zoom

2x Strand Quartet 22/40

2x Strand Quartet 25

4x Quartet PC

4x Cantata PC

2x Patt 123

1x Patt 803

2x Patt 823

8x Par 64

4x Mac 250 Kryptons

2x Mac 250 Wash

2x LED Par's

1x 18' Mirror Ball (and Motor)

2x IWB on sides, Technially FOH but its a hall.. 10x 15A Plugs, 2x 13A Plugs each.

2x IWB Between the side bars: 6x 15A Plugs, 2x 13A plugs each.

1x IWB Right at back 6x 15A Plugs.

1x IWB Above Stage 4x 15A Plugs, 4x 13A plugs.

Coming

1x Avolites Pearl Tiger

4x 1.2Kw ADB Europe Series Frensel

4x 1.2Kw PC Lantern

3x 4 Battern Cyc Lighting

 

Staging (Still To Come)

1x 10m x 6m White Cyc

1x 10m Hall Stage Type T400 Track, Walk Along.

4x 12ft x 4ft Black scenery flat.

4x 12.5 Kg Stage weight

4x 2m Scenery Brace

And some actual movable staging... of which I don't know the details

 

Video (Still To Come)

1x Sayno PLC XP-51 Projector, 4000 Lumens (Standard Lens)

1x Unicol Gyrolock Hanging Bracket

 

And a Le Maitre Neutron Star Hazer.

 

Sound is Still not finalised, I'll add it when it is (I'm not a noise boy...)

Dan

 

EDIT: Sorted out so last two sections displayed properly, Got rid of pointless headings to make it shorter and added school name and board descriprion

[steve h]

Hmm, as people are listing I suppose I may as well join in -this is off the top of my head and im only on blue room atm cause I cant sleep as im ill - so it may change in the future!

 

I work at this school, just outside oxford...

 

Lighting:

 

We have 7 Betapack IIs which move their way around school as needed

Lights controlled from JesterML and Jester24/48

 

2x Martin Mac 250 Entour

2x Martin Mac 250 Washes

8x Source4 Zoom 15-30deg

16x Source4 Jnr Zoom 25-50deg

8x 650w Fresnels (zero88 zooms)

2x Patt 743s

4x Par64 floor cans

8x Par56 LEDs

4x Coda Floods

10x Par16 Birdies!

 

As a performing arts school we have the main hall, drama studio and small rehearsal studio. We also have a top quality recording studio and quite a bit of sound equipment round the place. AV comes from the media course with various versions of Macs and various projectors called on when needed. Alot of this is funded by hire of the equpiment to keep it all running (if you're interested contact me!), and is all run by myself and another part time technician.

 

Steve