Practical Show Tech

[mackerr]

In these trying times, where we are all sitting around trying to be productive, Kelly Epperson, Pete Erskine, Bruce Kraemer and I have started a series of webinars relating to production techniques and equipment. While it is not strictly a "theater" site, we are trying to offer a learning experience in many facets of modern event production. Monday's first episode is on ClearCom's Freespeak wireless comms system. It will be at 9amEST, it is scheduled to make it more accessible to people in Europe Asia and the Middle East.

 

In the afternoon at 4PMEST there will be a session with RAD explaining their split band UHF/VHF wireless comms system. With today's crowded RF environment you can free up a lot of UHF bandwidth with this system.

 

Previous sessions, which are available in the archive on the site, have focussed on production for webcasts for high end corporate meetings, a field that will expand as corporations find it the only way to do business today and an economical way to do business even after we all return to what was normal a month ago. We have also had a couple of sessions with Rom Rosenblum on ClearCom about Freespeak, HelixNet, and Agent IC, as well as a session with James Stoffo on RF, and Jess Heimlich on Unity intercom which uses your mobile phone as a 6ch user station.

 

More of the schedule, registration link for each webinar, and the archive are located on the website at https://practicalshowtechcom.squarespace.com. We are currently showing what's coming up this week, but are almost fully scheduled through April 15 at this point. There will be sessions coming up on Vectorworks plug ins, Shure Wireless Workbench, Qlab, what it means to be an A2 in TV, corporate events and theatre.

 

It's free, we are not making any money on this, it is just a way to do something and offering a learning experience for others. Stop on over.

 

Mac Kerr

Edited March 29, 2020 by mackerr

[Stuart91]

I spent some time last night in the Wireless Workbench webinar, and it was very worthwhile. Really appreciate the effort that's gone into making these happen.

 

Definitely worth checking out anything relevant to what you do.

[mackerr]

I spent some time last night in the Wireless Workbench webinar, and it was very worthwhile. Really appreciate the effort that's gone into making these happen.

 

Definitely worth checking out anything relevant to what you do.

Thanks for the kind words Stuart.

 

The currently posted schedule goes through episode 21, The Faraday Cage Match on April 10. This will be an open discussion between 7 renowned RF Frequency Coordinators from around the world. For this session, #16, Lunch Break with A2s, and #19 The Town Hall discussion of the state of the industry we will using a different platform, Zoom, so we can have more than 6 panelists onscreen at the same time. Our hope for the town hall is to be able to open mics of attendees to permit broader conversation.

 

I hope those of you who are interested join us, and watch the previous episodes that are available for viewing via the "Show Archive" on the Practical Show Tech Homepage. All times listed on the homepage are US Eastern Standard Time so GMT will be 4 hours later. If that drives the time too late to view live, all episodes are available to view from the archive about 24 hours later.

 

Hoping we can provide an opportunity to learn something new,

 

Mac

[mackerr]

I spent some time last night in the Wireless Workbench webinar, and it was very worthwhile. Really appreciate the effort that's gone into making these happen.

 

Definitely worth checking out anything relevant to what you do.

 

On Monday April 13 at noon Eastern Standard Time (NYC time, 4pm GMT I think) Phil Barrett will be doing a 2hr webinar on the basics of Vectorworks for audio and video. At 4pm EST(8pm GMT?) Gary Trenda of PWS will be doing a 2hr session on the basics of RF coordination using PWS' IAS coordination software. All sessions are free, and all sessions are available for replay from the archive about 24hrs after broadcast.

 

Register for these and other sessions, as well as view the line up of future sessions at Practical Show Tech. https://practicalshowtechcom.squarespace.com

 

There are over 20 sessions available in the archive right now.

 

Mac Kerr

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