Blog 16: Advisory Meeting #2

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What is the best way to optimize a stage for a successful production?

 

1) Answer #2:

Using state of the art lighting boards and audio mixers, is the best way to optimize a stage.

2) 3 details to support the answer:

•  With the use of a new lighting board you can manipulate the lights that are attached to hydraulics. What is meant by "manipulate" is the ability to move the lighting fixture in real time to follow an actor on stage.Moving them into different focus zones for the next act without having to manually move them while on a ladder. This task can be achieved remotely through the lighting board.
•  With audio mixers you can combined multiple channels into one. An audio mixer uses a plethora of incoming audio channels to: raise or lower the gain, increase or decrease each individual channel, along with turning off that channel completely or even have the ability to still listen to a channel without it going through the speakers.
• With a state of the art audio mixer it will give the best audio quality and will have systems in place if there would happen to have audio feedback.

3) The research source (s) to support your details and answer:

Source: 

11-ETC manual: goes into detail on each function the lighting board can do. 

13-"How to use an audio mixer": gives you a full tutorial on how a lighting board functions.

4) Concluding Sentence:

With the ability to use a modern lighting board and audio mixer allows the technician the ability to have to correct lighting and crisp clear sound.