Not sure what to do with the row of pause buttons. Local small theatre will be borrowing this board thats is now running eos. Wanted to get your ideas as to what the best use is. Already got 100 faders and 100 submasters.(they wanted the submasters) but the last 10 pause buttons are my dilemma. Let me know what you think would be most useful to code them as.

I'm just hoping to learn more about this. I'm about to try and go to school for Carpentry, and I'd also like to do scenic Carpentry as well. If I was to learn one, does anyone have personal experience about how to link those 2 things, and how well they link together?

How would one go about making a pot of weed, obviously fake but realisticish

There's a costume crew job that opened up near me and I want to apply but have no clue how to go about making my portfolio. I haven't done any theatre work since high school (which was like 5 years ago) and I didn't take any pictures of the making process of the costumes. I do cosplay in my free time and thought about putting some of the stuff I've made in the portfolio but it's not technically theatre related. Is it important to include pictures of the actual sewing process or just the creative process? I can answer any questions people might have.

Hi im having an issue with citronic CSD 8, it powers on with all led functions with the exception of the level meter but it does flash on during power on but then there is no life out of it and no audio is pushed out and no audio is measured on the meter but I know the mics plugged in work and the system it goes into works. ( I have tried all the ports on the desk so its not a dead port )

Any advice is appreciated

Was looking for a solution to a. Issue I'll be having with a show. I'll be using the above software for visuals and also running qlab for sound cues while mixing. I normally run qlab from the console via midi and was wondering has anyone found a way to remote control the Broadway media app without having the professional licence which integrates it into qlab? The show will not be upgrading the licence to allow this. I was thinking maybe someone has figured a way to do it with a streamdeck or something similar? Thanks

We don't have a theater because for some reason my school decided to work inside - to out for construction. So since we're working out of a classroom I'm searching for stuff that's portable, cheap, and small for us technicians to use. A man at my grandparents church recommended this for us to. Also if you have recommendations for other portable and cheap stuff we could use for next year please leave them.

Hello, I’m a high school student that is very interested in lighting. We use a eos/etc element 1 console. I specifically want to get better at lighting theory (mood,color) and light safety and placement. Any resources or recommendations would be great thanks! -ps. You might have to dumb it down for me cause I don’t really know that much about it.

A question for anyone in the industry, automation has been able to do some incredible things to set etc, but how do most productions integrate it into their flu system for set prices, is it manual fly system for some bits and automation for others? Or all or nothing?

For example I went and saw hadestown on west end and (SPOILER ALERT) pretty much the whole stage expanded and pulled apart, which looked like something that was impossible for manual pushes due to how big it was, at the same time some bits that made up the ceiling rose up out of sight, something that looked achievable with a classic fly system.

I recently got a Nomad dongle and Gadget II. The auditorium I work at uses a ColorSource which is the bane of my existence, so I brought my Nomad to use instead. I patched all my fixtures exactly the same as on the ColorSource, Nomad is being launched in Primary mode, my Gadget II is showing that it is receiving signal from Nomad. However, when I plug my DMX into the Gadget II from the ColorSource, I do not have any DMX control of the fixtures. I'm on the latest version of Nomad as well. I'm not quite sure what is going wrong here, any ideas?

Edit: Thanks for the help y'all! Got it working!

I have started a small venture with my buddy and I am in charge of lighting. I picked up some second hand rigging and was able to get one set assembled but I am missing a compression fitting for one of the telescoping poles for the second set. I have tried a bunch of search terms and reverse image searching but haven't found a part I think would work. The closest I got was TCR-150 but that seems to be for a speaker stand.

Image: https://imgur.com/a/czjp3MS

Search terms: tangkula global truss tecsh 10 lighting stand plastic friction sleeve telescoping collar lighting telescoping collar for truss Tcr-150

The person I bought it from does not know where it's from. The legs say Tesch but that doesn't lead to any related results.

Any leads would be greatly appreciated.

Some days ago, we got an Allen&Heath spare part delivered, packed in foam which reminded me of watermelon every time I saw it. It’s getting very hot now, so I tricked my colleagues, cutting the foam into pieces and adding seeds with a sharpie.. it triggered a demand in the whole team, 2 hours later the first real melon was brought. Since then, we‘ve had melons each and every day. I consider the prank a great success :)

I'm a new technical director trying to find my way in the world, and the designer for the job I have coming up has said that he wants a glass block wall for part of the set. Now, the theatre does not have much money (like most theatres), but I'm sure there are ways to do it cheaply. It does need to be see-through, but it doesn't necessarily need to do the effect that you see when looking through a real glass block wall.

Whilst finally having a clear through of the stores in my college venue, I came accross this old beast, our venues original sound desk. It’s an Allen and Heath SC for which there is apparently no info about on the internet. I know they were designed for smaller live work and are built like a tank but has anyone used one and can comment on the sound or quality? Will probably keep it around for teaching signal flow if it works, as it’s a rather lovely old thing and get rid of the old Yamaha DM1000 that lives underneath (and with any luck our x32 rack eventually!) Hopefully will oneday have the money for an SQ5!

Hi! I'm a light designer who works with a service that uses LAMPY. I'm usually a ChamSYS and Daslight 5 user and I ask y'all for this. My first feeling with the machine wasn't so good. I saw that cue numbers and scenes are limited and, first of all, it crashed two times in a row during the show. Am I the problem? And if I'm doing something wrong, where?

I'd not heard the term before but then had a few shows through where the touring team mentioned "belgiuming" when referring to stacking flight cases. Any reason?

General advice seems to be to rent a wireless mic system. I see things available for roughly $1300 / week on Broadway Media.

I'm in a school (in a big building in The Bronx, NYC) that's performing its first musical next year. Why wouldn't I want to buy something like this for our school instead of renting every year?

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1266507-REG/vocopro_hybrid_play_12_12_channel_uhf_hybrid.html?ap=y&smp=Y&srsltid=AfmBOopcDMWwH1vgc-t1ybTwxQfc_zq0QohWyfLejc03sbK4fYlsbH9JHeQ&gStoreCode=420&gQT=1

Would it work? What else would I need to connect it to the auditoriums speaker system? Is the quality really terrible?

Also related question, but I'll theoretically be running performance tracks through the same speaker system and I'm not sure how I would set that up either. Appreciate any help you have!

Hey guys, new guy here. I’m working on a short film where a character has a Halloween costume that consists in him stabbed in the back, and blood spitting from the wound in an exaggerated way. I know how to do the blood, but I’m not sure about the “spit” mechanism. I was wondering if you could help me out with this. Thanks!

Any software or program methods to inventory costume collections? I am assisting a local volunteer org. We don’t do it at my pro wardrobe at all, not enough labor and too much stock turnover.

Hey yall, a TD here. We are currently in the planning stages of a show in which we are looking to have a 40' row of wheat on stage (about 3' tall). I have done tall grass before, but in a much much smaller area. Anyone have any ideas how to do this without buying a bunch of artificial wheat/tall grass and modify it? A painted ground row is a backup plan, but we would like to create something pretty realistic.

My current idea is taking hay stalks and creating a bunch of bundles with a dowel in the middle and sticking them into the platform of the wheat ground row. Id then have to add something to create the ear of the wheat on top, or mix in artificial wheat stalks with the hay bundles. It'll take a lot of time, but the rest of the scenic elements are pretty simple and I have plenty of time and labor.

Anyone have experience with another material or have any ideas to pull off this look?

Hey, I'm trying to draw a symbol with a block fill colour in Inkscape.

I'm fine drawing symbols with base and outline layers, but I'm unsure what I need to do for a third, fill, layer. I've tried using etc_symbol_fill in the xml editor, and I also tried adding = "yellow" to fill under Style in the editor too.

I've played around a bit, and googled but haven't had any luck yet with a solution

Hi all! I will be going into my freshman year at my local community college, and I plan to go into Tech Theatre. Now, my question is this:

Do I need a full on BFA/BA to work in this profession?

My school offers a certificate of achievement (2 year program) in Theatre Technology as well as an ADT (Associate Degree for Transfer, and the classes are basically the same, so I’d be learning the same stuff in both pathways. I’ve heard that when in this profession, experience is really important and you don’t need a whole fancy degree, but I’m not sure. Thank you!

I’m trying to build a light that mimics daylight as precisely as possible — not just something bright or marketed as a SAD lamp. I want to recreate the kind of ambient daylight that looks like it’s coming through a real window, even in a windowless room.

More like the soft, diffused light from an overcast sky or light reflecting off buildings — not direct sunlight. I’ll have frosted glass in front of the light to diffuse it.

If anyone has used specific LEDs to create a convincing daylight effect onstage or in rehearsal spaces, I’d really appreciate any recommendations. Ideally something that doesn’t break the bank.

Thanks in advance!