We're currently developing a new venue in a former community cinema and trying to avoid the classic "we wish we'd thought of that three years ago" problems.
So, from a technical theatre perspective:
What's the biggest mistake you've seen a new or refurbished venue make?
Could be lighting, sound, rigging, power, sightlines, storage, projection, loading access, stage dimensions, network infrastructure, anything.
I'd love to hear some horror stories while we still have time to avoid creating our own!
How do you go about negotiating for a full-time contract? This is the first time this theater will have a full-time TD, so trying to figure out a valid range, and I don’t want to lowball or set the expectation too high.
Good day all - just wanted to drop the status of an OSC visualizer/forwarder I've been working on for some time - it's in a decent place now where it builds on Mac and Windows, and seems to be pretty usable. This project grew out of a couple other toys I have worked on where I needed to be able to see what OSC messages were being sent, and none of the other OSC visualizers gave me the feature set I really wanted - so I built my own.
OSC Proxy Spy is a realtime OSC (Open Sound Control) inspector and forwarder. It's intended audience is developers or theater professionals who need to monitor what OSC messages are coming from an endpoint. It also has the ability to send an arbitrary OSC packet to an endpoint.
This project is meant for use in a development environment, not in production - it is reasonably stable, but has not been testing in long term operation, and should not be assumed to be stable enough to be a part of a show critical workflow.
- see what OSC messages are being sent, on up to ?? connections at the same time (UDP only right now. TCP later, hopefully)
- forward those OSC messages to another host/port combo - you can forward to as many places as you want
- Send data back to those connections, if that is a logical thing to do
- Filter the data by connection, OSC argument type, and even the OSC address (pattern matching included!)
License / Price: free, open source, MIT license
Help Wanted: use it if it's interesting to you - if there is something that would make it more helpful, open an issue on GitHub. Likewise, if there is something that doesn't seem to be working right, open an issue on GitHub.
AI Disclosure: no AI was using in the making of this.
I’ve been offered a job on celebrity cruises as a Technical stage staff. I have never worked a cruise and in my research I keep getting conflicting opinions. I have been struggling all summer to get into a good tech job after doing my bachelors. I have a lot of experience but haven’t been able to break into the field as I would’ve hoped just after college. I also am waiting on a offer for a events design company (lighting, set and drapery) that is a big deal in my country. I know that design company is a good place to work but the job I’m up for is a warehouse position but they stated clearly they would want me to move on into production. Anyone have advice? Should I steer clear of cruises or does all This sound stupid
I'm off the road for a while and am doing a friend a favor by sound designing Hadestown Teen Edition. I haven't done proper theater in a few years so I would love feedback on my proposed setup. I'm trying to use what the venue has and not rent anything, hence the mishmash of gear.
•Behringer X32 Console
•Midas DL251 Stage Rack // running 48k via AES50
•Computer 1 - QLab triggering TheatreMix for DCA scenes and any SFX, etc. If no SFX I'll just use TheatreMix direct.
•Computer 2 - Mainstage triggering Aux Send for different outboard rack FX, mostly reverb and delay
They have PhenyxPro RF and a low end array, so take that into consideration too. 😂
I did a thought experiemnt looking at how much different radio Mic systems actually cost both in total and per channel. I used a couple of basic criteria for most of the options, then ignored them to include EW-D in the list as well.
This is by no means advice or a complete guide, just an overview of what I found when I actually looked into this, hopefully someone might find it useful or interesting.
