Community Theater Green Room Discussion Board: Wireless Mikes

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   The battery promo is a good idea. never though of that. Thanks.

Also, The venue we rent includes in with the rental all their lighting, dimmers, gels, and sound equipment (mixers, limited # of mics, etc). However, we have our own lighting truss, lights, dimmers, computerized control system, sound mixer, etc already, so we won't be making use of the Theaters in-house system. 

Labor: The Buskirk Chumley Theater is a union facility, and we must have at least 1 union tech on-site at all time. In total, he will end up costing around $250 per performance. 

As to the Box Office: The Buskirk Chumley Theater keeps all Box Office up to 30 days after the event, in which case they subtract their rental fee's and labor charges. In the end, even at a 1/2 house we will still be up $5,000 per performance after they take their $1,100 per day rental fee, $50 ticket printing fee and $350 union tech fee. We then pay out techs and musicians out of that and in the end, receive about $3,200.00 for each performance. 

When all is said and done though, for us, renting the Theater is cheaper than if we owned our own. 

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landon2006 Star Joined: 3/10/08 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 55	Posted: 3/28/08 at 5:12pm
	The battery promo is a good idea. never though of that. Thanks. Also, The venue we rent includes in with the rental all their lighting, dimmers, gels, and sound equipment (mixers, limited # of mics, etc). However, we have our own lighting truss, lights, dimmers, computerized control system, sound mixer, etc already, so we won't be making use of the Theaters in-house system. Labor: The Buskirk Chumley Theater is a union facility, and we must have at least 1 union tech on-site at all time. In total, he will end up costing around $250 per performance. As to the Box Office: The Buskirk Chumley Theater keeps all Box Office up to 30 days after the event, in which case they subtract their rental fee's and labor charges. In the end, even at a 1/2 house we will still be up $5,000 per performance after they take their $1,100 per day rental fee, $50 ticket printing fee and $350 union tech fee. We then pay out techs and musicians out of that and in the end, receive about $3,200.00 for each performance. When all is said and done though, for us, renting the Theater is cheaper than if we owned our own.
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bmiller025 Star Joined: 10/06/05 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 82	Posted: 4/05/08 at 5:09pm
	It is common and pretty much necessary when using wireless microphones that each microphone have its own separate input channel on a mixing board. This way, the sound level generated by each microphone can be adjusted individually, to account for variations in how loud each singer is, microphone placement on their body, etc. You will need an expert sound engineer or two to operate that many microphones, and a pretty huge sound board as well. You described microphones that seem to share channels for transmission to the control booth. I would be very cautious if you are combining two microphones for each received input to the board. What happens when one performer has a really big voice, and the second has much less output? What happens when someone's costume is interfering with the microphone, and their "signal-mate" has a solo coming up? You can completely take out the noise generated by the costume, but you will lose the soloist as well.
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