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Stagehands & Technical »Stories & anecdotes
Stupied Wireless
Jeremy Sewell about 2 years ago
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SO I was on tour with a small musical production of Christmas Carol as there TD.I was also responsable for running audio durning the show. We were at a 1800 seat theater in Chicago and my worst nightmare came true. We loaded the show in as normal and for this show we were told that would use the touring system that was in for audio. Which was pretty sweet due to it was a large line Array system. So I get everything turned on and up and running and started seting up my Wireless mics. I get them all set up and started to test them and I realized that I cant walk more then 5 feet away from the rack without completely losing signal. I sweeped every frequency the recivers had and checked every connection and still the same result. I finally broke down and called the company we rented the wireless rack from and the only advise they could give me is that its eather a loose connection or there is RF interferance. So I ended up having to tell my cast that I cant get the mics to work and they are going to have to project as best they can to a 1800 seat full house. Ive never felt so helpless in my life! So we got through it and the audience appeared to injoy the show (or at least what they could hear). I checked out the wireless rack when I got to the hotel and everything worked fine so apperently the space I was at was a blackhole for wireless. Stupied Wireless!!!
As a writer and editor, grammar and finding good story topics is enough stress for me. I can’t imagine what it must be like to have to worry about technology failing as a regular course of my job.
My hat goes off to everyone in the technical theater field.
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about 2 years ago beingzoe said ...
Knowing my personality I would have been devastated for days. Those are the worst kinds of problems, inexplicable, unable to be duplicated under any other circumstance, and magically fixed under any other circumstance.
Because of the typo in your title, I couldn’t tell if you really wanted to say “Stupid” or “Stupefied” wireless since your problem was both stupid and stupefying.
Tell us more about your adventures on the road.