Tidy set up..

Last bit of prep for the degree shows next week. Trying a new arangement of the kit and seeing if it makes a difference to do a complete soft patch for the shows.

We don't normally soft patch as we work with groups for the most part. I think this may be making us lazy so a neat channel layout may help me plot more interesting presets over the coming 26 pieces!!

Not quite what I expected?!

So I've been pestering the Degree lot for tech specs for all of their 26 pieces to be shown over 3 days...

Today I was given these:

Various sizes of paper, some actually readable... still only 12 of them :/

Oh well...

Getting there!

It's been a bit of a slog getting the Saros gig together because to save money we've been borrowing kit from here and there.

But today it really came together. Twirlies are here along with a band. Lights are in and PA from STUK Sound arrives tomorrow. 4 stacks of D&B - way too much, I'll not be turning it all the way up.

Had a result with video too. We couldn't get hold of enough coax cable so some of the long runs were done via ballens and CAT5. Worked a treat :) Just need to bodge a projector shutter for the one without a Walberg and that's all sorted.

Doesn't look like much

But it was a steady morning to get to this stage:

Before and After:

A couple of shots of the Fire Station - (Saros) before the production and the dancers arrive.
Some very nice people at BIC hired us a scrubber/drier, without which I'd never have got the place so clean!! :)

Before:-

After:-

Coming soon

Preparing for the new Cloud Commission art work to go on the walls of the Social Space at DC.

The last work was very popular and we are really pleased to have him back.

http://thecloudcommission.blogspot.com/

Not a workin' day! :)

So today we weren't working...

We were up in Northumberland climbing on gritstone.

My word it hurts your fingers a lot more than indoor bouldering!

:o/

3D so far...

Less than a week till we get on site for the Fire Station gig now...

This is the latest render of the 3D Sketchup model I'm using for laying it all out to scale.

The director keeps changing things about but with this app it's easy to keep it all up to date :)

Vinyls

Here we have a quick vinyl job that I did today.

Customers have been a little confused as to which studios are which.

So there are now big numbers on the doors too!

Just when I thought it was safe...

I found myself sat in the void above the ticket office with a multimeter, a screwdriver and a torch fixing the control for one of our smoke curtain's.

What started out as a simple battery swap ended up with a search to find an intermittant break in the continuity of the hold up signal for the curtain.

Not a job that could have been put off unfortunatly as the curtain that would normally only drop to protect the ticket office was releasing it's self of it's own accord cutting off Janine from our customers.