{"id":455,"date":"2018-03-04T04:29:35","date_gmt":"2018-03-04T04:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noiseoffreedom.wordpress.com\/?p=455"},"modified":"2018-03-04T04:29:35","modified_gmt":"2018-03-04T04:29:35","slug":"briefly-sound-tech-at-music-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/srv48890.seohost.com.pl\/kalissima\/briefly-sound-tech-at-music-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Briefly, sound tech at Music Hall."},"content":{"rendered":"

Sound technician. As I wrote earlier I got Music Hall venue. During sea days there is a lot going on like bingo, karaoke, gameshows and regular entertainment shows. Those things are done with cruise staff and most of them know exactly what to do sound wise. On the beginning of each cruise there is a tribute band and later on port days it is usually the house band. Days look alike. The ship is equipped with Q-Sys by QSC which is a large scale system for managing large venues audio wise. For those interested in technical solutions – read about it on QSC website. Something new for me and I thing it is a really nice solution for big venues. Basically it lets You control audio levels in rooms, halls, whenever you need through Q-Net and at the end You get a touch panel with a proper layout to control for example the level of music in the speakers, you can control microphone levels, on of a lot of things. It can be large scale. Nice for conference solutions, theme parks and.. cruise ships. I did their online training level one before joining and I can see it\u2019s potential – here in use.<\/p>\n

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Music Hall the Meyer system, JBL SRX800 monitors, Shure PSM900 IEM\u2019s and a Digico SD8 desk and 8 channels of Shure wireless systems (handheld or body pack – users choice depending on what is needed). Shows run every cruise with TimeCode are on QLab. At the sound booth there is also a video control panel for the screens placed in it, so to put them the MH logo, a band logo, dj logo, whatever logo or movie needed during a show that\u2019s currently running.<\/p>\n

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Most of the port days as a sound technician in MH I can go off the ship. After breakfast I swing by the venue to check if everything is properly left after the dj finished the previous night. Usually there is no need to be there again until 6pm when the usual activities start.<\/p>\n

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Workflow is quite obvious when a band arrives either a house band, orchestra or a tribute band. Soundcheck, then normal activities, then the band, than the dj. It runs smoothly as far as I am concerned.<\/p>\n

Music Hall is a busy place. Even being here a week and not even a whole cruise I can see there is and will be a pattern depending on which day it is as to guest attendance. What I really like, which is not a surprise for those who know me, there is time scheduled for ballroom dance classes and each day a ballroom music time – I like it that people here really like that and use that time, no matter what age they are, it\u2019s so nice and I look at it with admiration. Why? You just don\u2019t have it in Poland. Imagine what thought when I saw a Line Dance Class on the schedule – again – I have a pair of red cowboy boots, I am a fan of Line Dance! I always wanted to learn it, go ahead and laugh about it, that\u2019s just how it is.<\/p>\n

There are two other venues on Anthem of The Seas. Royal Theatre and two70. The Royal Theatre is much alike Musical Theatre In Gdynia before the rebuild. It has about 700 seats, similar size stage window, not as much storing place but that\u2019s obvious since we\u2019re talking about a cruise ship.<\/p>\n