Porthouse Theatre
Porthouse Theatre is an outdoor theatre space based out of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. This theatre runs through Kent State University where staff and students work at this theatre. Porthouse abides by the guidelines of the University Resident Theatre Contract with Actors’ Equity Association.
Before Load in At Kent State
Packed equipment from theatres and storages
Fixed cables
Tested equipment
Checked digital patching on board and amp racks
Check all computers and Imac
Test NDI video soft ware
Strike speakers down in theater space at Kent
Set up to load trucks in loading dock
Get a battery count and element count
Load into Porthouse
Took two 40 foot truck loads to get all the equipment to Porthouse from Kent.
First truck was all road cases, cable carts, bucket lift, filing cabinets and shelves
Second truck was all lights and speakers
Stored all lights and road cases in dressing rooms at theatre
Hanging Speakers and Running Cable
Hanging speakers
Hung 5 main speakers on grid
Hung 5 delays on catwalk with 3 second delay patched to them
One foldback speaker with orchestra feed patched to it
SFX speaker for sound effects
Sub was flown in the air and put in the middle of the grid
Running Cable
1000ft of speakcon cable to speakers on grid and catwalk to dimmer room and amp rack
XLR for headset to the board connected by snakes
Network for video feeds (stage feed and Music Director feed)
Used scissor lift to get to the grid
Walked on I Beams to get across the grid and run cable for Speakcon
Speaker Plot
Used a Genie Lift to hang speakers and run power to them from the Amp rack in the Dimmer Room to the grid. To access the grid from the catwalk my team had to harness and connect to life lines that spanned the grid and walk on I-beams to reach the center.
Speakers being hung:
6 Xi-1082’s
5 SX300
1 EVID 6.2 Special Effects Speaker
1 subwoofer
Front of House Booth
Boards
Venue SC48
Vocals, Qlab, God mic, page mic, Orchestra feed mains
Behringer X32
Orchestra feed from Furmar stage box backstage
Those feeds were sent to buses (keys, guitars, percussion, and bass)
Buses sent to Venue and into the mains
Amp racks
Main rack
Used Cobranet for digital patching
Furmar stage box
Used Audia for digital patching
Each system had a high pass filter, gain, and delay patched to it
Little Shop of Horrors
Assistant Mix Technician
Responsibilities
Set up orchestra
Test all microphones and inputs
Run line check with the band
Turn on all equipment and amps
Set up video feeds of stage and music director
Strike orchestra each night
Orchestra Instruments
Guitar (DI box and amp)
Bass (DI box and amp)
Electric piano (DI and amp)
Full drum kit (kick mic, snare mic, two overhead mics)
Godspell
Audio Engineer
Responsibilities
Set up orchestra
Run all cable for guitars and test amps
Set up mics for amps and area mics for Ukulele
Turn on all equipment at Front of House booth
Run a line check with actors
Live Mix vocals for the run of the show
Strike equipment at the end of the run
Orchestra instruments
3 acoustic guitars (Amps with DI out and mics on amp)
3 electric guitars (Amps with DI out and mics on amp)
Mandolin (amp with DI out)
Ukulele (area mic)
Bass (DI and powered speaker)
2 electric pianos (DIs and Amps)
Full drum set (kick mic, snare mic, two overhead mics)
West Side Story
Assistant Mix Technician
Responsibilities
Set up orchestra
test all microphones and inputs
Run line check with the band
Turn on all equipment and amps
Set up video feeds of stage and music director
Orchestra Instruments
Stand up bass
Full drum set
Electric Piano
Electric Piano connected to Main stage program on Mac
3 wind players with an array of instruments
Two trumpets
Trombone
Cello
Violin
