Technical information
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- Contact telephone numbers
- Capacity
- Technical
- Artists' accommodation
- Stage inventory
- Lighting inventory
- Sound inventory
Contact telephone number
| Administration and booking enquiries | 01227 374 188 |
| Box office | 01227 373 322 |
| Technical (mobile) | 07940 317 179 |
Capacity
| Seating capacity | 500 |
| Standing capacity | 650 |
| Dining with dance floor | 250 |
| Dining without dance floor | 350 |
Technical
| Proscenium | 7.54 m x 3.9 m (W x H) |
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Width |
9.9 m |
| Depth | 9 m |
| Floor | Partial rake, partial lino |
| Access to auditorium | From stage left |
| Flying system | No facilities |
| Prompt corner | Stage right |
| Tech Projects communication system | Dressing rooms and four belt pack outstations |
| Wing space |
stage left: 5 m x 8 m (W x D). Grand piano stored here |
| Stage right | 3 m wide x 8 m deep |
| Get in stage right | 2.3 m x 2.7 m (W x H). Six steps up to stage level |
There is no facility for an orchestra pit.
Artists' accommodation
All rooms six steps down from stage left level
| Room 1 | 6 m x 4.4 m. 20 people maximum. Toilet and 2 sinks and 5 mirrors with lights |
| Room 2 | 4 m x 3.7 m. 10 people maximum. Toilet and 1 sink and 2 mirrors with lights |
| Room 3 |
3.4 m x 3.5 m. 80 people maximum. |
| Green room | No facility |
| Wardrobe | No facility |
Stage inventory
| Power | 1 x 63 amp 3 phase cee form located DSR 1 x 63 amp single phase cee form located DSR No clean phase for sound |
| House tabs | Red - manual operation wheel to stage right |
| Tabs on tracks | Hand line operation Overlap tracks |
| Tabs | 3 sets - 8.6 m x 4.55 m (W x H) Colours - 1 set each (black/red/gold) |
| Cyc. bar | 25 mm conduit - operated hand winch stage left 48 mm OD stretching barrels to sides |
| Legs | 4 sets - 1.5 m x 4.6 m - black (W X L) |
| Borders | 5 - 9.9 m x 1 m - black (W x D) Operated hand winch stage left |
| Ladders | A frame 1 x 10 step 1 x 11 step 1 x 16 step 1 x zarges 14 step extendable frame ladder |
| Piano | 1 x Steinway Grand |
| Portable rostra/riser | 750 mm square units, linking plates 13 units 500 mm high, 4 units 300 mm high 3 x wheelchair access ramps Handrails and blue valence |
Lighting inventory
| 2 x Strand JTM dimmer racks providing 30 ways of dimming, 5 and 10 amp circuits |
| 1 x Strand 200 48 way, manual, sub-master with chase effects lighting board |
| 1 x Cyc. batten bar, fixed |
| 4 x L/X bars on stage. Operated stage left via worm drive hand winches, max 4.5 m high. Patch at grid height stage right |
| 1 x FOH bar 12 circuit 10A - 8 circuits paired |
| 8 x ETC source 4 fixed beam profile (FOH) |
| 8 x ETC source 4 junior zoom profile |
| 1 x Strand cantata 1.2 KW profile |
| 5 x 1000 watt fresnel |
| 8 x Selecon 650 watt fresnel |
| 4 x pat 123 fresnel |
| 4 x PAR 64 floor cans |
| 2 x PAR 64 |
| 1 x Strand nocturne 1000 watt flood |
| 6 x Strand coda 3's flood |
| Note: Dimmer circuits are hard patched, ample time and discussion will be required to achieve a result other than basic. |
Sound inventory
| Front of house (FOH) - tie lines | Stage Left: 24 send, 8 returns Stage Right: 8 send Leading to panel at rear of auditorium. |
| Control booth |
Raised platform on castors, 500 mm floor height. Mixer and playback on desktop, F/X and EQ mounted under. 20 m trailing multi-core cable. |
| Mixer | Allen and Heath ML 3000. 32 mono + 2 stereo channels. 8 x VCA. 4 group. Matrix. 8 x aux. |
| Playback | 1 x Denon mini disc recorder 1 x Tascam mini disc recorder 1 x Denon CD player 1 x Cassette deck |
| F/X rack | 1 x Lexicon MPX 1 effects unit 1 x Alesis MIDI-verb effect unit 2 x Samson S gate 4, 4 channel noise gate 1 x Samson S com 4, 4 channel compressor/noise gate 4 x Samson S com plus, stereo compressor/expander 1 x dbx 266xl stereo compressor/noise gate |
| EQ | 1 x Yamaha dual 31 band (FOH) 2 x Behringer DEQ 2496 dual 31 band digital EQ (fold back) 2 x Behringer FBQ 3102 dual 31 band (fold back) |
| Speakers | Apogee based system: 2 x AE-5 + 1 x sub per side at proscenium arch. Total 3.8 KW. QSC RMX amplification (3 way, bass-mid-top) |
| On stage | Fold back 6 Channels from FOH desk 4 x Turbosound TQ 310 monitors 4 x Martin Audio F15 monitors QSC RMX amplifiers |
| Microphones and DI | 8 x DI Box (Mono) phantom powered 1 x Sennheiser e602 bass/kick drum mic. 1 x Shure beta 91 bass boundary mic. 6 x Sennheiser e604 clip-on drum mic. 1 x Sennheiser e614 h/hat mic. 4 x Beyer Dynamic M201 small dynamic mic 1 x Sennheiser e609 cabinet/percussion mic 6 x Shure SM 57 1 x Shure SM 58 radio mic 1 x Shure SM 58 beta 4 x Shure SM 58 |
| Stands | 6 x Rat illuminated orchestra stands 4 x 3 Section speaker stands 10 x boom mic stand 2 x Low boom mic stand |
| Other equipment and configurations | The system can be configured for conference use with speaker delays and meetings use. Smaller, stand alone systems can also be configured. 1 x Soundcraft F1 16 channel spirit folio mixing desk Behringer Dual 31 Band EQ 4 x Behringer shark |