Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Can you hear it now?

Today we just installed the new 'House Main' speakers in the theater. They're Community CPL42-94s. Four of 'em. They're also about a third of the size of the previous speakers. Of course, this involved me crawling up in our crawlspace over the theater ceiling, thru 20 years of dust to run the lines to them from the booth. At least I made Boss get up there with me. Hey if we've got to do this work ourselves, he's gonna get dirty too. The access is over my workbench, thru a hole in the ceiling. This crawlspace is about 5' tall at the best, but most of the time you're ducking in and around I-beams, electrical conduit, plumbing pipe for sprinklers or upstairs toilets, or big-ass conduits. There are two places that are tricky to maneuver over, two ducts, about 30" square. The first has a plumbing pipe (probably drain outflow from above) about a foot in front of the duct about 3' high, and angled I-beams on the other side. There's ONE place where theres enough space to duck under the pipe, and, laying flat, crawl over the duct sideways, dodging the beams on the other side. You can find this one place because it's been wiped clean of any dust by the last time I crossed over up there. Anyway, it took about 6 hours to run the lines and mount the 4 speakers (two got hung from the lighting grid, but two were cabled up thru the ceiling around a pipe above. New holes in the ceiling, woo hoo.), and then test them. But boy, oh boy, do they sound nice. and virtually invisible to the audience. We hear them in action on Thursday night.

1 Comments:

Blogger deafgirl said...

you _would_ do that after i left!
plus, i always wondered what the crawl space looked like.

9/12/2006 7:25 PM  

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