production meeting 8

Initial sound department risk assessment

Risk Assesment Table by Sol Collier on Scribd

Sound department budget/equipment list

This week the sound department went through all of the equipment we needed and then accumulated a budget based on the hire prices from the company CPS.
 The equipment we needed was:

Orchestra:
3 keyboards - 6 DI boxes
Bass Guitar- DI with in built combo
Electric Guitar- DI box with amp and mic
2 woodwind musicians- 2 overhead mics
Trumpet- SM57/Clip on mic
French Horn - Clip on mic
Drum kit - 7 mic standard kit

Microphones:
16 radio microphones
6 hanging microphones
2 floor microphones
16 microphones for the orchestra

Desk and speakers:
Yamaha M7CL
4 PS10 tops
2 LS500 subs
DS108 front fillers
TD controller
Rio rack/Ether sound rack - dependent on sound desk
16 channel analogue multi-core cable and maybe a 8 channel multi-core as well.

We then worked out how much all of the above was going to cost and we took off the schools normal 15% discount which we get every year from this company at the end of the bill.

If we used the full setup with the CL5 sound desk it would cost us :£6130

If we used the full set up with the M7CL sound desk it would cost us : £5620

However this is over our budget by thousands as out budget is £3500, so we decided to get rid of the things we had at school which we could use such as most of the DI boxes, the drum kit microphones and some of the monitor speakers as we had our own. we eventually managed to get the price down to £4600 which was the lowest possible. But is still £1000 over budget.

Production meetings 6+7

In these production meetings the sound department has begun drawing technical sketches of how the equipment and cabling will be laid out in the hall. This has involved two different drawings , one of the hall as a whole and another of the band pit.

 

This is the band pit drawing. (^) 

This is the notes from production meeting 7 (^)