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Main House Details

Technical Specification - Main House

STAGE

  • Proscenium with thrust and fly-tower over stage
  • Orchestra Pit with electric screw-jack lift
  • Pros opening variable – 8.8m up to 12.8m max
  • Pros height variable – up to 5.9m
  • Pros line to back wall 9.6m
  • Pros line to front of orchestra pit 2.8m
  • Height to grid 15.2m
  • 18 counterweight lines available for scenery plus 2 up/down S/L and 2 up/down S/R
  • Flying bars 11.75m long, max load 400kg. Total grid SWL 40 tonnes
  • Stage Management position flexible.

LIGHTING

  • 3 technical galleries FOH and Control Room rear auditorium
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  • Control Board 520i, 108 2kW and 12 5kW circuits
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  • 12 x Robert Juliat 2kW 15/38 profiles
  • 10 x Strand Brio 600W 18/30 profiles
  • 10 x Strand SL 600w 23/50
  • 28 x Strand 743 1kW
  • 12 x Par Can 1kW
  • 2 x Strand Cantata 1200W 26/44
  • 2 x Strand Beamlite 1kW
  • 8 x Strand 243 2kW Fresnel
  • Cyc floods and Gound Row

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SOUND

  • Operated from the Control Room at rear of auditorium - large window can be opened easily.
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  • Soundcraft K3 Theatre Mixing Desk, 25 mono, 6 stereo inputs; 2 Dual Group/EQ modules; 2 Dual Group/FX modules; 1 Midi Scene Set module; 2 Quad Matrix modules; 1 x Master module
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  • 2 x Studer A80 reel to reel tapes
  • 1 x Tascam 122 Mk3 Cassette Recorder
  • 1 x Tascam Twin CD- X1700 CD Player
  • 2 x Tascam MD 801 Mini Disk Recorders
  • 1 x Yamaha SPX990 effects unit
  • 1 x Klark Teknik DN504 compressor/limiter
  • 1 x Sabine FBX2020 feedback eliminator
  • 3 x Martin Audio EM76 centre cluster speakers; 4 x Martin Audio W3P Pros speakers; 2 x Martin Audio EM26 gallery infill speakers; 2 x Martin Audio EM251 sub base speakers; 4 x Martin Audio WM0.5 wedge speakers.

DRESSING ROOMS

  • 2 x Dressing Rooms at Stage level accommodating 
  • max 40; additional rooms available to accommodate 
  • max additional 40.
  • Facilities for people with disabilities available.

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The Crescent Theatre, Sheepcote Street, Birmingham B16 8AE. Company No: 699933, Charity No: 245054