[SML] Sound playback for dance

[Ray Gibson]

I ran my last dance concert directly on the CL3 with a spare USB drive as a
backup.. If the board fails it doesn't matter if I have an analog backup
anyway.

Just run SFX/QLab, have a cd taped to the bottom of the console as your
emergency backup.

You could probably also activate a cd player's play button via relay or
serial from SFX/Qlab if you need them to start at relatively the same time.
Or a monkey pushing both buttons at the same time...
On Sep 9, 2014 7:37 AM, "Bill Potter via Stagecraft" <
stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:

> During our Spring Dance Concert last year, we had a couple of CD player
> failures where the player just stopped playing in the middle of a track and
> skipped to the end of the track, paused and ready to play the next track.
>
> Looks like our aging Marantz CD players are approaching end-of-life status
> and we’re wondering if it’s time to ditch the CDs as our primary playback
> for dance performances. Our Director of Dance has checked in with her
> touring dance company contacts and has decided we need to go with some kind
> of sound back-up system, i.e. two sources playing simultaneously so the
> backup source can be unmuted in case of failure of the primary source.
>
> Any suggestions for a dual-source system? If we go to a computer based
> system, (we have experience with both QLab and Macs Cue), then we’ll still
> need a backup. I’d imagine the backup would be a CD started at the same
> time as the computer based sound. The other possibility would be either a
> dual CD player or separate CD players. Anyone know of Dual CD decks where
> one button can start both players?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Bill Potter
> Arts Technical Director
> St. Paul's School
> Concord NH 03303
> 603-229-4696
> bpotter at sps.edu
>
>
>
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