[SML] Sound playback for dance

[Keith Arsenault]

we now have a dedicated Mac Mini in the booth  ( with a persons fire wire 8 in 8 out for more sophisticate shows )  but on all of our shows . . both in house and rentals , unless there is an overriding reason why NOT everything gets loaded into Q lab . . 

have used SOUND BYTE  as well . . ( it mimics an old fashioned radio station  8 track cart rack )   and it can be very use full as well although there can sometime be a delay in clicking on Go . . etc  as opposed to Q LAB . . 



Keith Arsenault
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On Sep 9, 2014, at 10:37 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.
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> 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.
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> 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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