[SML] Assisted Listening Systems

[Richard John Archer]

After 30 tears of so our ALS  is on it’s last legs…so….what’s up with these now?  Anybody using the ALS over WiFi via smart phones?  …our spaces  all have WiFi 

Our biggest problems have been:  essentially in trying to mic the spaces…..  In the proscenium, putting mics where they won’t pick up the audience but aren’t all  PZMs getting stepped on or mopped by over zealous students and dealing with a movable orchestra pit/apron.  
In our Flexible space dealing with  the “flexible”   Audience/stage relationship changes….lighting gets rehung.   ALS mics in wrong place or picking up too much audience or getting whacked about during changeovers

We also have a smaller flexible space, a dance performance space and a 99 seat film showing/ lecture hall space. All which legally likely need ALS.   Anything  that allows some sharing of equipment might  hlp on costs.  

Just the usual problems I suppose.  We’d like to put something up and more or less leave it and not have to fiddle with it on every show.(or have anyone riding the input levels)  

 Mostly we do straight plays without  actors being amplified.  Sound effects and music are all  through the sound system.   I think in 30 some years here we might have used the system a dozen times.  

Also…I know the laws have changed ….maybe last implemented in  2012??  Anything on the horizon  besides the population rapidly aging….What did he say????

A decent article about this might be helpful as well.  

Thanks

DickA
TD, Cornell U ( NY)