Mildred & Ernest E. Mayo Concert Hall Technical Details

Lighting and Power

The Concert Hall lighting system integrates control of house, stage and accent lighting in each of two control systems. It offers flexible performance lighting options suitable for classical music rehearsal, performance, and lecture settings. Please note that gel and patterns are not part of the inventory. In addition, there is a skylight over the balcony behind the stage. The skylight cannot be blacked out.

Lighting Control

Colortran Viewpoint control system, with controls off stage right, and in the control room.

ETC Smartfade 2496 located in the control room

Lighting Equipment Inventory

48 Colortran ENR dimmers

12 fresnels permanent ceiling mount (1kW)

72 PARs permanent ceiling mount (75W)

20 Lekos, permanent mount, 10 house left, 10 house right (750W)

6 Lekos, movable, center lighting balcony (750W)

House lighting position, power and DMX inputs.

Power

Stage power – 9 stage boxes, each 120V/20A capacity (separate breakers)

240V/50A outlet available backstage (no snake)

Balcony and house, 10 duplex outlets, 120V/40A total capacity (2 breakers)

Sound and Video Systems

The Concert Hall sound system was designed to provide professional quality stereo recording facilities, and basic sound reinforcement capabilities. House mix, stage and rehearsal hall connections all terminate at patch points in the Control room.

Mixers

Soundcraft Delta 8 analog mixing board, 20 inputs, 8 bus, P&G faders

Mackie 1402VLZ portable analog mixing board, 12 inputs, stereo bus

Intellix AMIX 8 input automatic mixer

Microphone Preamplifiers

Milennia Media 8-channel microphone preamplifier

AEA MS380TX Universal stereo microphone preamplifier with dual-mode matrix

Digital Converter

Apogee PSX-100 2-channel 24/96 A/D

Microphones

Professional recording and reinforcement microphones by AKG, Audio Technica, Beyer, Neumann, Schoeps, Sennheiser, and Shure.

(2) Shure ULX wireless handheld / lavaliere microphone systems

Various mic stands, mounts, stereo bars, shock mounts and windscreens.

Recorders

Tascam DV-RA1000 PCM / DSD Digital Master Recorder (24 bit/192Khz maximum sampling rate)

Alesis ML-9600 Masterlink hard disc digital audio recorder (24 bit/96Khz maximum sampling rate)

2 Panasonic SV-3800/3700 DAT recorders (16 bit/48Khz maximum sampling rate)

Sony MDS -E12 Minidisc recorder (16 bit/48Khz maximum sampling rate)

Nakamichi MR-1 analog cassette deck

Playback

Sony CDP-D11 CD player

Processing

Lexicon PCM-91 digital reverb processor

Monitoring

KEF Mini monitors with KUBE EQ, fed by a Crest CC-151 amplifier

(5) Sony MDR-7506 headphones

(1) Furman HA-6B Monitor Amplifier

(2) Furman headphone breakout boxes

Music Playback System

JBL 4430 stage speakers, stage left and right, fed by a Crest Audio CC-151 power amplifier,

Voice Reinforcement System

(13) Soundolier CF-883 coaxial ceiling speakers in the audience chamber fed by signal from a Crest Audio CV-301 power amplifier fed by a White 4700 Equalizer.

Assistive Listening Devices

Sennheiser AudioLink infrared listening system with two emitters and 10 headsets

Video

Panasonic WVD-5100HS Camera in booth feeding monitors backstage and in the booth

Panasonic AG-7350 SVHS videocassette recorder in booth

Musical Instruments and Equipment

Musical Instruments

Steinway model D concert grand piano

Kurzweil Mark 12 Digital Piano

Music Equipment

100 Wenger Musicians chairs

100 Wenger Musicians stands

12 wooden RAT concert stands

6 sets of wenger choir risers

Speaker’s podium with integrated Audio Technica uni-point microphones

2 sets of Wenger 2-level conductor’s podiums

1 large Wenger conductor’s stand

1 small Wenger conductor’s stand

1 Wenger conductor’s chair

Equipment

Campus CATV connection in center stage floor box

Ethernet connection in center stage floor box

Telephone connection in center stage floor box