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20 Blunts
Jan 21, 2017
I used to basically manage your pipe dream on behalf of a wealthy owner who built it.

They had that money-aint-a-thing approach, and installed a QSC setup for audio that connected into a greater Q-SYS network. So with a custom built app on an Ipad you could switch from the loud and banging stage speakers, to the quieter house system hanging in the space, which I would use for simpler conference events and background music. You could control lights on it too. There was a giant rack of power amps and servers and poo poo that physically controlled this.

So I can't speak to the theater v. sound differences, but in your pipe dream I think using a custom-networked system to have 2 systems is probably the answer.

If this pipe dream involves redeveloping an already existing space, let me just say that no matter how much money you spend that room is still gonna have its quirks.

I wouldn't be a good manager of that place if I didn't tell you that the fine detail sound differences between cinema and music audio would be the absolute least of your worries. Your concern about chairs actually foreshadows a deep problem of what it means to have an event space trying to serve different purposes. Sitting in banquet chairs for an entire film would suck, for example. So now you're doing a bunch of work for something that sucks.

It was fun working in that place :D

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