THE DUKES LANCASTER TECHNICAL SPEC – RAKE THEATRE November 2020 LIGHTING
Lighting Positions
The Rake Theatre has two fixed lighting bridges Front of House. The main bridge has two bars at heights of 6.2m and 7.2m from the stage floor. This bridge is 5m DS of the proscenium arch. The other bridge has a bar at a height 6.2m above the stage and is 12m DS of the proscenium arch.
Also Front of house, there are two 4m high vertical booms - one on either side wall. These are 5m from the proscenium. There are also two 5m long horizontal bars each side that run from the proscenium to the booms.
On Stage, there are four winched LX bars at a height of 5.6m approx from the stage floor and 12m long. There are two further LX bars in the upstage ‘well’ area, hauled via hemp lines. These are at a height of 5.4m approx. and are 6m long.
Dimmers & Patching Phasing is split between FOH, Grid and Dips. The Main FOH bridge has a local IEC patch panel enabling 24dimmers to be patched to 48 evenly spaced 15A sockets along the bridge. Other FOH positions (Advance, Bridge2 & Booms) run to an IEC patch panel in the dimmer room which enable patching to a further 24 dimmer ways.
In the grid there are 42 ways of dimming via 15A socket boxes which distribute to the LX bars via multicore. There are also 6 ways of dimming on the proscenium booms via 15A outlets. These circuits are duplicated on each side of the stage. There is a hard power & DMX line to each onstage LX bar.
At Floor level, there are four dips downstage, mid & upstage. The down & upstage dips pair with the opposite side, but the mid dips are all separate. In addition, there are eight dips in the upstage ‘well’ area. All of the dips run back to an IEC patch panel in the dimmer room giving 12 or 24 ways of dimming. NOTE: The dip patch is shared with The Round theatre, so the number of dimmer ways available is dependent on production requirements.
Lighting Equipment
The following list shows equipment allocated to this space. There is also a shared ‘pool’ of various lanterns which are allocated according to production demands at the time, please call to discuss requirements.
Please note that our FOH bridge consists of a fixed general single colour wash covering downstage and midstage. This is split into 5 areas down, 5 mid using two lanterns per area. We are happy to re-patch / re-focus, but prefer to make the minimum of adjustments due to time constraints on Get-in day. Further information can be seen on our plans.
Profiles 22 Strand SL 19 degree (permanent cover on front of house bridge) 10 Prelude 16/30 8 Patt 23 10 Strand SL 15/32 4 Selecon Pacific with choice of zoom lenses (45/75deg or 12/28) 2 Strand SL 23/50
Fresnels 12 Strand 743 6 Strand Patt 123 6 Selecon 1200w HPF
Pars 20 Par 64 12 IP68 LED Parcans RGBW (4-in1 - 24x10W)
Desk & Control– Allocated depending on season allocation across our spaces. 1 ETC ION XE20 1 ETC ION Classic with 1024 outputs 1 ETC Nomad laptop with 1024 outputs
1 ETC Express 48 subs 96 chan
Lighting Effects/Accessories We have a good range of FX units, DMX LED tape drivers Scrollers, strobes, hazers, smoke machines, and Fx wheels etc which are shared between our 3 performance venues. Please call us with specific requirements as soon as possible.
Sound Equipment Overview
The Rake Theatre has two sets of Speaker outlets SL & SR. There is also a speaker outlet upstage near the get-in & also two outlets which feed outlets in the grid. There is an outlet on each proscenium wall, feeding the main FOH L&R Main playback speakers for the Rake comprise EMS Audio 81X & S12 Subs.
Playback for home produced shows is usually via a Mac mini or macbook & Qlab (v 3 or 4). This system is available for visiting companies. In addition to Qlab we have minidisc/CD options.
There are 5 microphone tie-lines to the stage and 3 mic tie-lines in the grid.
Equipment includes: 1 Mac Mini rack with Qlab4 Pri Audio License 1 Macbook Pro with Qlab4 Pro Audio & Qlab 3 Pro Audio + Video 1 Spirit 324 digital Mixing desk 32-4-2 with internal FX 1 Denon DN-C630 CD Player with autopause & hot start
2 QSC RMX 1450 / EV P1200 amplifiers, patchable feeding up to two speaker outlets at grid level, two outlets SL, two SR one at the dock/get-in entrance and Proscenium L&R.
We have a good range of PA cabs, monitors, microphones, radio mics, stands & FX units, which are shared between our 3 performance venues. Please call us with specific requirements as soon as possible. Details of these can be found on our PA & Events Tech Spec.
Brent Lees – Technical Facilities Manager blees@dukes-lancaster.org
John Maudsley – Deputy Technician jmaudsley@dukes-lancaster.org
Technical Office 01524 598518 This Spec updated: January 2020