Yea, another gripe about the railings... You're sick of it, but I'll get past this soon I hope...
So I dropped the speaker in the post in the wonderful world of AutoCAD... I live and die by that program, because quite honestly, we don't have a lot of space in the shop, and we sure don't have time to experiment on the shop floor until we get it right... So I draw everything first... So when I dropped the speaker in to the post in CAD, I noticed that the post was too small... I noticed it was too small because unlike the designer, I drew the speaker cord connection sticking out the back of the speaker where it will be in reality... So I made the post bigger in CAD, and reported the situation to the designer, and the technical producer... The designer doesn't care about sound in the posts, but its his set, and the technical producer seems married to the idea of sound in the posts... Whatever...
At any rate, the posts would look terrible if they are big enough to hold the speaker properly... So there are a few options... Kill the speaker in the post idea... Get smaller speakers... Get a right angle connection for the cord... Basic, sensible ideas, no?... And yet, it was the fourth unforeseen option that I am stuck with at the moment... That would be the righteous denial of problem option... That option involves building the post the designed size, and taking the speaker cord connection apart so the wires are just hanging there with no support...
So I will build the prototypes, and they will love them, and I will have to build 75 posts that are going to cause issues once I get to Florida... The sound department will end up chasing bad connections endlessly as the railing get leaned on, and the decking flexes under the speaker... It will most likely become so annoying that they will simply take the speakers out of the posts, and sit them on the floor under the railings, ignoring their proper placement in the posts... I can only dream it sucks so much for the technical producer and the sound department since they are the ones driving this insanity...
Posted by Backstage at November 17, 2005 06:59 PM | TrackBack