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Technical information - Ariel Centre, Totnes

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Click here to download a PDF file (504KB) showing the Ariel Centre seating layout and stage area dimensions. Although 328 seats are shown, the licensed capacity of the theatre is 326 for a fully seated audience, or 300 on the ground floor and 100 on the first floor balcony when the rake is retracted. Equipment list follows below images.
NB Any proposed use of 'smoke' machines or the like must be discussed with Ariel Centre technical staff.
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The full central rake,
desk position variable
Main audience
entrance bottom right
Two balcony rows
of soft bench seating
 
 
Furthest seats only
14 rows back
Flexible staging area
sight lines best with stage
Grand piano on floor  

Equipment list:

NB As of summer 2009 some equipment upgrades have taken place which are not yet listed below. Check with venue technical staff for latest status.

Lights

• 6 Cantata fresnel 1200w
• 4 Prelude fresnel 650w
• 2 Quartet fresnel 650w
• 4 Cantata profile spot 26/44 1200w
• 4 Prelude profile spot 16/30 650w
• 2 Quartet profile spot 15/25 650w
• 3 Coda flood 500w
• 10 Par 64 1000w
• 1 Floor par 56 1000w
• 2 Par 56 500w

Lighting control

• 24/48 Channel Zero 88 Fat Frog lighting desk
• 24 Channel Zero 88 Sirius analogue desk
• 4 Zero 88 6 channel lighting dimmers
• Zero 88 Dmux box

Flooring / Staging / Curtains

• 4 Rolls of black/ grey 10m x 1.5m dance floor
• A stage system which can be configured in a variety of ways
• A white Cyclorama to fill entire back wall
• Black curtains to fill back wall and boxed wings

Being a small venue we are limited in what we have when it comes to gobos, gobo holders, gel, gaffa tape etc. So any materials you can provide would be greatly appreciated.
When it comes to rigging it is worth noting that dimmer racks 1 and 2 supply plugs 1 to 48 and racks 3 and 4 supply plugs 49 to 86 (directly above the main stage area)

Sound Desks

• Allen & Heath Mix Wizard 3 16:2 desk
• Behringer Eurodesk SL2442FX- Pro 16:4:2 desk
• Spirit Folio 12:2 Desk

Front of house and monitors

• 2 Active RCF Art 310-A 10 inch (for FOH tops)
• 2 Active dB Opera Sub 15 (FOH Bins)
• 4 Active RCF Art 315-A 15 inch (for monitors)

Effects processing

• Behringer MDX 4600 4 channel compressor
• Yamaha SPX 1000 reverb unit
• Yamaha SPX 900 reverb unit
• 3 AB 231 Graphic equalizers (1 for FOH and the other 2 for monitors)

CD/ MD etc.

• 2 disk Sony CD player
• We can get hold of various MD players
• We can also get hold of a Tape deck

Leads and various other sound bits

• A 20m ‘snake’ with 4 sends and 16 returns
• A good supply of XLR leads
• Jack leads (we advise that you bring your own)
• We have a selection of DI boxes

Microphones

• 4 EV N/D 478 instrument mics
• 3 EV N/D 967 Concert vocal mics
• 2 Rode NTA-1 Condenser mics

We can get hold of a range of microphones from other sources, but again we would advise that you bring your own microphones wherever possible.

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