Lights and Sound: "Dearly Departed" audio question

Print Page | Close Window

"Dearly Departed" audio question

Printed From: Community Theater Green Room
Category: Producing Theater
Forum Name: Lights and Sound
Forum Discription: Technical discussion
URL: http://www.communitytheater.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3273
Printed Date: 5/03/24 at 9:12am
Software Version: Web Wiz Forums 8.05 - http://www.webwizforums.com

Topic: "Dearly Departed" audio question

Posted By: jayzehr
Subject: "Dearly Departed" audio question
Date Posted: 7/02/08 at 12:24pm

For anyone who has done this show--How did you handle the offstage organ during the funeral scenes?

Replies:

Posted By: GoldCanyonLady
Date Posted: 7/02/08 at 12:51pm

I haven't done that show, but I would use taped organ music and play it back stage using some sort of amplification. When we want sound to be like the real thing (toilet flushing, telephone ring etc) we do just that through our laptop and use old PC woofer and speakers etc to broadcast it back stage. The sound comes through nicely and that way it sounds like it is coming from the right place.
Barb

-------------
Barb Hofmeister,
MountainBrook Village Players, Gold Canyon, Arizona.

Posted By: jayzehr
Date Posted: 7/02/08 at 2:21pm

I was hoping to do that. The problem I'm seeing is that there are changes in the music that are contingent on lines of dialogue and I'm not quite sure how to work that.

Posted By: MartyW
Date Posted: 7/02/08 at 3:07pm

We taped it in sequence and timed with a run of the lines.. then the lines needed to time to (ahead) of the music.

-------------
Marty W

"Till next we trod the boards.."

Posted By: GoldCanyonLady
Date Posted: 7/03/08 at 10:20am

Our sound effects person sits at the computer behind the flats and listens and hits the play button at the right time. We have used this for all of our sound effects and some have been complicated. Works just fine.

-------------
Barb Hofmeister,
MountainBrook Village Players, Gold Canyon, Arizona.

Posted By: Mr. Lowell
Date Posted: 7/03/08 at 11:52am

We had a girl upstage playing an electric piano that was set to "organ" mode. She appeared as a very elderly lady and got some good laughs.

-------------
Mr. Lowell,
Lighting/Set Designer & Tech Director,
for the Linda Sloan Theatre,
in the Davison Center for the Arts,
at Greensboro Day School

Posted By: JoeMc
Date Posted: 7/04/08 at 6:03am

I don't know the show, but when ever we have had dialogue, that is inter dispersed thru a piece of music &/or song. We have just pburnt it on a CD, with each cue separated on the tracks. One that comes to mind had a t least 25 music pieces, some of less than a bar, through a section of dialogue. The audio bod just hit the next track button when the cue come up. Worked great!

-------------
[western] Gondawandaland
"Hear the light & see the sound!
TOI TOI CHOOKAS
{may you always play to a full house!}

Posted By: Kathy S
Date Posted: 7/21/08 at 2:58am

We had our "Veda" play an electric keyboard backstage. It worked great. She also was one of the Joy of Life Singers and played the accordian for that scene.