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Boom Box

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Topic: Boom Box

Posted By: chel
Subject: Boom Box
Date Posted: 3/20/09 at 5:45pm

My stage manager is researching this as well, but I wanted to check here.

We have a very small budget for our production of George Orwell's "1984". $500 needs to cover everything.

There is no sound system in our theater, just great accoustics.

I would like to have the voice of Big Brother and possibly Goldstein pre-recorded for each performance. There are a few sound effects (trumpets blaring, rats, crowd cheering, doorbell that can be obtained easily enough), and the voice of the Loudspeaker that I would like to be "live" rather than prerecorded.

Between that and scene change music, how can I go about doing this as cheaply as possible? Other productions have used a simple boom box there. So can a boom box be used with a microphone and sound appropriate for the loudspeaker's voice? If we use several boxes would that work? Other recommendations?

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chel

www.windhamtheaterguild.org

Replies:

Posted By: ddave
Date Posted: 3/25/09 at 9:47pm

Very important information to be able to suggest anything:

Size of space & how many seats.

Posted By: TimmyP1955
Date Posted: 1/02/10 at 3:21pm

I can't imagine a boom box being able to handle the dynamic range of uncompressed speech without distorting. A small mixer and a small powered loudspeaker (Mackie 300 or the like) would be in order as a minimum I think.