dBS have just completed a sellout week of Disney’s High School Musical at the Brindley Arts Centre in Runcorn for CODYS productions. The show after over five months of rehearsals played to full houses every night and has even added an additional show later this week at the Parr Hall in Warrington. dBS supplied both sound and lighting equipment for the shows designers Graeme Ramsdale and dBS’s Chris Bogg.
Lighting equipment included Futurelight mh660s and 640s, ETC source four profiles, Martin and Le Matire effects equipment complimenting the house stock of around 90 generic lamps. Programming and operation was undertaken by Chris on a Chamsys Magic Q system and distributed on Artnet.
Audio was designed by Graeme Ramsdale and included a Protools system for playback of the Disney orchestra, voiceovers and effects plus a Yamaha LS9-32 for mixing the show on. Graeme added a hybrid speaker system consisting of Community SLS 920s and Ohm moon subs and BR6 front fills to compliment the existing Martin audio system. “Adding more flexibility was the key to the design” says Ramsdale. “with the show now moving to the larger Parr Hall we needed to ensure consistency within the system. Adding to the house system allows us to control and distribute the sound much more effectively. Radio mics, supervised by Rob Whitworth where sennheiser evolution 500s with MKE2 capsules and IMG boom mic systems. More ohm TRS112s where utilized on stage for fold back for the 70 strong cast.