Speaker 1: Hey welcome to this edition of Man Cave Technology. I'm outside of a convention center and my buddy Randall who flew to town this week is here putting on sound and audio and stuff for a conference. So I thought this would be a cool time to kind of see what goes on behind the scenes of a conference. What kind of sound equipment's used, what the lighting and video and all of that entails. So let's go check it out. Well I just got in the convention center and had to show you this because it's a sign and it's having a problem. All right so we are going to get a behind the scenes look at how the sausage is made.

Speaker 2: So Randall why don't you tell us what's going on here. We are setting up for a conference. Our switcher and whatnot that we need to do stuff with here. Titus is over here working on some content, some audio and videos and powerpoint content

Speaker 1: things over here. What do you use? Do you use anything other than powerpoint to push audio?

Speaker 2: A program called Qlab. That's this gray box that Titus has here. Here we just have a standard allen and heath digital console. We have our microphones and whatnot. Does this have motorized

Speaker 1: faders? Yes. Can you please show us? Yes. And then over here is wireless land.

Speaker 2: We have Shure UHFR wireless system. Six channels with all the fixings that you would ever need in the drawers for said system. Very cool. Tell us about this very small lighting section. This is what I like to call the wee leprechaun. It is literally like only 12 channels of DMX and it just turned the lights on and off. We are going to take a look at a camera that's

Speaker 1: hopefully better than the one in my hand which looks like it's struggling with some of the

Speaker 2: darkness. With a 17x lens and a 2x extender. And how does this camera person know what to do? Uh they'll have an intercom system right here. Just you know regular old headset with the and then the director will tell them hey can you get me a shot of you know table two and we'll go over here and we'll get table two. And they would wear this thing that's down on the ground? Yeah actually. Or clip it to something. It clips up here I just haven't tightened it up. And then they just hit a button if they want to talk. These headsets if they will mute if you put them in the up position and then you pull them down. Oh nice. So you don't even have to mess with them. That's

Speaker 1: handy. Yeah. Until somebody leaves it in the down position. So the projector is this far from the screen and it works. Wow. I think I only saw something like this that was kind of for like a smart board or something but it was a much smaller scale. Right so this is an 8000 lumen

Speaker 2: projector and I just powered it up so it will take a minute. Nice. Wow that's cool.

Speaker 1: It looks derelict on the camera because the camera doesn't know what to do with it but in real life this looks really nice and it's just interesting that it's right down there on the

Speaker 2: floor. Right. That close. So sound reinforcement is ElectroVoice ETX series speakers and they're pretty much ElectroVoice's top of the line powered box right now. Cool. And since it's

Speaker 1: powered all you have to send it is literal power and then it's signal. Yeah XLR. So lighting wise

Speaker 2: we just have some five color LED uplight fixtures. There are red, green, blue, amber, white. Okay. This is them at white only. So you can get white the other ghetto way. Yeah. By putting all the colors together but it doesn't look right. Yeah. These are actual white LEDs. And then the amber helps you to make colors that are much more difficult. Yes. Standard EPC Source 4 Lecos. Okay. Very much a theatrical fixture. They have a four-way shutter and a lens. The lenses are interchangeable so that you can have a smaller circle. Right. From the distance that you need. And they just you know

Speaker 1: very much a HTL 575. And for something like this it looks like it's mostly just going to be people talking. So it really keeps your sound reinforcement. Doesn't have to be something

Speaker 2: crazy. Doesn't need to be anything crazy. The main reason is for like a Q&A mic. Yeah. Okay. So that someone can be there and talk and they can hear it. You'll put your videos and your tracks and things like that so that they can hear all that too. And then you have you know your standard

Speaker 1: style confidence monitor 40 inch flat screen. So about when that wall opens you're going to have about 4,000 people. Yeah. And then will you do everything with these speakers or are you doing a delay? Well we'll do delays but they'll be the same ones. Okay. So you'll have the same speakers

Speaker 2: back there on a delay. Speaker that is the furthest away from the audience would be this line. Okay. And that's your zero mark. Okay. And then you go and you move forward. So for example these front fills are delayed just enough time to where you want those waveforms to get to you at the same

Speaker 1: time. Makes sense. You don't want that one because that one would get to you later. This one would come first and then they clap. So you feed it that information actually on here. Yeah. Okay. Oh so

Speaker 2: these have a screen on. So you literally. You literally say let's say we want to delay this one. We can go down see I've told it which subwoofer I've associated with it. I have an EQ and I can

Speaker 3: delay and it's in milliseconds. Okay. You can change it to. Nice. And it's just right on the speaker. Just say delay one foot two foot. That's cool. 31 foot whatever. Nice. So there's a really

Speaker 1: cool story. And that is that I had this amp that I had as a young child. My family pitched in. Got it for me as a gift. And I used it with my keyboard. I used it with all kinds of stuff. And then I left it in Oklahoma accidentally. I don't even know how many years ago. Like 12 years ago or something. And this guy found it and he kept it. And then as a surprise he has brought it for me.

Speaker 2: And it showed up here on the other side of the country. Wow and there she is. Yes. I have many

Speaker 1: memories with this thing. And I haven't seen it in forever. And it's in good condition. And I like how somebody decided it didn't need that in there. Yes. I think that that was me at some point. But yes this. I used to lug this thing around and I just used it for everything. It was very handy. Well this is awesome. Thank you for bringing this. So I think that's going to wrap up our time and our tour. We had a really fun time hanging out. And it was fun to see all of that. And kind of see the setup and everything that he was up to. Hopefully someday I can get him where there's a massive lighting console. Because he is like a master of doing really cool stuff with lighting. And so I'm sure that we will have Randall back on here a little more in the future. So thanks for watching this edition of Man Cave Technology.