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A theatre technician from Broadway could be transported to Austin, Texas’ Lake Travis High School Performing Arts Center (LTPAC) and instantly feel right at home. Part of the Lake Travis Independent School District (LTISD), the school offers a Technical Theatre program on a par with those at virtually any major university, along with its own touring-class performing arts center to go with it. Students there learn on real-world technology platforms, including the DiGiCo Quantum7 and SD9 consoles in the school’s 1,500-seat Concert Hall, 250-seat Black Box Theater, and 275-seat Recital Hall. Now, the LTISD has gone one step further into cutting-edge theatre technology with this year’s addition of a KLANG:konductor, the most powerful and versatile immersive in-ear monitor mixing processor ever.
In the Concert Hall, the school had decided four years ago to move its pit orchestra out of the pit and into a completely separate room in the same building, but several hundred feet away from...

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