Re: X32 Discussion
Can I ask people's opinions on how they approach a scenario?
I've used Scenes since v1 to pre-program our show which finished yesterday, so I'm most familiar with those. I do know how snippets work - I have one to quickly mute all radio mics during rehearsals for example. And I know cues can contain scenes and snippets, if programmed from the start.
FYI I have each actors levels preset in libraries, which I recall to channels as I program the scenes. I have a "Blank" library preset which blacks the scribble strip and sets gain and fader to zero for unused channels in a scene.
However I had three similar issues which I didn't know how to quickly (and confidently) resolve on-the-fly / at short notice.
2 hours before curtain up on Wednesday, one of the main characters had to pull out through illness. The nature of the show meant three different people covered his roles at different times. Sometimes they were already on stage, sometimes extra.
I couldn't just say "wear Harry's mic" because they each had their own mics programmed in.
How do you approach this?
I could make a snippet for each 'stand-in' to recall their mic preset to a channel, but they aren't always on the same channel (40 actors, 23 mics, only 10 keep same mic permanently, rest swap around).
Even if they were on same channel, I don't think I can have that snippet recalled automatically because I've used scenes, not cues. If I'd used cues to recall my scenes, I could have added a snippet to the relevant cues.
The second scenario is two beltpacks got inadvertently swapped during last nights show. I reasonably swiftly worked out which, and fortunately both were on stage together in that song so not a huge problem. But in the following X32 scenes, one mic wasn't in use, so I had to manually recall the 'wrong' mic onto its channel and mute the 'right' channel - every time I changed scene until they could swap back offstage.
Other than temporarily safe-ing those channels from recall, any other suggestions?
Peter
