Comments on: All in a Days Work http://barking.roaddog.com/2006/04/25/all-in-a-days-work.html Damage done from nearly three decades in the roadie biz Mon, 30 Jan 2012 06:25:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Juan http://barking.roaddog.com/2006/04/25/all-in-a-days-work.html/comment-page-1#comment-239 Juan Thu, 27 Apr 2006 03:28:38 +0000 http://barking.roaddog.com/?p=241#comment-239 Don't know where you are at but I was at the Venetian a while back and was impressed to have the house guy find me at load in to find out what I had for RF. He advised me what the house frequencies were and allocated particular frequencies off his master list. Worked out well for me. As far as rigging I had the house riggers dead hang a distributed UPA rig so I did not deal with any hoists. Juan Turro Don’t know where you are at but I was at the Venetian a while back and was impressed to have the house guy find me at load in to find out what I had for RF. He advised me what the house frequencies were and allocated particular frequencies off his master list. Worked out well for me.

As far as rigging I had the house riggers dead hang a distributed UPA rig so I did not deal with any hoists.

Juan Turro

]]> By: Mac Kerr http://barking.roaddog.com/2006/04/25/all-in-a-days-work.html/comment-page-1#comment-238 Mac Kerr Wed, 26 Apr 2006 16:13:52 +0000 http://barking.roaddog.com/?p=241#comment-238 "House AV rule, we can't run our own hoists or attach our shit to our own grids. The local hands are from a local (well, national) labor company and are quite good> The sparky and riggers are from the hotel AV company who to me seem two steps removed from high school AV washouts." Are you at the Venetian? :-) That seems to be the deal there, you need a show TD that really stays on top of the house riggers. They can also be dead slow. Fortunately I can usually find something else for my guys to do while we wait for rigging to get around to our points. By the time we get our motors, everything is waiting below them with a shackle lookin' for a hook. It really kills me when we want to fly the cable, and suddenly, because that job sucks, it's OK for soundmen to be riggers. :-) Mac “House AV rule, we can’t run our own hoists or attach our shit to our own grids. The local hands are from a local (well, national) labor company and are quite good> The sparky and riggers are from the hotel AV company who to me seem two steps removed from high school AV washouts.”

Are you at the Venetian? :-) That seems to be the deal there, you need a show TD that really stays on top of the house riggers. They can also be dead slow. Fortunately I can usually find something else for my guys to do while we wait for rigging to get around to our points. By the time we get our motors, everything is waiting below them with a shackle lookin’ for a hook. It really kills me when we want to fly the cable, and suddenly, because that job sucks, it’s OK for soundmen to be riggers. :-)

Mac

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