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Hello, and welcome to Narro! I'm the tech director here. I hope that we can both get along and that you can become a helpful part of our little family. If you have any final thoughts about whether or not you should join, please say them soon as we do not enjoy letting people who know the secrets of our operation walk free. Don't be scared, you'll love it here, and if you think you won't, then the exit is open.
With that out of the way, let's get right into it. Most new techies (as we like to call them) will start on micing or the spotlights. All actors should already have their mics installed in their vocal cords, so all you'll need to do is equip them with a battery pack. For these, first, make sure you check the mic list so that they get the correct letter. Insert the batteries into this slot on the back, and then sync the pack up to the mic by having an actor hold down the sync button and wait until the red light becomes green. Different actors, slightly depending on who they're playing, will want the pack in different places. For most women, you can just attach it to their bra strap, and for men, you can either wrap an ace bandage around them and clip it to that or just have them put it in their back pocket if they have one. Don't forget to remove the batteries before you put them away at the end of a show!
Next, the spotlights. Each one is operated in a slightly different way, but you should be able to figure them out pretty fast if you understand at least one. First, plug it into a wall outlet and flip the switch on the right side. Then, use these levers at the top to adjust the size, intensity (or how dim or bright it is), and whether the shutter is closed or opened. You'll notice that, on the side you'd be operating the spot from, there are two digital numbers you can adjust. These are essentially modifiers for the size and intensity levers. If you increase the number on the size one, for example, it will make it so that it goes from a radius of 1-25 cm to a radius of 26-50 cm, like so. Same with brightness. These will increase infinitely, however, we do not want you to blind our actors or the audience so please be careful. I would recommend keeping each between the range of 4-6 unless advised otherwise. If you shine your spotlight on one person and press this button on the left side, the spot will automatically follow the person and turn off when they go off stage and turn on again when they renter. This is cool but we rarely use it. Oh, and you can use these levers to change the color - this one only has six but some of the other spots have more. When you're operating a spot, make sure to stand on the platform it is raised upon. These are buoyant and generally resistant to any changes in the floor made during the production.
Now for the fun part - the booth. You won't be working up here until you have some good experience on your belt, and even then, only if we need a replacement. I'll show you the basics though. This is the soundboard, we call it Quincy. It controls the volume of all the mics using these dials, corresponding to each letter of the mics labeled accordingly. The volume can be shown here. We set a limit of 130 decibels, and you can't go higher than that unless you input the admin password, which only the stage manager, the director, and I know. There isn't much more you need to know about this since you shouldn't be operating it any time soon. Please refrain from using it unless someone is here who knows it thoroughly as a lot of things can go wrong if you don't know your stuff.
The lightboard is similar. It has a screen in the middle and multiple little levers and sliders all around it that do a bunch of fun stuff, but you only really need to know that this dial increases the brightness and these two sliders change the position of the light on an x-y axis. If you want to change where the light is shining from, press in this button and use those sliders again. To change which light you're using, just swipe on this screen. Each corresponds to a number. We technically have 48, but a bunch of them are broken - those are listed on this paper underneath the board.
This tower here controls all the lights. They won't show up if you don't have the breakers turned on - those are these black switches at the bottom. Each of these gray switches above those corresponds to the lights - always leave them on, only turn off the breakers. On the other side of the booth is the sound tower. When you need to use the soundboard, start by pressing this black button and all the buttons on these little boxes that are on top of it - these correspond to the mic packs and show their battery levels. The mics won't work if these aren't on. You may also notice a red button with a ton of ductape on it. Don't press this button. Seriously. We aren't absolutely sure what it does anymore but we do know it's ridiculously dangerous.
And that is the end of your orientation! This may have felt a bit bare-bones but you'll learn a lot more from other techies as you go along, and you'll learn about the boards if you ever get to the point where we want you to operate them. You already have the schedule for our next show, The Cool War. You don't have to come until a week before tech week. I'm looking forward to getting to know you better, see you at practice.
