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====== Turner Sims (Building 52) ======

The [[https://www.turnersims.co.uk|Turner Sims]] is a concert hall in Campus where Jazzmanix concerts Pure Dance are held. It is designed for acoustic concerts and has little installed for technical shows.

[[https://stagesoc.org.uk/gallery/?catId=188|This folder]] contains a plan of the installed rig, a Chamsys show file for controlling the installed lighting rig (universe 2) and house lights (universe 3), and various CAD files.

The venue has 4 installed lighting bars: stage left and right on the sides of the stage (against the wall) and level with the front, and two bars against the back wall (one on each side). All the bars are approximately 4m above the stage. In the roof structure above the audience there are 6 PCs which cannot be accessed. The installed dimmers have 24 channels in total and have DMX points in the lighting booth and the House Right disabled area. The DMX install is the wrong gender so a 5-pin male-male bender is required (Turner Sims owns one, it's grey and lives connected to the house desk). The dimmers are susceptible to crashing and can only be reset by E&F as they are in a locked plant room. The house LX stock is mainly PAR64 lights with a few other generic fixtures. The in-house desk is an LSC Atom 12.

The house lights are a new install of DMX controllable LEDs. These are controlled by panels located USL, in the LX box or by DMX input to a box in back of the LX booth. There is a small hole between the LX booth and FOH for running cables.

There is a working light over the centre of the stage controlled by a switch behind the stage door.

The venue has rather limited power available. In the centre of the back wall (next to the organ) there is a distribution panel. It can provide a 32A feed or a 63A three-phase feed. The master breaker (grey MEM breaker) for both supplies is not designed to be switched under load. 13A sockets are available on the auditorium back wall, with 6 by the sound position and a single 13A to the house right side of each of the audience entrance doors. There are also 13A sockets under wooden floor panels in the stage floor; a 2-gang 13A socket is located with the main power outlets, and one 2-gang socket is located in the middle of the walls stage right and stage left (behind the row of seats).

The sound install is minimal and requires a PA to be brought in for the events that we run. There are two loudspeakers mounted on the walls wither side of the stage, level with the front, at 10ft from the stage level. These loudspeakers only reproduce the very high end and have no bass at all; they terminate on jacks or bare ends on the floor underneath them. There are no installed amplifiers. If the D&B rig is used there is a set of C4 Props in the annex for propping the C4 tops to get better coverage of the raked seating. There is no useful installed XLR. The sound position is typically the middle of the back row of seats, a piece of deck is kept in the lighting booth for this (there are even specially cut legs for the different levels of seating).

On stage there are 2 grand pianos and one harpsichord. As a general rule do not move these without asking. They are very expensive and Turner Sims would rather you don't. To get equipment onto the stage there is a goods lift around the side of the building with SWL 1 tonne. The bottom is level with the stage. The only double-door access to the instrument store for the Turner Sims and Musical Societies is through this lift. An important thing to note is that the fire escape route for part of the audience is across the stage and out of the backstage fire door, and this cannot be blocked.