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Control Room A overlooks the main auditorium of the theater. It features a vintage 36 input Trident 75 Series 24 buss console. All class A preamps. RADAR 24 Hard Disk Recorder, Alesis 24 track HD-24 recorder. Dynaudio BM-15A nearfield monitors and JBL soffit mounted big room monitors. The control room is mechanically and acoustically isolated with approx 600 square feet in a 1930's Art Deco interior. There is a large producer's area with couches and two workstation areas. There is a 12'x15' ISO room with a Young Chang baby grand piano, a guitar amp ISO room and a 9'x10' vocal booth, all with 3/4" thick "bullet-proof glass" windows overlooking the auditorium.
There is a lounge area next to the control room. This control room ties into the main orchestra room/auditorium. It is a 36'x75' bare brick walled "live" room with 30' ceilings. It can facilitate "old school" recording with all musicians in the same room using baffles and physical placement.
There is an additional 24'x16' stage at the rear of this room for live performances.
Eventually backstage will feature a commercial kitchen, upstairs artist dressing rooms, and a full prop/production workshop.
Coming soon is Studio B is right below Control Room A, with a Trident 16 broadcast console. 12 mono channels and 12 stereo modules. This room is in the origional projector room of the theater. It has 1 foot thick concrete walls, floor and ceiling. This room is called "The Vault." It also has an identical HD-24 recorder plus Quested F-11 monitors with Velodyne sub. This room is set up for vocal overdubs, guitar overdubs, radio production, MIDI pre-production, sound effects editing, and offline editing. There will be a small kitchenette and break area leading to this room.
Above Control Room A is the second projector room. It too has solid concrete walls, floors and ceilings. This room houses two 1928 Super Simplex 35mm film projectors. They will be restored and kept as show pieces. Also, the origional sound system with 2 big Western Electric mono tube power amps, and two Western Electric tube pre-amps. The business office will also occupy part of this projector room.
The building also serves as a sound stage for film and video productions with solid black floors, and black drapes for all walls and 3-phase power. The ISO rooms upstairs can double as video control rooms for television and video productions.
Eventually we will offer a full in-house lighting and grip package.
Catering is available from the bistro two doors down from the theater. Also, Subway and the Petit Paris Cafe are 4 doors down. There is a bed and breakfast on the same block near the Evangeline Oak.
The main hall will be available for events such as private parties, receptions, dances, recitals, luncheons, trade shows.... etc.... Each part of the facility can operate independantly regardless of other productions or events going on.
There is wireless high speed internet throughout the building. Computer workstations with internet in each control room. Photo copier in the office. Multi-line phone system and fax services available. There is be an on-call electronics tech/instrument tech, with work areas for equipment repair.
The main entrance and lobby will feature a mini refreshment bar, lounging area and play host as a small art gallery. The upstairs studio control rooms are accessable via a seperate street entrance and stairway.Also, our television/film studio is available. In house we have 48k of PAR lighting on remote lift trussing. Also, cyc lighting, elipsoids, fresnels, and HMI lighting is available.
We have a self contained carpentry/art department shop with a full array of supplies & expendables, including speed rail, plywood, art card, foam core & various grip equipment.
Side street parking is available for grip trucks, production trucks & generators, within 25 feet of our rear doors. Catering is available in the immediate area of the theater.
CONTACT INFO:
Terry Dupuy- Owner, Engineer & Producer...
Bonne Terre Musique, LLC
d/b/a Teche Theater Music Hall & Recording Studio
138 South Main Street
Saint Martinville, Louisiana 70582
Toll Free: 877-565-1797
[email protected]
http://www.techetheater.com
2007 Grammy Nominated Recording Engineer.
Member: National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences (The Grammys)
Member: Saint Martinville Chamber of Commerce
Member: Audio Engineering Society
I STILL MIX OUTSIDE THE BOX
EQUIPMENT:
Trident 75 Series 40 input 24 buss console
Trident 16 Console (75 Series channels)
2 Alesis HD-24 Twenty four tracks
IZ RADAR 24 Classic with DVD backup, TDIF & Lightpipe outputs.
RADAR Network Control system: allows full control of the RADAR from anywhere in the building.
MOTU 2408 Mk III PCI-Audio Interface/Conversion Box
EDIROL R-4 96 KHz, 24-bit Master Recorder
Dynaudio BM-15A monitors
Quested F-11 monitors
JBL PRX 500 Active Room Monitors (Vertec drivers, Crown amps)
dbx Studio Drive Rack speaker management system
Velodyne powered sub
Universal Audio LA 610 Tube mic pre/optical compressor
Manley El-Op Stereo Tube Limiter
Electro-Harmonix NY-2A stereo valve compressor/limiter.
(Think of it as a updated stereo version of the LA-2)
TL Audio 4 channel Class A Valve Pre-amp.
SSL X-Logic Alpha Channel Mic Pre-amp
"StudioMixer" lunchbox (Vintage 1970's Class-A pre/eq
OZ Q-Mix with 8 pr. Sony 7506 cans. Allen Heath GL-3300 for cue mixes
Yamaha REV-7
Yamaha SPX-990
TC Electronics M-1
Lexicon MX-200 r
TC Electronics M-2000
2 JBL/UREI Stereo Compressors
Custom Built AMD Dual Core 64 bit Workstation.
(4 gig RAM, dual flat panel monitors, T.C. PowerCore DSP, DVD backup--
MS XP-Pro Nuendo 3.1 Playback via MOTU/RADAR into Trident for Summing.
Mac Mini-- Garage Band
Windows Server 2003 Domain Controller/Central File Server/Media Management
MICS:
Neumann TLM 103
(3) Sennheiser MD 421
(4) Audix Micro-D cardioid condensers
(2) Cascade Fat Head Ribbons
Cascade "Victor" 77DX Re-Issue ribbon.
(2) AT 37r small condensers
(4) Shure SM-57's
(8) Shure SM-58's
Shure Beta 56
(2) Oktavia MK-012 w/ uni & omni capsules
Oktavia MKL-2500 tube condenser
(2) Oktavia MK-219
Rode NT-1 l
AKG C-414
Shure Beta-52
AKG D-112
Sennheiser MKH-416 Hyper-Cardioid
INSTRUMENTS:
Young Chang 5' Baby Grand
1964 Hammond B-3 Organ with Leslie 147
9 Piece Yamaha Maple Custom Drum Kit (22" and 18" bass drums)
Over 25 Cymbals (Zildjian, Paiste, Sabian, K, )
1977 Marshall JMP 50
Fender Twin Reverb
Taylor 810 Acoustic
Fender Rhodes 73 MK I
Yamaha Power V 5pc. drum kit
Kurzweil K-1000 Keyboard & K-1200 Module
Yamaha, Moog, Sequential and Alesis synths/keyboards.
Various percussion.
