Inchicore College of Further Education
 

Technical Theatre Equipment 

Sound Equipment 

At Inchicore College we are fortunate to have a wide range of industry standard equipment and resources available  to our students for their work in Sound Production and Sound  Design.  

The students receive training in Pro Tools as the industry standard software package as well as Q-Lab for the sequencing and coordination of sound cues during theatre productions.   

A comprehensive range of sound equipment including microphones, mixing desks, recording & playback devices, communication systems, FX machines, speakers, amplifiers, stands, various sound production devices, sound dedicated computers (Macintosh/Apple and PC) is available to the Technical Theatre Students: 

Computers & Software

Apple Mac Pro running Pro Tools 7.3 LE & Digidesign 002 audio interface
Q-Lab cueing software 

Mixing Desks

Yamaha O1V Digital mixing desk
Soundcraft Studio Spirit Studio LC 16:8:2 mixing desk
Allen & Heath WZ14:4:2 mixing desk 

Outboard

Akai 8 track digital recorder
Akai S2000 sampler
Minidisc recorders, record player, cassette recorder, CD player
Alesis Midiverb 4 effects unit
Alesis graphic equaliser
Behringer Feedback Destroyer
BBC sound effects library 

Microphones

Rode K2 valve microphones
AKG C1000s
Shure SM58s & SM57s
Shure SM89 Rifle Microphones
Sennheiser Radio Microphones 

Speakers & Amps & Headphones

Peavey
JBL
Yamaha
AKG 

Keyboards

Korg & Roland 

Lighting Equipment 

In the area of lighting we give the student experience of the wide range of lantern types and control systems that are use in Irish theatres. 

The control systems we have provide the students with the opportunity to learn and gain experience of industry standard computer programmable lighting control as well more basic lighting control which may exist in less well resourced performance centres such as colleges, community centres and smaller semi-professional venues around the country.  

Strand 520i lighting console
Strand GSX lighting console
Strand MX lighting console
Zero 88 Jester lighting console  

Generic lanterns available are 

  • Cantata fresnels

  • Prelude fresnels and profiles

  • Minuette fresnels and profiles

  • Brio profiles

  • SL profiles

  • Source 4 750w Zoom profiles

  • Thomas Par 64s

  • Par 36 pinspots & Par 16 ‘birdies’

  • Studio Redhead Kit

  • Studio 1K Fresnels

  • Variety of floods

Moving lights available are 

  • Mac 300  Moving Lights - Wash head

  • Mac 250+  Moving lights - Profile/Gobo