Out With The Old, In With The New
High School Auditorium receives a face lift…
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September 18, 2015
It’s out with the old and in with the new here at the Alden High School auditorium. Matt Masci, Technology Integrator and Technical Director at the school has been working hard to improve the overall quality of productions as well as the equipment behind them all. The school has been in need of new equipment in the auditorium for some time. The school has been making due with the equipment for productions quite well until now. Now. they have almost endless possibilities due to the upgrades. The Auditorium has recently been upgraded with new Crown amplifiers to power the sound system. As another upgrade to the sound system here at Alden, a new Behringer X32 Digital soundboard with more capabilities has been installed. Once the sound system was updated, another sound improvement was made. The High School clubs and Middle School clubs utilizing wireless microphones chipped in to purchase ten new wireless microphones for their productions.
Alden High School has also greatly improved the lighting system with highly efficient LED lighting and lighting capabilities. The old auditorium stage lighting has been taken down and surplused. There are twenty new Chauvet LED Pro lighting strips in the aud as well. These new lights are brighter, lighter, and much more energy efficient than the old standard bulb fixtures. These lights are far more capable than the old lights. Also, the lighting console has been upgraded. These new upgrades will make the lighting both accessible and far more capable. I talked to a few people that are part of the productions here, including stag crew and actors. Many people were extremely exited for the new equipment. They say that there exited to do all the many productions here.
A major reason for these progressive upgrades is because of the traffic in the venue. The Wilson R. Conrad Memorial Auditorium at Alden High School holds more than just Plays and Musicals. The auditorium holds more than fifty events a year not including summer programs for a variety of groups across the district and community. Now not just the school, but also the whole community has a better auditorium for all events that may be held.
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Dustin Adamski • Mar 13, 2017 at 9:56 am
I think that it was a really good idea to to give the students new sound board and such to give the students the best of the best.
Mr. Turton • Oct 26, 2015 at 9:12 am
The ACS musical and theater productions are such an amazing display of student talent and advisor dedication. Keep up the great work!!
Joshua Lewandowski • Oct 19, 2015 at 1:27 pm
This new equipment will make all future plays, musicals and events that take place in the auditorium even more enjoyable to watch. The school and community should all be really happy about these changes.
Blake Richardson • Oct 19, 2015 at 11:43 am
I think that this is awesome! Having new equipment for Alden is amazing! The new addition’s will be cool to have for up coming events. That is exciting!
Dylan Colosanti • Sep 23, 2015 at 1:57 pm
That’s great! It seems the school needed this new equipment and we got it, that’s rare! That makes me really exited about Alden and were its heading, especially the theater and how many new people are joining. This is good for them and how Alden looks. This will make our productions look and be even better. Thanks for letting me know.
chris dombrowski • Sep 23, 2015 at 11:39 am
I think it is cool that are school is adding a new soundboard and adding new lights and equipment to the auditorium. The new addition’s will be cool to have for up coming events.
Jill Peruzzi • Sep 23, 2015 at 9:14 am
I am excited to see how the plays and musicals will turn out with all of this new equipment! Hopefully the audio for the talent show will be a big improvement from last year as well.