Venue 1

Venue 1 is the main venue of the students union. It is designed to be a multipurpose venue, and as such can hold bops, theatre productions, Live TV sports screenings, boxing, and debates.

Location

The venue is on the ground floor of the union. It serves as home to the Beer Bar and Poison Bar, the Raised Seating Area and Seating Block, and the Stage.

Attached to the venue are the Ents Cupboard and Green Room, whilst the Projection Box looks out over the floor.

Lighting

Venue 1 has three main rigging areas: the Octagon, the Stage Rig and the LX Bars, numbered LX1, LX2 and LX3 as well as "Left" and "Right". At times, the spaceframe above the front of the octagon is used for rigging lights; this is referred to as LX2.5.

There are also 2 side projectors mounted on the octagon, pointing at screens above the speaker stacks on either side of stage, and a projector pointing at a roll-down screen which fills the entire proscenium arch. These are all linked to Entsputer, while the latter is also linked to a Freeview tuner.

Equipment-wise, the venue has

• Jands Dimmers
• Clay Paky Alpha Spot HPE 300s, Clay Paky Alpha Spot 300s and Clay Paky Alpha Washes
• Coemar ProSpot 250 LXs and Coemar Prowash 250 LXs
• ChromaQ Scrollers
• Parcans, Fresnels, Shoeboxes and Profiles

Sound

The FOH speaker stacks in the venue consist of (on each side)

• 2x Martin Audio W8C full-range
• 3x Martin Audio WSX sub

Total power handling is ~5.6kW AES @ 4 ohms, ~22.4kW peak @ 4 ohms.

The venue amp stack consists of

• Crest Audio VS900(?) (High Freq, W8C Compression Driver)
• C-Audio RA3001 (High-Mid Freq, W8C 6.5" horn)
• Crown (?) (Low-Mid Freq, WSX 12" horn)
• JBL MPX1200 (Low Freq, WSX 18" horn)