http://www.nottinghamtec.co.uk News RSS feed Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:53:00 +0100http://www.nottinghamtec.co.ukSummer Party 2009 <br>‘Summer Party’ at Nottingham University is the largest and most successful student-only festival in the country! (According to Radio 1 anyway) What most people don’t realise is that it’s entirely run by students and even all the technical equipment and expertise is provided by students too! <br> <br>TEC provided sound, lighting, staging, power distribution, site lighting and even the mud beating vehicles required at Summer Party 2009. <br> <br>The festival consisted of 7 venues including a large articulated lorry mounted main stage, 4 enormous big tops and numerous marquees. The festival featured artists ranging from unsigned student bands to international touring artists such as Lady Hawk, The Futureheads, Pendulum and even ‘Petebox’ a local beat boxer who always entertains the crowds successfully! <br> <br>The festival takes place within the university of Nottingham campus and caters for around 10,000 students just for one day. Unfortunately this year, the weather was not on our side as it rained torrentially for 3 days up until the festival began, fortunately it was dry for the actual event but then as Lady Hawke sang her last note, the heavens opened and the rain started again! <br> <br>Since the festival is in a densely populated area of Nottingham, noise limits were a major concern. To combat this, we chose to use line array for the main stage front of house PA. We chose a Nexo GeoT system with Cardioid CD-18 subs which provided extremely high quality sound evenly across the entire audience whilst minimising noise spill. TEC provided engineers with a Yamaha M7CL48, a Midas XL3 and an LS9-32 for mixing Front of House. Monitor mixing was achieved with a Soundcraft SM12 plugged into a set of 10 handed pairs of PS15 monitor wedges. The lighting rig, run off a pearl expert, consisted of Robe 1200 spots and washes along with Atomic strobes, PixelLine and a Glaciator heavy fog machine. <br> <br> <br>The 4 dance tents made use of Nexo Alpha or Alpha-E stacks for front of house PA and used lighting fixtures such as High End Technobeams, Clay Paky Alpha Spot 575s, Martin Mac 250s, Mac 500s and Mac 600s, Atomics, Wizards, PixelLine and more. <br> <br>Due to the bad weather the daytime events, “Intros Stage” and “Societies Stage” were moved into 2 of the dance tents that didn’t otherwise open until the evening. The intros stage made use of a Yamaha LS9-32 for mixing front of house and monitors and used Alpha-E PA stacks and PS-10 monitors. <br> <br>Overall, the event was on overwhelming success. The artists, promoters and event organisers were all very happy with the service TEC provided and we look forward to doing it again next year!Sat, 19 Jun 2010 10:01:00 +0100http://www.nottinghamtec.co.ukTEC have just replaced their litec trussing system with Prolyte's H30V truss and MPT towers. This new system is a major upgrade allowing TEC to not only increase the height of and weight loadings of their ground supported structures, but also allows for more adventurous and interesting truss designs then were previously possible. <br> <br>For the first time, TEC now own single phase motor system. These are primarily for use with the MPT towers but are also ideal for flying truss structures.Sun, 27 Jun 2010 13:36:00 +0100http://www.nottinghamtec.co.ukTEC successfully completes the Summer fortnight of Madness during June. <br> <br>This period sees Summer Party, Graduation Ball, Hu-stu summer party and a whole load of smaller events take place. All we broke was a single Alpha B-1. Mental! <br>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 09:19:00 +0100http://www.nottinghamtec.co.ukWow! Mini-me stole our pizza! <br>To cap off a hectic Week One, TEC yesterday completed one of our biggest single venue rigs in memory. The Nottingham Ice Arena was transformed into a festival style venue for 3,500 freshers to enjoy their Week One Finale. Using nothing but TEC's volunteer power, we worked from 6am Sunday (after weeks of planning and preparation) and the rig was in and running on time. The Frontiers, Professor Green, Greg James, The Saturdays, and Huw Stevens rocked the Ice Arena through Nexo Geo-S line array PA with S2 and B1-18 subs, lit by over 50 moving light fixtures and 18 Martin Atomic strobes. Great gig! Thankyou to Sound of Music, DSS, Panda, BRM, and Hawthorn. <br>And yes. Verne Troyer nicked our pizza!Thu, 18 Nov 2010 21:46:00 +0000http://www.nottinghamtec.co.ukTEC have started their training syllabus for 2010. Lots of new members came. If you are interested, dont hesitate to ping us an email, or drop into the office at any point!Sun, 28 Aug 2011 09:52:00 +0100http://www.nottinghamtec.co.ukTEC are currently running stage 2 at Greenbelt festival - a 3 day weekend of music and entertainment. A full blown lighting rig and P.A setup crammed into the underground venue at Cheltenham racecourse!Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:29:00 +0100http://www.nottinghamtec.co.ukTEC are once again doing the Freshers Week at Nottingham University! Events include the freshers address, the freshers fair, the marquee silent disco and the various nights in with JCR's. On top of all of this, there is the ever popular Week One Finale, with acts including Pendulum, Modestep and Tinchy Strider!Sat, 28 Jan 2012 10:15:00 +0000http://www.nottinghamtec.co.ukTEC is starting the new year with a roller disco rig at Sutton Bonington campus! Planning a similar event? Let us know and we can help to make it a great one! Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:24:00 +0000http://www.nottinghamtec.co.ukThis weekend TEC has provided a large sound and lighting rig in the EMCC for the annual Vet Ball and technical services for the Vietnamese Society New Year Show.Tue, 17 Apr 2012 07:56:00 +0100http://www.nottinghamtec.co.ukTEC has started rigging for the National Student Television Association (NaSTA) Awards Ceremony to be held in the old Carlton TV Studio 7. <br>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 22:42:00 +0100http://www.nottinghamtec.co.ukLast week TEC helped the National Student Television Association awards be such a success by building a large lighting rig and 25kW of sound in Studio 7 at Kings Meadow Campus. All of it was broadcast live over the internet.