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Production Guide
General Building Information

Capacity:  8,000 seats

Floor size:  220' x 120' 22,000 sq feet open floor space

Height:  60' ceiling height

Dressing rooms:  6 dressing/locker rooms

Presidential Suites:  2 Presidential suites available 3,150 sq. ft. used for dinning and small meetings

Power:  1800 amps of show power 208/120 three phase power

Pyrotechnics:  In-house indoor pyro may be used with a 14 day notice to campus fire marshal

Production:  The Mckay Events Center has the ability to produce most shows including: sound, lighting, staging, and video production.
 
 
Dimensions
 
Overall Building Area:  175,000 square feet 
 
Arena Area:  65,000 square feet
 
Exterior Dimensions:  220 feet x 330 feet x 60 feet high
 
Interior Clearance:  60' ceiling 48' low steel 42' clearance (speaker clusters): 28' clearance scoreboard
 
Maximum Floor Dimensions:  220' x 110'
 
Maximum Floor Area:  25,000 square feet
 
Presidential Level Area (North and South):  3,150 square feet each
 
East/West Area (each):  10,400 square feet
 
 
Loading Docks
 
Access to Event Floor, Door size: 14' high x 20' wide
 
Dock Depth:  50 feet
 
Portal Size:  13' high x 18' wide
 
Loading Ramp, Door Size:  10' high x 8' wide.  Height:  3' 7"
 
Vomitory Access Portal:  10' high x 10' wide
 
 
Truck/Bus Parking
 
# of Back Lot Spaces:  8 full length semi trucks and 4 busses
 
 
Elevators
 
Door Dimensions: 7' high x 5' wide x 9' 3" depth
 
Weight Capacity:  5500 pounds
 
 
Staging
 
Brand:  Stage Right
 
Deck Size:  4' x 8'
 
Maximum Stage Size:  40' x 60'
 
Height Range:  30" - 54" even numbers
 
# of Stair Units:  4
 
Fold and Rolls Size:  6' x 8'
 
Height:  16" or 22"
 
# of Stair Units:  2
 
 
Barricade
 
Bike Barricade:  50: 8' 1" x 3' 9"h
 
Tenser Barrier:   40: 8' 1" x 3' 3"h
 
 
Technical Services
 
450 Square Foot Production Booth
 
In-house Staffing for Events:  Lighting, Sound, Rigging, Pyrotechnics, and Stagehands
 
 
Rigging
 
Truss:  20 - 10' lengths
 
Outside Dimensions, Four Corner Blocks
 
8 coffing 1 ton chain motors with Skojnberg 8 channell controller
 
Rigging Hardware as needed
 
 
Show Power
 
LIghting:  400A 3 phase ( if house dimmers not used)
 
Sound:  200A 3 phase
 
Aux:  800A 3 phase
 
Dock Power:  200A 3 phase
 
Shore Power:  200A 3 phase
 
Other power available upon request
 
 
Lighting
 
Spots:  Lycian Superstar 1.2  (model 1275)
 
Dimmers:  96 2.4kw ETC sensor
 
Lighting Control:  ETC insight 2
 
LIghts:  ETC source 4           10o : 10
                                          19o : 40
                                          36o : 32
             
Altman PAR 64 48 (various lamps)
Altman Zip Strip 8 (8' 4 color)
Altman FarCyc 6 (4 color)
 
Pyrotechnics
 
In-house Pyrotechnics Equipment and Staff
 
Sample Effects:  Airburst, Concussion Mortar, Flashpot, Fireball, Fountain, and Rocket
 
 
House Audio
 
29 Clusters:  Altec Lansing 9894
 
26 Crest Amplifiers:  Total Power, 14,000 Watts
 
Distributed System Controlled by Crest NexSys 
 
 
Microphones
 
4 wireless (Handheld and Lavalier) Audio-Technica
 
4 Audio-Technica ATM 61-HE
 
2 Shure Beta 58
 
2 Shure Beta 57
 
1 Shure SM-48S with switch
 
2 Shure SM-91 Floor/Table mics
 
 
Sound Mix and Booth Equipment
 
Allen & Heath GL3 32x4x2 console
 
Denon dual cassette deck
 
Technics 5 disc CD changer
 
2- dbx 166A dual channel compressor
 
dbx 274 expander/gate (4 channel)
2- Yamaha GQ2015 2 channel 15 band graphic equalizer
 
Clear-Com Base Station (2 channel)
 
Crest NexSys System Control
 
 
Portable Sound Systems (2)
 
Spirit Folio 8 channel mixer
 
Dual Cassette Deck
 
5 disc CD Changer
 
Amplifier
 
 
Video Services
 
Barco 3100 LCD Projector
 
Screen 19' h x 25' w Da-Lite Rear Projection Screen with legs and flying frame
 
IMAG and other services available from Campus Media Services (801)863-8888
 
 
Dressing Rooms
 
Distance from stage: 60' to 150'
 
Size: 
2- 850 square feet
2- 550 square feet
2- 250 square feet

 

In-house Catering Available

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 Last Updated 10/1/04