Audio and Visual Capabilities
Media and Public Affairs Building
Jack Morton Auditorium

The MPA Building has a 260-seat auditorium with green room, make-up room, sound lock, control room and permanent installation of a state of the art rear-projection system. An ideal location for any event involving important personalities, issues, and the working media, the auditorium provides complete connectivity from the stage, control room, down to the very last seat with fiber lines running between the participants and Washington's Audio-Visual Operation Center. From there, broadcast and cable media can both transmit and receive signal, through Verizon's switcher. Any instant feed can be picked up from this location plus be uplinked to a satellite, webstreamed, or all this can happen in the reverse order as well.

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Lighting System
- (48) D20E, ETC Dual 20 amp dimmers with dimmer doubling capability.
- Express 24/48 Lighting Control Board.
- (94) 2.4k circuits.
- (18) Strand 6" Fresnels, 1k BTR
- (4) Arri 1k Fresnels
- (8) Arri 2k Fresnels
- (47) Source Four pars
- (46) Source Four ellipsoidals, 575w HPL
- (8) LE Mini-strips
- (4) Desisti Wyeth Softlights 3210 (2 x 1000w each)

Audio System
- Mackie SR 32/4/VLZpro Mixing Console
- (3) Aphex comp/limiter 320A
- (3) Rane ME60 1/3 octave stereo eq
- (2) Hafler P1500 amps
- (1) Hafler SR2000 amp
- (3) Celestion 1531 3-way speakers
- 70v ceiling speaker system

Audio Playback
- CDR, Tascam CD-RW5000
- Mini-disk, Tascam MD-301MKII
- Cassette, Tascam 112 MKII/LA 112

Mics
- (2) Shure wireless handheld UC 24/58
- (2) Shure wireless lavalier UC 14/84
- (4) Sony lavalier ECM-66
- (6) Shure SM58
- (2) Shure SM57
- (2) ElectroVoice ND457a
- (7) Boom mic stands

Video Playback
- Betacam SP PVW-2600
- VHS, Panasonic AG2560
- Sony DVD/CD/Video CD S560D
- Elmo Slide to video converter, TRV-35H
- PC/Laptop from Scan Converter, Extron VSC200 60-274-02
- VideoProjector: Digital Inc. Power 8gv 7500 ANSI lumens

There are six video camera positions in the auditorium, with tri-ax, video, and audio cables already run to an I/O panel at the loading dock. Video and audio jackfields located in the auditorium control room connect to a technology interface room, with send and receive fiber lines run to Washington's AVOC.

Portable System for Front of House/Return to stage
- 12 channel mixer Allan & Heath GL2200-412
- 8 channel automatic mixer Shure SCM 810
- Parametric Dual Channel EQ Klark Teknik DN410
- Two (2) Dual 1/3 octave EQ DBX 2231
- Two (2) Stereo power amplifiers QSC PLX-1602
- Four (4) 15 inch floor monitors Yamaha SM 15 IV
- Digital reverb Yamaha REV100

2121 Eye Street, NW
Suite 504
Washington, DC 20052
(202) 994-7129 phone
(202) 994-3622 fax
use@gwu.edu