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

The MPA Building has a 244-seat auditorium with green room, make-up room, sound lock, control room and permanent installation of a state of the art high definition 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, Web streamed, 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
- (4) LE Mini-strips
- (4) Desisti Wyeth Softlights 3210 (2 x 1000w each)

Recording
Video
- Sony EVID70 Stationary Pan/Tilt/Zoom Color NTSC Video Camera
- Pioneer DVR-LX70 DVD/DVR Recorder with 500 GB Hard Drive

Audio
- Dedicated archival digital audio recording iMac 20" 2.66 SD 4GB 1066MHZ DDR3 SDRAM - 2X2GB 1TB serial ATA drive
- Digidesign Mbox 2 USB audio interface
- ProTools 8 digital recording software
- Seagate 1TB external hard drive for event audio archive

Audio System
Front Of House Console
- Allen & Heath GL 2400 24 channel mixing console - (1) 8 channel automatic mixer Shure SCM 810
- (1) Parametric Dual Channel EQ Klark Teknik DN410
- (2) Dual 1/3 octave EQ DBX 2231
- (1) Digital reverb Yamaha REV100
- (1) U.S. Audio Whirlwind Press Power 2 mult box with 16 line/mic switchable outputs

Control Room Console
- 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) Crown CTS 2000 amp
- (1) Hafler SR2000 amp
- (3) Celestion 1531 3-way speakers
- 70v ceiling speaker system