The photo shows the roof of this building and the hands of the cameraman are visible.

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      1 year ago

      This.

      Adding to that: In concert halls or club venues it’s called the same, it’s not only a festival thing.

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        In theater it’s sometimes called the ‘Bio Box’. However, in theatre it is often tucked away right up the top, and is called 'The Gods '.

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        Seems to me, from watching a Dave rat video or two, a good sound engineer can make it sound good everywhere

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          Depends on the acoustics of venue. Sometimes it’s just not possible, especially if there are any hard flat walls. IMO a good sound engineer will leave the booth and walk around and make adjustments to balance the sound as best as possible for all the different spots in the audience.

          If in doubt, stand somewhere near the center middle where the big speakers cross. That will have the best sound on average.

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            Okay… but the seats face the stage. So from an audience perspective, the Front of House is at the back of the house.

            Although I suppose it’s like Stage Right, these designations are made by people who spend most of their time in audience-free theaters (not empty because they’re filled with the people who work there).

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              It’s not so much about the audience perspective as it is the layout of the building. Just like backstage is the area behind the stage, other areas like behind the bar, or the storage areas, green rooms, offices, tech rooms, weird tunnels full of mysterious cables, etc are all collectively ‘back of house’.

              Like when you go to a big box store and they see if they’ve got something ‘out the back’, the back of house areas are those generally not seen by the public. The term front of house likely evolved as the opposite of this.

            • I’d say that’s the difference between the house (the whole building) and the hall (dk if this is the corect term) inside of the building. In a usual theater/opera house you’d have the main entrance in the front (of the building), then the audience room, and the stage/backstage at the back of the building. So the audience is usually facing the back of the house.

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    Take it from an actual stagehand, it’s front of house irregardless of venue. I’m sure there are different names but if you work in the industry, that’s front of house.

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    Front of house. The left and right portions of the stage from the crowd perspective are called house left and house right. Left and right portions of the stage perspective is stage left and stage right. The terms are used a lot when setting up lights and calibrating sound.

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      Might be regional. I work at festivals in the UK and it’s called the sound stage here.

      ETA - should also add, FOH means something else at UK festivals, it’s the non tech parts, so the catering are FOH, the bar is FOH, FOH staff cannot enter the soundstage.

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    We called it the PA. Back in the day when I was involved in organising and setting up parties and small concerts. (each about once a year). Not very accurate (looked it up just now) , but you might hear it referred to as such.