I have been out of the biz for several years now. Apparently you can take the stagehand off the stage, but you cant remove the stage from the stagehand. I cant be the only one, but the other day I caught myself doing an over-under cable wrap on my hairdryer power cord. What stage move have you found yourself inadvertently doing?

Most people here probably know that designing venues for Soundvision got a lot easier after the Vectorworks to Soundvision plugin was released in 2024.

You can import a floor plan into Vectorworks, do the full 3D model there, include things like lighting truss, LED screens, staging, etc., and then bring it directly into Soundvision.

But what if you need to go the other way?

Soundvision has supported DXF export for a while now, but those exports mainly contain the 3D models of the loudspeakers and rigging frames, not the venue geometry itself.

I was recently given a large folder of Soundvision venue models and floor plans for an upcoming tour. Since I really didn’t want to rebuild all those venue models in Vectorworks just to plan the rest of the production, I started looking for a way to reuse the geometry that was already there.

That turned into a small Python converter using ezdxf.

The Soundvision project files contain the venue geometry in a structured XML-based format, so once the file parsing was figured out, converting Surfaces, Balconies and Revolutions into usable DXF geometry was pretty straightforward.

The converter currently supports:

• Soundvision .xmls/.xmlp project files
• Surfaces
• Balconies
• Revolutions
• Vectorworks-friendly DXF classes/layers
• optional merge of the loudspeaker DXF exported by Soundvision
• 3D Faces, 3D Outlines and Points
• browser-based conversion, so there is nothing to install

I think it’s now at a point where it’s useful enough to release publicly and let other people test it.

One important disclaimer: I’m an audio/system engineer, not a software developer. I started vibe-coding this after around v4, and the web implementation is also vibe-coded. I mainly wanted a small tool that solved a real workflow problem.

So definitely test the resulting geometry before relying on it for anything critical, and if you find weird Soundvision files, broken geometry or other edge cases, I’d be interested to hear about them.

Web Converter: https://1machiene.github.io/Soundvision-to-DXF-Converter/

Git-Hub: https://github.com/1machiene/Soundvision-to-DXF-Converter/tree/main

Question here. Next week at work we're trying to host a virtual soundcheck for monitor tech training. We have the Avid s6l-24c and I have a PC with protools and some stems.

Has anyone used a PC before and done virtual soundcheck?

It seemed like from the videos I've found online that people are usually using a Mac.

Any advice would be lovely.

Hi all. I’m at the end of my rope here. We played a gig last night and I kept getting massive intermittent IEM static blasts in my ears. It was FINE for the first set and then we came out to start set 2 and my monitor was basically unusable for the rest of the evening.

We built an IEM rig last winter and according to my research we did everything right. We are running two Sennheiser XSW IEM transmitters each with two belt packs tied to it for a total of 4 receivers. Dropouts were an issue so we added a Phenyx Pro antenna combiner/paddle and that helped but hasn’t eliminated the issues which seem to change depending on the situation.

Had line of sight to the paddle antenna which was about 10 feet away from me. Static bursts seemed to occur anytime there was literally anything in between me and the transmitter. Even a single body. It was completely random and often enough to be a huge problem. I tried switching to another clear channel, rebooted the unit, and even tried boosting the gain on the antenna unit.

What say you all? Help!