This is a Hybrid meeting. The Triple Door is located at 216 Union St, Seattle, WA 98101. 

Parking is at LAZ Parking – 2nd & Union Garage, 1400 2nd Ave. 

The closest light rail stop is Symphony Station, a 4 minute walk from the venue. Food is available nearby at Wild Ginger. 

Bottled water will be available, and cookies will be provided for Triple Door attendees.

Join us as we get a behind the scenes look at the Triple Door’s audio system and gain insight on how to run an efficient sound check with their primary house audio engineer, Sam Scheibner!

Their production includes the Yamaha Rivage PM5 Console and DSP-RX Engine, Crown I Tech amplifiers, and Soundweb London Blu sound distribution system, which includes 144×144 digital outputs/inputs to a Dante Network, distributed to several places around the building through their custom Ethernet Cat6/Cat7 patch network. The FOH speaker system includes (8) JBL Vertec 4888 Line Array Loudspeakers with (4) JBL Custom 18” Subs, plus fills. The full tech specs are available via PDF links here.

The Triple Door opened in fall 2003 and is celebrating its 23rd anniversary this year. The venue is owned by Rick and Ann Yoder, also owners of the Wild Ginger Restaurant above the venue. The venue has had 3 previous head audio engineers: Steve Malone, Craig Montgomery, Curt Nelson. Craig is notable for having been the FOH engineer for Nirvana. The Triple Door sound system was designed by Richard Irwin and installed by Morgan Sound. 

The historic Mann building that houses The Triple Door was originally home to the Embassy Theatre, a vaudeville house that opened in 1926. Built by the Mann and Gallatly families from Wenatchee, the theatre quickly transitioned to films as public tastes began to change in the late 1920s.

The theatre remained one of the premier movie houses in Seattle for the next 30 years, but by the early 1960s the grand days of the Embassy had come to an end. It struggled to hold its own as an A list theatre but managed to stay on as a blue movie and burlesque house until it closed for good in 1983.

Rick and Ann Yoder bought the historic building from Dave Gallatly in 1999 with plans to build a music and dinner theatre in the old Embassy. In the fall of 2002, renovation began with a simple goal: an intimate, comfortable space that would connect performers to their audience. Every effort was taken to preserve the ornate qualities of the old theatre, such as the original stage proscenium and ceiling fixtures. Rich fabrics, plush seating, and state of the art sound would complete the renovation, transforming the grand old space for a new generation of entertainment.