Olympic Cinemas has transformed the former Olympic Recording Studios into modern cinema and performance theatres. Renowned engineer Chris Kimsey (The Rolling Stones, Peter Frampton, Duran Duran) began his illustrious career at Olympic and has now returned as the sound consultant and engineer for its live concert series and recording facilities.
Chris chose the powerful and feature-packed DiGiCo SD11 to provide 'front of house' duties for the live concerts. The SD11's compact size allows Chris to set up his mixing position in the middle of the cinema seating and a single network cable is used to link the mixer to the D-Rack stagebox.
Introduced to DiGiCo by engineer and Art of Noise member Gary Langan, Chris has found the SD11 to be a reliable, sonically accurate and future-proof digital mixing system. He comments: "DiGiCo was highly recommended by Gary, and after hearing how great it sounds I knew we had to go with the SD11. Its sonic characteristics are outstanding, especially the mic pres."
He continues, "The layout of the board is very intuitive and there is an immense amount of R&D that goes into the design of the consoles to make them intuitive and built for speed. I continue to discover more options on the board every time I use it."
HHB sales Manager Andrew Hingley comments, "Olympic Cinemas are absolutely fantastic and it is great to see Chris so involved with specifying sound equipment and mixing the concerts. The feature set of the SD11 is outstanding for a console of its size and Chris has been very impressed with the onboard effects and dynamics. It is a great honour to be a part of the new phase of Olympic and to work with Chris on this project."
(Jim Evans)
