In Milton Keynes, the Denbigh School has opened a new building for its Performing Arts faculty, and this 350-capacity multipurpose space will deploy the modular Nexo Geo M6 for the growing number of student activities in music, dance and drama.
Music technology leader Dave Wilkie, who oversaw the audio and lighting project together with Nexo dealer and installer Fabtronic, is himself a FOH engineer. "The Geo M6 system was ideal for what we wanted to do; because of its modular design, it's flexible enough to use for the whole space or part of it, allowing us to move the coverage by adjusting the angles of the lowest boxes."
Denbigh School's system uses six Geo M6 cabinets with one LS18 sub per side of the stage area. "We don't have much load-bearing capacity but each hang weighs just 70 kgs, and has a very low profile. We paired it with a Yamaha QL5 console, running on a Dante network, and used the Nexo proprietary software NS-1 to do the modelling - when we fired it up, we found the consistency across the seating area to be quite staggering."
The school has purchased pole-mount hardware and wheelboards which allows Dave Wilkie to take modules off the array and create a portable system which can be used elsewhere.
In Oxford, St Edward's School has purchased 10 Geo M6 cabinets for its North Wall Theatre, where a diverse range of events take place, from live music to theatre productions, film screenings to general speech presentations.
Supplied and installed by the audio sales division of Nexo dealer A.C. Entertainment Technologies, the project was managed by Steve Eaton and the School's AV expert Clive Stevenson. Using six M6 modules for the main front-of-house PA, set up in a curved mini-array of 3 modules per side, another four cabinets were installed as two pairs towards the back of the hall. Four LS18 subs are in the system, which is powered by just two NXAMP4x1 controller-amplifiers.
Clive Stevenson declares himself particularly impressed by the system and its musical performance, especially given its compact size.
(Jim Evans)
