Owner Fabienne Malortigue has spent 2m in creating a completely new infrastructure - including a potent new sound system - and has brought in new director, Thierry Fontaine from The Loft in Lyon to add weight to the operation, which today offers an eclectic music mix to an 18-25-year-old crowd.
The venue contacted its long-term audio consultant, Nice-based integrators Perfec'son to upgrade the technical infrastructure. The
Reynolds, who has been piloting the band's house mix for the past four years, was delighted to find a Vi6 already in both the FOH and monitor positions when the band started their UK leg proper with a four-night stint at Koko in London, as the experienced sound engineer had already worked with the desk in his native Chicago - at Randy Flaws' Windy City Sound and Lighting.
"Randy got hold of the first couple of Vi6's for touring use in the States around a year ago, and when I'm back home I do work for that company. So I had the opportunity to get a feel for the Vi6 before the FX cards came alon
The design and integration for Innsbruck's Tivoli Neu Stadium was an upgrade to existing hardware, while the system implemented for Klagenfurt's Woerthersee Stadium was built from scratch. Both projects were managed by MOCOM's Harald Steindl.
"AudiaFLEX consistently sounds great and that's the primary requirement for me and my customers," Steindl remarked. "With such important events, it's also critical that the sound system be as reliable as possible or someone will lose business."
Both systems, though different desi
"The iLive is probably the most flexible digital console I've seen," says Mike Sinclair, co-owner of Audio Incorporated, and one of the engineering crew handling FOH mixing duties. "It feels like it was designed by people who mix sound, rather than engineers who don't use these systems on a regular basis - and that understanding really shows in the user interface and front-panel features.
"We have provided the iLive for various events," continues Sinclair, "but the Bermuda Music Festival was my first time handling live mixing with the console - it didn't take long for me to become very familiar with the system. The templat
Both the operating company and their audio contractors Complete Production Solutions Group (CPS) have a long history of working with proprietary Martin Audio dance systems, and as the new venue (to be named Crank) was taking shape, Future 3000 MD Richard Carr could already see the opportunity to replicate his epochal dance brand Slinky by again employing the Martin Audio principle to boost a new Friday night called Bedbug
.With Armand van Helden booked for the opening night, Martin Audio's national sales manager Simon Bull proposed a custom stack system, with raw aggression as its imprint.
CPS director Richard Colegate had already seen how effectively a perimeter of six carefully-optimised stacks had
With a substantial amount of Alcons pro-ribbon line-arrays, Megaforce have become the latest The Ribbon Network member in Germany. The initial order contained 36 x LR16, 12 x LR14, ALC2 and ALC4 amplified loudspeaker controllers, all fitted with Digital Drive Processors (DDP), including all (transport and flying) logistics.
Mark Liese, MD of Megaforce comments: "Alcons offers us a compact, high-resolution, full-range capable system, which we can use for almost, if not all, applications we encounter. It is absolutely convincing in terms of sound, handling and overall built-quality."
Megaforce is a large, full-service rental company, with focus on corporate events. Located in the south of Germany, Megafor
Established 15 years ago in Vara, in the southern part of Sweden, Andreas Karlsson's rental company is particularly well-known in corporate circles, where they handle the lion's share of big staff parties for client companies such as Carlsberg. Always working in live music, their projects take them mainly into clubs and large sporting venues and arenas.
The arrival of the first Geo S12 system in Sweden has surprised clients and engineers. "On the first show, the band's sound engineer was pretty shocked," explained Andreas Karlsson.
The new system features 10 M2D cabinets, 20 M1D cabinets, two M1D-Sub ultra-compact subwoofers, and one M2D-Sub compact subwoofer. Six UPA-1P compact wide coverage loudspeakers provide coverage to the seating surrounding either side of the hall's famed pipe organ. A Galileo loudspeaker management system handles system drive and processing.
The design collaboration between Sound By Design's principal engineer Phil Wright and systems engineer Dave Shepherd resulted in a system that can be reworked in
With 50 years in the industry, and his experience with Robbotronic Co, Horsham, Robinson's ambition is to encourage young people to become involved in the sound industry, and the ISCE are working closer than ever with Colleges and Universities throughout the UK to promote this.
Robinson commented: "The ISCE is committed to furthering the knowledge of all our members and we are rolling out a training programme which will actively help raise the standards of design and installations within the industry."
(Jim Evans)
Ascon Trading has recently completed a whole series of fixed installations, including sports centres in Odense and Hjallerup, a metro shopping centre in Aalborg, a cultural centre in Nibe and swimming baths in Ringsted, in each case employing components from Dynacord. Morten Larsen, Ascon's marketing manager MI, says, "Dynacord enjoys the same kind of reputation here as BMW or Audi in the automobile world. Like BMWs or Audis, Dynacord products are associated with high prices, but also with absolute reliability and real quality. And, at the present time, with the market increasingly flooded by cheap products from China, pe
The Intelix 70V-AM provides eight toroid transformers in a compact 1U, 19 inch rack-mountable chassis. The Intelix 70V-AM features a rack and panel style input connector, providing a single quick connection point when used with the Intelix Audisey Athena matrix mixer/amplifier, and eight convenient screw terminal (Euroblock) output connectors.
The fully isolated transformers provide flat frequency response within 1dB from 20Hz to 20kHz, and are designed for an 8ohm 50W input.
(Jim Evans)
The Solar Decathlon competition is hosted every year by the US Department of Energy's Office of Energy, Efficiency and Renewable Energy. It's a highly prestigious event, attracting competition entries from academic institutions all over the world - the USA, Canada, Germany and Spain. Teams must design a solar house, with every last watt of electricity used by the house being generated by the solar panels on the roof. The houses are displayed to the public on the National Mall in Washington DC and the winning house will to
Davies's live sound engineers Tristan Mallett and Chris Wibberley have been using C414s on the guitars and as drum overheads on all of the concerts Davies has performed this year in support of his new album, Working Man's Café, and introduced Davies to the new C5 and D5 stage mics when they were released earlier this year.
For the Electric Proms concert at the Roundhouse, Harman Pro UK supplied them with an Elle C microphone for one of Ray's female backing singers, while the man
Blitz is providing a full range of services for the show, supplying AV equipment including video control systems as well as a complete sound solution. The show began its journey in Hackney and is set to tour around the UK in 2008.
Blitz provided a d&b speaker system, Sennheiser radio mics and a Yamaha M7CL mixer. This technical setup was pioneered by sound designer Ian Horrocks-Taylor for the Lazy Town production, and Blitz worked alongside him to ensure consistency in the quality.
Ian Horrocks-Taylor explains: "Lazy Town carries an important message which is portrayed to the audience in a fun and highly entertaining manner so our te
A pro-audio veteran with more than 30 years experience, Langlois joins Meyer Sound from Audio Analysts in Colorado, where he held the positions of vice president of worship design and senior project manager. Langlois has designed and managed the sound system installations at some of the best known churches in the country, including Phoenix First Assembly and Jubilee Fellowship Church. His career has also included positions with MXR, Whirlwind and other manufacturers in the audio industry.
(Jim Evans)
Full knew that in order to put a new twist on an old standard, he would have to adjust the show's signature sound. "The director (Michael Grandage), music department, and I agreed that, since the musical is so well-known, we should approach this tour as a new piece of theatre," says Full. "This had a noticeable effect on the score, as we ended up with a very modern sound, but still retained the underpinnings of a classic big band. So, to reproduce the frequency range and SPL required, we needed a cabinet that could deal with a huge dynamic range."
Full and Jardine's design utilises
Nick Chubb of Show Hire purchased a number of Electro-Voice Zx100T loudspeakers and PA2400T amplifiers from Shuttlesound, after a successful test-drive of the equipment at the Badminton Horse Trials earlier in the year. At Burghley, the new 100V line compact cabinets were mounted on poles around the large arena, where the dressage and show-jumping elements of the three-day eventing competition are staged, along with demonstrations, workshops and prize-giving ceremonies.
"Everything we do at Burghley is temporary," explains Nick Chubb. "We can't even concrete a
It was the first 'full Adlib experience' for The Fray's FOH and monitor engineers Mark Maher and Brian Joseph, and they were pleased with the results. James Neale looked after FOH and Richie Nicholson was on monitor duty. Joseph reports: "Richie and James are way above and beyond what we expected as crew - in terms of their knowledge, professionalism, hard work and total dedication to the job."
The sound system was a JBL VerTec line array. This varied in size day to day due to the wide variety of venues on the itinerary, with the full system running at 10 VT4889 elements per side, together with four VT4888s for front-of-stage in-fills, and eight VT4880 subs per side. All Adlib's VerT
Situated on Welsh Back, Bibas Lounge Bar & Restaurant has been created in authentic art deco style by owner Costa Kkolos, and incorporates genuine memorabilia from the original Carnaby Street boutique.
Among the chrome and beveled mirrors, which form part of the £550,000 spent in developing the new infrastructure, is the type of Martin Audio sound reinforcement system you might expect to see in any of the world's leading dance venues.
Trevor Brooks, who runs local pro audio specialists CPM, was brought in to carry out a site survey after Kkolos heard the Martin Audio system installed by the contractors at nearby Barcelona Bar. The CPM proprietor and his freelance sound engineer Alan Crane knew immediately how
The Society is a new venture from James Morgan of the Brittania Property Corporation, which already operates a number of venues, but this is the first of a new breed. According to Morgan, the aim is "to do something different to everything else we do. It will still offer the gastro food and fine wine that we are known for, but it will be the first of the Society Bar/Kitchen Venue brand."
It's also the first venture outside London, appealing to the well-heeled young demographic of Northampton, just 90 minutes north of the capital. Morgan
At the top station of the Hahnenkamm, the 1,668m mountaintop jumping-off point for the hair-raising downhill ski event, Murdock installed a system including EV Xi-2123 enclosures and Xsubs.
For the traditional mountainside mass in the Hahnenkamm chapel, EV XLD enclosures were installed. At the Ehrenbachsee, a lake at an altitude of 1,802m, Hinterseer gave a concert with his
AMG has today announced the conclusion of negotiations on the two brand new sites in Leeds and Sheffield.
The Leeds venue is the site of the former Town and Country Club and AMG plans to restore the Grade I listed building to its former glory as one of the City's most historic music venues.
At the same time, AMG has also completed the leasehold acquisition of the former Roxy nightclub on Arundel Gate in Sheffield. A large, purpose built entertainment venue, the Roxy has had various incarnations from the Top Rank Suite in the 1970s and 1980s, famed for gigs from The Police and The Jam, David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust Tour in 1972
The DCN conferencing system is installed in ISESCO's main conference room, which has a capacity of up to 230 participants. With more than 50 member states - mostly Islamic countries - ISESCO frequently hosts large meetings that require simultaneous interpretation of Arabic, English and other European languages. The DCN system, including a channel selector, was recommenced by IN
"We love supplying products with individuality and also working with the people who manufacture and use them," comments atlantic audio managing director, Wolfgang Garçon. "As MC2 Audio is a very individual company, we are sure that the team and the brand fit very well with us and our product portfolio. Our customers know that we are always looking for the best solution."
MC2 Audio joins sister company XTA Electronics in the atlantic audio family, other members of which are DiGiCo and Martin Audio. Ian McCarthy, MD at MC2 Audio states: "Wolfgang has a great team at atl
