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PM1D DIGITAL DESKS SPECIFIED FOR 81st ACADEMY AWARDS
While Slumdog Millionaire took home eight “I now can confidently program and recall PM1D, which allows for quick fader accessibility
Oscars including Best Picture on February the subtlest details in an orchestra balance for on only two layers. The console offers pure
22, when the 81st Academy Awards each performance. The Yamaha PM1D and digital sound that is dynamically true and clean.
Ceremony was held at the Kodak Theatre in PM5D consoles have a proven reliability and are With a proper approach, the engineer can
Hollywood and broadcast live on ABC, there widely accepted by artist engineers.” achieve extremely full sounding mixes which
were three behind-the-scenes winners that Baltzell was also the PA system designer and is especially important when creating in-ear
evening: Yamaha digital audio consoles. front of house mixer for the 44th Presidential mixes.”
PA designer and FOH engineer Pat Baltzell Inauguration and Super Bowl XLIII. “For the Monitor tech Tom Pesa said that individual
(above right) received a helping hand from ATK Inauguration of President Obama, I used a pair scene recalling has become a standard on multi-
Audiotek, who supplied both a Yamaha PM1D of Yamaha PM5Ds cascaded. Several alternative act television shows. Pesa was also the monitor
128-input/64-output Dual Engine system and digital consoles were offered to me, but I had mixer for Super Bowl XLIII and the A-stage at
PM5D digital console to outfit front of house. A the most confidence in the Yamaha consoles the Grammys. “Performers and guest engineers
Yamaha PM1D-128 input/64-output Dual Engine to work outdoors for three weeks in sub-zero traveling into a show expect to be able to have
system was also used and manned by monitor temperatures.” their own scene, fully customisable to their
mixer Michael Parker (above left), supported by Michael Parker, who was also the monitor performance and recalled exactly for the live
monitor tech Tom Pesa. mixer for the B-stage at The 51st Grammy show,” said Pesa. “Yamaha pioneered this on a
“Digital recall consoles have increased the Awards, noted that digital mixing in general has large-scale console early on with PM1D.”
detail of a mix by an order of magnitude for been a major step in offering quickly accessible This year’s Grammy Awards had 24 live
multiple performance television shows such processing, which is very important in live performances on two stages. While Parker and
as The Academy Awards,” said Baltzell. “In television shows. Pesa split the duties with two separate PM1D
the analogue days, I was always ‘splitting the He said: “The engineer is now able to create monitor systems at the Grammys, Ron Reaves at
difference’ and making compromises, knowing a consistent, personal starting point for the FOH was responsible for mixing every act and
I would only be able to restore certain settings Yamaha PM1D that is well developed from other relied solely on a single PM1D system.
but not all. shows. Of high importance is the layout of www.yamahacommercialaudio.com
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