“If I could hire the arena at the end of my road for a huge egg-and-spoon race, who would I ask to come along?”
Cover picture:Azerbaijan’s Sabina Babayeva sings When The
Music Diesin the Eurovision final Photo: Ralph Larmann for Sennheiser
SO I WASthinking. If I could hire the Ladywell Arena, at the end of my road in SE6, for a huge egg-and- spoon race, who would I ask to come along? Delta Sound, Britannia Row and Dimension Audio, perhaps. They could bring Yamaha desks, T5n amps, and those DME mixing engine things, plus plenty of L-Acoustics V-DOSC and dV SUBs (my iPod will sound fab!) . We’d need Electro-Voice and JBL speakers on the buildings around the park, I reckon. (Shopping list: nails, hammer, healthy snacks, bottles of Pepsi.) If some of the competitors fancied a splash about later, I’d direct them to Ladywell Pools up the road, where I would have installed a good number of Community R-Series speakers and TRC transformers. My neighbour’s got one of those basketball hoops above his garage: we could hang some Community boxes there as well. (Probably see if that clever Roland Hemming chap could help wire all this gear in for me.) Microphones? Lots and lots of Audio-Technica models, for winning speeches and stuff, karaoke maybe, some Sennheiser kit too. In fact, get the Wycombe boys to bring their tents so they could stay over for the duration. Invite Terry Tew and Mick Shepherd along, but only if they brought a big box of AA batteries. I’d ask Aussie bloke Scott Willsalen to keep an eye on the volume levels at the pre-race party (check out my edit of Born Slippy, done with Pro Tools – sensible choice), and put Bobby Aitken in charge of everything sounding nice. “He will, he will rock you...” Woo-hoo! Right, time to get on the phone, see if everyone can come... What’s that? Busy? All summer? WHAT?! Dave Robinson
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NEWS 4 PSNEurope’s Olympic round-up 5 Allen & Heath celebrates Queen’s Award success 6 Industry appointments 8 Key pro-audio events and expos
TECHNOLOGY 10 Product review: Unity Audio, The Boulder 12 New products
InfoComm review Highlights of another busy show
STUDIO 17 Roland relocates to Metropolis Studios 18 Goldcrest Post enjoys Olympic success 19 Avid sheds M-Audio, AIR and Sibelius 20 Fenix Studios celebrates its first birthday
BROADCAST 25 Broadcasting Euro 2012 27 Intercom: what technology next? 30 Unique multi-site opera broadcast 32 Feature: Live reporting
LIVE 36 Meeting the challenges of Eurovision 2012 38 Noise Control Audio at UK’s newest festival site 42 PSNEurope talks to Line 6 MD Mike Muench 44 Feature: Theatre sound design 48 Feature: On the road, part 1
INSTALL 50 Triple product launch for VUE 51 Academy Music Group invests in VENUEs 52 Stuttgart convention centre fits out with Lawo 53 Olympic training venue opts for K-array
BACK PAGES 57 Hither & Dither 58 Interview: Gert Sanner, Harman Pro