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www.prosoundnewseurope.com/live For the latest live news UNITED KINGDOM Can you hear the reign? By Erica Basnicki
LEGENDARY ARTISTS performing in front of Buckingham Palace, and a rain- soaked Thames River Pageant were the highlights of this year’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations. The high-profile events celebrating the Queen’s 60-year reign attracted hundreds of thousands of spectators and
an Outline system consisting of 96 Butterfly enclosures with 48 Subtech subwoofers. “Our brief was to provide an
‘invisible’ PA – no towers, no flown arrays, but of course it had to sound perfect,” said Brit Row MD Bryan Grant. In addition Britannia Row also supplied an inventory of Sennheiser microphones and IEMs, including SKM 5200
release of the concert’ though the Queen did receive a gold disc for CD sales of her Golden Jubilee concert in 2002. Perhaps Her Majesty will be awarded a diamond disc next? For the River Pageant, Delta Sound supplied 45 individual hangs of JBL VTX line arrays, 156 VTX V25 line array elements and 54 JBL VerTec line array loudspeakers, lined along the Thames from Putney Bridge to Tower Bridge and on down to Greenwich. The torrential rain had no effect on the DPA 4088, d:vote 4099, and 4060 microphones used on the barges, supplied by Thames Audio, which were feeding a series of Delta’s Yamaha LS9 consoles. Finally, keeping the entire
Over 250,000 spectators stayed dry for the Jubilee Concert in front of Buckingham Palace
millions more television viewers. At the concert, Britannia
Row supplied a fleet of Midas consoles. It was one of the largest networks of Midas desks ever built, handling a total of over 416 channels of audio. One PRO2C and two PRO9 consoles were used at front of house – with XL8, PRO9 and PRO6 consoles on monitors. The PA chosen was
MK II microphones with KK 105 heads for the presenters and 2000 series IEMs for all on stage.
At the end of the signal chain,
capturing the entire concert was Pyramix, used in conjunction with a Smart AV Tango 2 controller provided by Floating Earth. According to Merging Technologies there are ‘no immediate plans for a public
show running smoothly was Clear-Com, which provided three Eclipse Median digital matrix intercoms and more than a dozen V-Series key-panels, also supplied by Delta Sound, to facilitate communications between the event’s sound, lighting, pyrotechnics, security and stage-management production teams.n
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The secrets behind the Games’ Opening Ceremony will be revealed at PLASA 2012
UNITED KINGDOM PLASA pushes content By Erica Basnicki
PLASA 2012 has increased its professional development programme this year with a weighty 80 sessions scheduled, including seminars on sustainability and ‘top secret’ Olympics presentations. Taking place immediately after the London 2012 Olympics, PLASA 2012 will celebrate the audio industry’s contribution to the Games with a series of sessions. Included among them will be a panel of (as yet, undisclosed) production personnel discussing the highs and lows of the Games’ Opening Ceremony. The Sustainability Programme
will explore how to reconcile the needs of an energy-hungry industry with responsible environmental practices, and how this can pay dividends for your business. Future Trends looks at the
current direction of technology and where it might lead us. The headline session ‘Are we near to
Perfect Sound?’ will be presented by director of R&D at Martin Audio, Jason Baird, and d&b audiotechnik product manager, Werner ‘Vier’ Bayer, plus a representative from Meyer Sound. The Emerging Technologies
programme will focus on cutting-edge technologies – nanotechnology, memristor memory, LED/laser data transmission, gesture recognition, quantum computers, T-rays and holograms – and how they may be used in the events industry. International and Major
Projects is a series of sessions that will provide access to the most ambitious and challenging projects out there. Headlining the programme are Durham Marenghi and Tim Routledge with their account of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Concert. Tickets are still available for the entire four-day event for only £10 (€12). Pre-registered visitors will be notified when seminar booking opens online.n
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