ACADEMY MUSIC Group (AMG), owner and operator of O2 Academy venues nationwide, purchased five Avid VENUE SC48 consoles from Adlib Solutions as part of its latest round of technical upgrades. The consoles will be installed
at O2 Academy venues in Glasgow, Liverpool, Birmingham, Oxford and Newcastle. These are in addition to the VENUE Profile Systems already installed at O2 Academy venues in Bristol, Islington (London) and Oxford. “In some venues where space is limited, or when we have to provide a full console set-up alongside a touring desk, they fit in the space required,”
touring on larger shows are often able to bring their own boards, but the smaller tours and support bands don’t and we need to be able to provide for them.” Jackson added that having the
(L-R): Simon King, O2 Academy Oxford, assistant technical manager; Ed Jackson, Academy Music Group, group technical manager; James Baker, sales account manager, live sound, Avid; Ian Simpson, O2 Academy Oxford, technical manager
commented AMG group technical manager, Ed Jackson. “The boards were chosen so
they can be used in both front of house and monitor positions. Their small footprint means that
they can be moved around and used in our venues of varying capacities. Visiting engineers
ability to record 32 channels over FireWire to a laptop running Pro Tools was “something that we wanted to achieve in-house for a considerable length of time”. “We were able to get the SC48s set up before sending them out to the venues so that they were able to use them straight away,” Jackson concluded. “They opened the cases, plugged them in and off they went. Since they’ve used the extra features on the SC48s, all of the feedback has been positive.”n www.academy-music-group.co.ukwww.avid.com