38 l July 2013
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livefeature The most famous landmark in the world?
NOT THAT the French have a reputation for contrariness, or anything. Towards the end of May, just as stock markets in London, Frankfurt and New York recorded their highest peaks since the 2000 bubble, which country officially re-entered recession? What is the only language other than English that the Eurovision Song Contest is obliged to use in its live presentation? And did you know that France has its own meridian at the Paris Observatory, in resolute opposition to Greenwich, used by shipping right up to 1914? Vive la différence, indeed. But pro audio is a global
village, as we all know, and even France conforms to the wider trends abetting and afflicting everyone. IP, for example, is coming of age in all territories, and nowhere is this more visible than in the multi-sector solutions dreamed up by Grenoble-based innovator Digigram. At ISE this year, Digigram leaned heavily on video-over-IP but also offered up PYKO-in and PYKO-out audio terminals: gateways to audio over IP not just for paging and public information but for increasingly high-performance AV – including webcasting.
AVANT GARDE Other global forces are at work, with France actually in the vanguard. To wit: the ink is barely dry on a deal in which Paris-based reseller Juke Box Ltd is to sell the new SSL Live console into France, and indeed founder Jean-Baptiste Lierre led an eager clutch of potential clients onto Eurostar at the end
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APPLE JUS Phil Ward cuts another slice of national pie, and adds crème anglaise
At the heart the Franco-German console crucible that is Innovason- Lawo is designer Hervé de Caro, often referred to as the ‘godfather of Eclipse’. In that capacity, de Caro has been making full use of this season’s French festivals in a move to demonstrate the potential of Lawo technology in the live environment: not as an alternative to Innovason, but as a source of networking know- how that will ultimately seed the next generation of the Eclipse platform. One such recent event was Jazz Sous Les Pommiers in Normandy, where the scope of Lawo’s mc256 MKII blossomed across two outdoor stages to the sound of trumpets. Just the one console, in fact, dealt with all the
routing for broadcaster Sombrero’s live TV coverage of the event on channel Arte Live, and for simultaneous recording by mobile sound specialist YASTA for post-production. “We had six MT128 DAWs,” de Caro says, “three recording pre-fader and three post-fader. To do the same with Innovason or Yamaha models would need three or four desks: the Lawo controls a 1,000 x 1,000 point router, with 32 MIDI inputs and 32 MADI outputs. Each MADI port can have 64 I/Os, so you can imagine how flexibly you can connect all the stageboxes, recorders and outside broadcasts. Basically, this kind of networking is the future of our joint console development.”
Gregory Dapsanse, APG
Philippe Guerinet with the SSL C300
of last month for a good look at the product at Solid State Logic’s HQ in Oxfordshire. Meanwhile the first customer wordwide, not just in France, is based in Montpellier. “The SSL Live console is causing a huge buzz in France,” reports Lierre. “We are the dealer in France, but SSL retains the right to go direct with certain clients. It’s an easy migration for us because, in France, when people think SSL they think Juke Box... and we’ve supplied a lot of outboard and other gear to the live sector ever since we started the company 18 years ago.”
Philippe Guerinet, director
of international sales at SSL France, concedes that after three strong years that saw the completion of major broadcast projects – such as three HD OB
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