THEATRE SOUND
RED-Y FOR ACTION While the Yamaha kit is used to move audio around within the concert halls a major part of the theatre’s networked audio infrastructure is taken care of by Focusrite’s RedNet audio interfaces and converters. Supplied by Focurite’s Polish distributor
Audiotech, the Capitol Theatre features 14 RedNet units in total with one RedNet 1 eight-channel AD/DA I/O and two RedNet 3 32-channel digital I/O installed in each of the rehearsal rooms. “The RedNet system completes the network that is mainly based on Yamaha products with signals from the Yamaha AD8HR preamps that were already owned by the theatre being transferred to RedNet3, while linear signals are transmitted to the RedNet 1 and 2,” explains Marciniak. While the system is still quite new and the
technical team is still experimenting with it, the potential is that users can register any
performances or rehearsals for training purposes from any room in the building. All signals are sent to a PC running
Steinberg Nuendo 6.0 and installed with a RedNet PCIe card in the small recording studio, which, according to Poplawski, has seen significant use since the theatre’s opening, recording performances for archival purposes. The studio is also equipped with Avalon Design 737SP channel strips, Universal Audio 4-710D preamps, and additional Yamaha AD8HRs. For further future-proofing and to ensure that the theatre is ready for upcoming broadcasts of its performances, they have also opted to install two RedNet 6 64-channel MADI bridges in the main auditorium giving them access to 128 channels of bidirectional MADI channels at standard sample rates (44.1/48kHz), or 64 channels at 96kHz.
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CREATING AN IMMERSIVE ATMOSPHERE
Architecture, networks, and studios aside, a theatre truly shines when the technology becomes transparent and the audience can become immersed within the performance.
Picture by Lukasz Giza
Electro-acoustic specialist M. Ostrowski was commissioned to install Capitol Theatre’s auditorium sound systems and knowing that it wanted to utilise the Dante network, and with a long-standing history with Yamaha, the company opted to fit both the main and secondary auditoriums with consoles from the company. In the main auditorium, two Yamaha CL3 digital consoles sit at FOH with a CL5 at the monitor position and six R-series I/O units. The smaller auditorium features a Yamaha M7CL-48 digital console fitted with the MY16-AUD Dante interface card and two further R-series I/O units. “The theatre started using Yamaha equipment when the 02R console was introduced and subsequently used DM2000s,” says Pawel Zachanowicz,
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application engineer for Yamaha Music Europe, who consulted with the theatre during the build. “The technical staff know Yamaha equipment very well and trust its stability and reliability.” The official opening of the theatre this
past September saw the release of a stage adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s classic novel The Master and Margarita, which has received great reviews despite hickups during rehearsals. “There were several problems with room
acoustics, the wireless system, and the PA system – all the new stuff, so it’s normal,” says Artur Poplawski. “We are learning all the time and in the end, the performances were great.”
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