54 l March 2014
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livenews UNITED KINGDOM Strictly Yamaha on arena dance tour By Murray Stassen
THE POPULAR BBC1 programme Strictly Come Dancing has just completed a 21-date live arena tour, where fans had the chance to watch the celebrity participants and their professional dance partners strut it up on stage. South Wales-based Sonalyst has designed the sound for the Strictly tour for several years. Managing director Rory Madden chose a pair of Yamaha PM5Ds, an M7CL and an LS9 to mix the 2014 production.
GERMANY d&b buoys heavy metal cruise By Murray Stassen
IT HAS been revealed that d&b audiotechnik systems provided the sound for the Mein Schiff 1, a heavy metal themed cruise liner conceived by Wacken Festival founders, Holger Hübner and Thomas Jensen. The 30,000 tonne luxury ship
set off from Hamburg and made stops in the UK, France and the Netherlands, collecting around 2,000 metal fans along the way. There were three live venues on board and the ship’s theatre, casino and pool deck were kitted out with over 100 tonnes of lighting and sound systems
supplied and crewed by Karlsruhe-based Crystal Sound. Crystal Sound project
manager André Ballweg, explains: “Some people think metal music is a blunt instrument and any PA will do but you might be interested to learn that metallers, more than many music fans, have learned that good quality sound, undistorted at high volumes, enables them to listen more and for louder and longer. “That’s why we installed only d&b audiotechnik systems on board, specifically V-Series and J-Series,” says Ballweg. More than 20 bands provided
a slab of everything metal on the cruise, even, reports d&b, a “rusty sea shanty version of the classic Death Spunk Explosion from those funsters from Frankfurt, Infested Intestines”. “Of course people will
wonder why we didn’t all disembark with bleeding ears,” observed Tungsten Torstein, a fan from Tanhaus, “But, then we don’t share the secret of good sound with just anyone; d&b doesn’t just stand for decibels you know? Das ist Artze, as we say in the brotherhood.”
www.dbaudio.com www.crystal-sound.de
It might look like a normal cruise ship. But onboard, it’s pure “MEEETTTTAAAALLLL!” WORLD Head of audio, Gareth Lewis
explains that one of the biggest challenges of the show is mixing the monitors. Lewis mixes monitors on a second PM5D, with an LS9-32 acting as switcher for two playback machines, dealing with presenter talkback, some overall show relay and as a line driver for the ‘voice of god’. “I love mixing on the PM5D.
Fab-U-Lous! It might be Studer desks in the studio, but Yamaha takes the Strictlyexperience to the masses, darling...
It’s really comfortable to use, you can do everything on the surface and wherever you are you can see everything that’s going on,” explains Lewis.
www.yamahacommercialaudio.com
SWEDISH HEAVY metal band Sabaton are preparing for the Worldwide Plagues tour, during which they will perform with a full complement of Sennheiser microphones and wireless systems. Monitor engineer Otto Kroymann comments: “Joakim Brodén, our lead singer (above), has such a wide dynamic range that we have had real problems
finding a suitable microphone. However, when we had the chance to test the Sennheiser SKM 2000 wireless system combined with the MMD 945 capsule, we knew that our search was over.” The band returns to European soil at the end of May where they will be headlining at some of Europe’s biggest heavy metal festivals.
www.sennheiser.com
Photo: Diana Johnson
Photo: Anna Dave Bertram
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