26 l April 2014
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Three ofUniversal’s newest signings – Sons and Lovers, Eliza and the Bear and Fred Page – have just completed the 14-date Satellite Tour with an SSLLive console supplied by HD Pro Audio. Production for the tour was handled by Cato Music. “It’s a truly superb console,” comments Cato’s FOH engineer Jim King. “It’s very intuitive and quick to learn, but the outstanding feature is its audio quality. The sound is incredible and it’s really easy to get a great mix with very little effort.”
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British audiovisual specialist Saville Audio Visual has continued to expand the hire inventories of several of its branches with KV2 Audioproducts. The most recent investment came from its north- east office, which, following a successful year, was in a position to boost its existing KV2 inventory. Having run KV2’s powered EX10s for the last eight years, the office’s team say they were “looking for the same high-quality output but from a lighter cabinet” and found their solution in the passive ESD10.
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Adlib Audiohas supplied a SoundcraftSi Expression 2 mixing console to Leeds University Union. The union operates three live rooms: the 1,200-capacity main room, Stylus, and two subsidiaries, Mine and Pulse, with respective capacities of 450 and 350. Technical manager Sam Ryder says: “I considered the options but knew the Si Expression 2 would give us a compact desk with a lot of outputs and an intuitive interface that anyone can operate.”
www.soundtech.co.uk/soundcraft
DPA Microphoneshas appointed Okno-Audio as its new distributor in Russia. Michael Trolle, DPA EMEA sales manager, says: “The Russian market is growing rapidly and carries enormous potential for DPA. To maximise this, we need a strong distribution partner with an established presence in the live sound, broadcast and installation markets. OKNO-AUDIO fits this brief perfectly.”
www.dpamicrophones.com Satis&Fy-ied by Nexo STM
Global events planner Satis&fy has announced a commercial tie-up with Nexo – but great sound isn’t the only thing on its ambitious CEO’s mind. Jon Chapplefinds out more
THERE ARE some corporate clients that are very much focused on a clinically calculated look for their brand … if you’re working for a bank that wants a clean blue background, the technical execution just needs to disappear.” Nico Ubenauf, the youthful
chief operating officer of German-based but globally minded events company Satis&Fy, is enthusing about his 36 shiny new Nexo STM modules – and their distinct – and desirable – lack of visual bombast. The understated, versatile STM (Scale Through Modularity) system and its LEGO-brick approach to live sound has been much discussed since its debut at 2012’s Prolight + Sound, but for Ubenauf its combination of muscular sound with an endless potential for integration makes the system a winner. “There are some places, like in touring, where you want to see as much as you can, but others where you just want everything to disappear.” Satis&Fy, which currently uses d&b and L-Acoustics systems, is a new Nexo customer, and Ubenauf says he hopes the purchase is “just the start” for the fledgling partnership. The company, founded in 1993, is one of the largest players in Europe for events equipment and architecture, operating out of Germany, the Netherlands and the US. It stages around 3,500 shows a year, including some of the continent’s largest festivals in the form of Rock am Ring, Rock im Park and Rock’n’Heim, and is also a major player in the corporate events sector, working for customers like Nike on a worldwide basis with its flagship “one-stop solution”:
an “integrated technical consulting, planning and implementation package” for professional events. “The modularity of the system is really attractive to us because we’re doing both touring and corporate shows, so we need to be extremely flexible
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Reinhard Steger, Nexo sales manager for Germany (left) with Satis&Fy CEO Nico Ubenauf
Ubenauf hopes to take
Satis&Fy is hoping Nexo’s STM will enable it “to not have to buy a system of every size, but be able to do two or three different challenges with one”
“There are some places where you want to see as much as you can, but others where you just want everything to disappear” Nico Ubenauf
with our systems,” Ubenauf explains. “Usually, you have to buy a different system to meet every need, so we are hoping to not have to buy a system of every size, but be able to do two or three different challenges with one system just by arranging it [the way we need].”
delivery of the new STM boxes by the end of April, and is already planning their grand debut. “We actually have a very exciting project coming up,” he says. “We’ve just taken over a very large old industrial hall near Frankfurt, and we’re starting to do large corporate events, which poses a lot of different challenges. Acoustic problems?
“Acoustic, and basically everything – from flying [systems] to fire marshals. It’s a 100-year-old industrial building which is basically falling apart, but the patina of the whole building is so exciting, and we think the STM system is going to be a nice solution-provider for this location.” We think so, too, Nico. Although you’re on your own with the fire marshals…
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