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Winchester, UK-based AV integrator Whitwam has installed two Shure SCM820 automatic audio mixers and three Sound Devices PIX260 AV recorders at the headquarters of the Royal Society in London. The mixers and recorders were supplied as part of a comprehensive refit of the audiovisual facilities in two of the Grade I-listed rooms at the Royal Society’s headquarters at Carlton House Terrace in central London.
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One of London’s biggest nightclubs has chosen Void Acoustics to provide sound equipment as part of a major refurbishment. Void was tasked with installing a new system in Studio 338, in Greenwich without creating noise issues for the club’s neighbours or requiring any additional acoustic damping.
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IOSONO sound systems were used for two events in Germany in May. A 3D sound system was used on the 28th for the première of the opera Das Narrenschiff at the University of Music, Detmold – at 380 channels, the largest IOSONO installation in Europe – while on 15 May, the company provided a temporary 3D sound installation for the German Games Award ceremony at the Postpalast in Munich.
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A new audio-visual system featuring Renkus-Heinz Iconyx IC Live digitally steered arrays has been installed in the University of Oslo’s Faculty of Dentistry. The system was designed by Cowi Consultaing Group, led by Geir Kristoffersen and working with Norwegian distributor Benum, and installed by Caverion Norway. “The IC Live fits perfectly in this space,” says Benum’s Sverre Jøssund “You can play heavy rock music, or the softest professor’s voice, and it all sounds clear, clean, and powerful. They’re really happy with the system.”
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The full Brazilian: World Cup 2014 review
With the 2014 FIFA World Cup done and dusted and the decidedly un-sporty staff of PSNEurope finally allowed to admit we didn’t really care, here’s our report on the installed and broadcast audio specialists who were making sure we could hear every goal, whistle and bite. By Jon Chapple
ALLEN & HEATH’S GLD digital mixer was responsible for managing the audio of the Maracanã stadium in Rio de Janiero, which hosted seven World Cup matches, including the final on 13 July. The mixer sits at the heart of the E-V sound system and is fitted with a Dante network card, controlling audio distribution around the entire stadium through fibre optic cables. Augusto Bergamim, sound manager and system programmer at the Maracanã, comments: “The main reason we chose GLD was because of Allen & Heath’s fantastic sound quality, reliability and ease of use.”
Allen & Heath consoles were also supplied by Teleporto, A&H’s distribution partner, to number of World Cup broadcasters, including Fox Sports Brazil, Fox Sports Argentina and Sigma. Fox Sports Brazil, one of the games’ key broadcasters, made use of a GLD-80 digital mixer connected via Dante to three Lawo consoles and three RTS matrixes, while Sigma used Qu-16 and Qu-24 compact digital mixers and iDR- 16 and iDR-48 iLive MixRacks. “When working on a project that has a worldwide impact, quality and reliability are key,” says Teleponto’s president, Antonio Neto. “There are no second chances. That is why we chose Allen & Heath consoles to handle our audio needs. When our reputation is on the line, having a partner like [A&H] is very important.”
German manufacturer/ distributor Salzbrenner Stagetec Mediagroup supplied equipment to both European and domestic Brazilian broadcasters, including the São Paulo-based SBT – as reported on in more detail in last month’s broadcast audio feature by David Davies – and EPTV, and tpc (Technology and Production Centre) in Zurich. EPTV used an OB van with Stagetec’s Crescendo mixing console, Nexus audio network and a DELEC oratis intercom system, connected to Nexus via Dante, while tpc had two Crescendos, each with a Nexus base device.
Host Broadcast Services (HBS), which also provided host broadcast services at the 2009 and 2013 Confederations Cups
interconnected to TV Globo through an E-QUE E1 trunk line. On the loudspeaker front, Community systems were installed in three World Cup stadia – Mineirão, Arena de São Paulo and Arena Amazonia, in Belo Horizonte, São Paulo and Manaus, respectively – by São Paulo-based Soundvision. The main system configuration in the Mineirão comprised 24 clusters, each with four or five Community R2 loudspeakers. In total, the system used 24 Community R2-52s, 24 R2-694s, six R2-94s, four R2-77s and 48 R2-474 loudspeakers. The speakers were fed from processors and amplifiers located in five technical rooms, communicating through CobraNet with D-Link redundancy and BSS-BLU processors. Meanwhile, at the
Brazil’s Marcelo Vieira in action against Croatia at the Arena Corinthians
and 2010 World Cup, utilised wireless and wired microphones from Sennheiser – including the company’s new Esfera surround microphone system, which it says would “capture the stadium atmosphere as realistically as possible and [...] provide the matches with thrilling commentaries and pitchside reports”. Clear-Com communications equipment was used in every World Cup stadium in Brazil, including at the Arena Corinthians for the opening ceremony on 12 June. TV Globo Rio’s complement of Clear-Com included four Eclipse Omega systems interconnected by E-FIB, together with an Eclipse Median at the International Broadcasting Centre (IBC),
Independência stadium, also in Belo Horizonte, the Walters- Storyk Design Group (WSDG)- specified system included 13 clusters of 10 DAS Audio Aero 12 line arrays, with 160 DAS Artec 26 speakers to cover areas in acoustic shadow. Distributed around the venue in the public and administration areas were an additional 41 DAS Artec 4T wall- and ceiling-mount speakers and 166 DAS Artec CL6-T 0 in-ceiling drivers. WSDG also specified 24 main clusters each of three Electro-Voice speakers at the Estádio do Maracanã – an historic stadium which in 1983 accommodated a reported 250,000 fans for a Kiss concert. Broadcasting from the Maracanã was Brazilian satellite/cable TV broadcaster GloboSat, whose new 4k OB truck – Brazil’s first – is fitted with a 48-fader Lawo mc256. On his work with Lawo, Gabriel Thomazini, a sound engineer on the OB truck, comments: “We have had good results with audio-over-IP for some time, but we now face the requirement for a higher channel count and infrastructure growth. We are ready for this next level of challenge with RAVENNA/ AES67 and the Lawo mc2 series. For us, Lawo represents an ideal balance between technology and
Photo: Federal government of Brazil
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