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have been treble the price,” he rationalised. “We narrowed our choice down to two, and compared the sound quality in the old venue, but the SD8 was way more on the spot and very intuitive. It also has a very logical set-up and contains more I/Os than anything at the same price point, and a more powerful processor in the Super FPGA.” To emphasise his point he recalls that a sound engineer with well- known ‘old school’ band Peter Pan Speedrock hadn’t read the tech- nical rider, and there was to be no sound check. “And so we quickly made him a session on the SD8 and pre-EQ’d everything so he just had to gain it in. There was an extremely quick changeover between bands and after the show he said that it had been awesome.” As for TM Audio, it has provided many such solutions for A-league circuit touring venues. Rudolf Nagtzaam believes the reason for its success extends way beyond the brands, and owes much to its standard of service and support. “We always try and sell the total package,” he said.
And in a multi-band, multi-cultural, all-day-trading venue, where fast patching and venue configuration are necessary to meet technical riders, and playback music from the DJ booth, stage - and even remote iPods - drive the PA, it is the elaborate signa l/ routing path devised by TM Audio’s Account Manager, Jaap Pronk, which prob- ably holds the key to the venue’s success. Lighting in the main room is flown from three 10 metre lengths of Admiral F34 truss. Each truss is mounted on two Lift Champ 500kg hoists. The fixture stock includes 16 Clay Paky Alpha Spot HPE 300’s, four Martin Professional Atomic 3000 DMX strobes, 16 Showtec Sunstrips, Look Solutions’ Unique 2 hazer and Viper 2.6 smoke machine, as well as more conventional fixtures like Philips Selecon Pacific profiles and par cans. Control comes from an MA Lighting GrandMA 2 Ultralight and focusHAND 3 wireless remote, or an Avolites Pearl 2010 is also available.
Certainly the new Metropool has quickly captured the imagination of its traditional customer base, and in its enlarged home, with full daytime facilities, it is a perfect flagship to kick-start the regeneration of Hengelo’s Hart van Zuid development programme.
TECHNICAL INFORMATION
SOUND PA: 14 x Martin Audio W8LM line array; 2 x Martin Audio W8LMDI (downfill); 2 x Martin Audio W8VDQ (hybrid downfill); 2 x Martin Audio ASX active sub; 3 x Martin Audio MA6.8Q amplifier; Allen & Heath IDR8 mix/router; XTA DC1048 processing; 1 x Midas XL4 44 mono + 4 stereo desk; 1 x XTA GQ-600 equaliser; 1 x Lexicon PCM 91 digital reverberator; 1 x TC Electronics M3000 reverb processor; 1 x Yamaha SPX 2000; TC Electronics D-2 delay unit MONITOR: 1 x DiGiCo SD8 monitor desk; 5 x BSS Audio Opal graphic EQ; 15 x Martin Audio LE1500S speaker; 2 x Martin Audio S18 sub; 1 x Martin Audio F15 speaker; XTA DC1048 processing SIDE FILL: 2 x (Martin Audio S218+, 2 x 18” sub + Martin Audio F215, 2 x 15” top); XTA DC 1048 processing, Martin Audio MA4.8, MA 6.8 amplification DJ: 1 x Allen & Heath Xone 92 DJ mixer; 1 x Pioneer DJM-600 DJ mixer; 4 x Pioneer CJ-1000 Mk3 CD deck; 4 x Technics SL1210 Mk2 turntable
LIGHTING 16 x Clay Paky Alpha spot 300 HPE; 4 x Martin Professional Atomic strobe + colourchanger; 16 x Showtech Sunstrip; 1 x Look Solutions Unique 2 hazer; 1 x Look Viper 2.6 smoke machine; 10 x PAR 64 sixbar 1kW; 12 x PAR 64 floorspot 1kW; 3 12 x Selecon Pacific profile; 8 x Selecon PC; 1 x grandMA 2 Ultralight desk; 1 x Avolites Pearl 2010 desk; 1 x focusHAND
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