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providers are merely combining technical components from different producers. We therefore see few competitors in this arena.” The two digital pieces of equipment that followed were installed at the Opera House in the summer of 2011, ready for the premier of Les Miserable on 16 September that showcased the new digital technology for the production. Firstly, a new digital mixing console. Sound Engineer at Malmö Opera House, Svante Axbacke explained the requirements for the console: “We wanted a high-end mixing desk with lots of channels and processing because when we do musicals here we have about 110 - 120 inputs and about 30 outputs so we needed something that could handle that. The requirements immediately scaled it down to just a few brands and we looked at all of those.” Svante and the rest of the audio team opted for a DiGiCo SD7, a lifetime away from the very first mixer Malmö Opera House owned - a Siemans with 10 inputs, 10 outputs and weighing 400kg. The SD7 features a Stealth mixing and routing engine - exclusive to DiGiCo products - for digital processing and is equipped with Super FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) technology, making this desk one of the most capable in its class. The SD7 workstation
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comprises three 15-inch touch screens and a total of 52 faders, while multicoloured display switches makes access to different layers and functions a quick and simple task, ideal for a musical theatre. “We decided DiGiCo was the best for us, and a big part of that was they have a dedicated theatre software specialised for what we do here. It makes everything easy to programme. And of course, it sounds good,” continued Svante. The new DiGiCo console arrived at the same time as the TTA Stagetracker FX technology, and together they make a fine combination of tools. The aim of the Stagetracker FX technology is to create the illusion that vocals are delivered directly from the singers and actors themselves, rather than through the sound system. Each actor on stage is fitted with a Stagetracker FX TurboTag, a RF transmitter device that allows the actors movement on stage to be tracked. Malmö currently has a total of 16 TurboTags. The data created by the movement of the actor is transmitted to the RadioEye, which is mounted above the stage at the Opera House. The RadioEye calculates the raw data positions itself, and this data
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