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48m2 PUY DU FOU
Company: Merging Location: Vendée, France
Les Epesses in the heart of the Vendée region of France has become one of the country’s most visited locations, with more than 1.5 million people going in search of a historical experience every year. The original Cinéscénie was opened as far back as 1978 and its continued success led to the nearby Grand Parc opening in 1989. Entertaining this many people every day requires technology that is reliable and very repeatable and there is no reason to change anything as long as it contin- ues to work. That is until products or formats become obsolete or an enhancement to a favourite show needs some more advanced features. Puy du Fou run several shows from different historical periods and two of them had quite similar technical requirements for the music playback and for 10 years, this had been very satisfactorily handled by Fostex D2424LV hard disk players. These are now out of production so the search has been on for more than a year for a suitable replacement. During 2012, Jocelyn Bouchet from Puy du Fou came across an article on Merging Technologies’ Ovation in an industry journal and Jean-Marie Roussel from Auvisys was contacted to demonstrate the operation of the software. That proved that Ovation offered all the features to replace the Fostex units and offered other benefits besides but some evidence of how it really performed was needed. Olivier Montagnon from specialist Merging dealer 44.1 was able to help with that as the company had previously supplied many Ovation units to another famous theme park in France. Olivier Moser and Dominique Char- leux met the team from Puy du Fou and were able to assure them that Ovation was a system that could really be relied upon to operate 24/7 and was very simple to operate but offered a huge range of options. This endorsement convinced Jocelyn and his team that this was the right choice. Puy du Fou decided to install a total of five Ovation Gold Native systems loaded on to the rack mounted servers and using 16 I/O RME HDSPAES32 PCIe cards and USB Sync cards for the timecode connection to Ovation and the Pyramix editing software. Olivier Montagnon supplied and installed the systems and trained the team on Pyramix operation. For Ovation training, Olivier Moser was able to share his expertise to ensure that the team understood the operation and control options on offer. The systems only went live at the end of May so the operators are becom- ing more familiar with Ovation every day, but it is difficult to experiment with new features when you have shows running continuously. It was very important that Ovation was compatible with the Médialon show control software which is a popular choice for many theme parks. In addition to interfacing with Ovation, Médialon controls the lights and effects for the whole show. The Knights of the Round Table has the audio output from the Ovations routed to the Yamaha 02R96 console which also takes the timecode and sends it to the Mé- dialon PC. All the show speaker systems in the Grand Parc are from L-Acoustics and in this case, the four main channels are driven by five KARAi units each and the three sub bass channels are handled by six SB18 units. The three surround channels have three KIVA and one KILO per track. The amplification uses a total of eight LA8 units for this set up.
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