Varied Venues Choose Soundcraft Equipment
Dec 12, 2001 12:00 PM
The Oakville Centre for the Performing arts received the firstSoundcraft Series FOUR console sold in Canada. The 500-seat prosceniumCentre is located about a half hour from downtown Toronto. There areover 260 performances there each year, including music, theater, comedyand dance productions, a demanding job for a sound system.
The Series FOUR is a 48-mono-channel model with four stereo inputchannels. It fits in with the rest of the theater’s system includingBSS Soundweb processing, QSC PLX amplification and EV X-Arrayloudspeakers. The new FOUR provides FOH mixing for everything fromlocal productions to international music stars. Its light weight (125pounds lighter than the Series FIVE) makes it very manageable for thestaff and allows flexibility for visiting artists.
Also in Soundcraft news, MerleFest, a renowned acoustic musicfestival at Wilkes Community College in Wilesboro, North Carolina,purchased two Soundcraft K2 mixing consoles from SE Systems ofGreensboro, North Carolina.
SE Systems president Cliff Miller explained the choice: “The K2s area good fit for WCC because they enable the school to run four monitorwedges and a pair of stereo sidefills fromthe front-of-house position,which very often eliminates the need for a dedicated mitor console.Also, having range switches on each of the mono input channels allowsthe engineers to flip between dedicated CLR and quarter-inch inputs fordifferent setups without requiring a lot of repatching; many otherconsoles in the same price range don’t offer that.” One of the two K2spurchased by the college is permanently installed in the house soundbooth of the John A. Walker Community Center’s 1130-seat auditorium.The other is housed in a road case, brought out for miscellaneousconcerts and events around campus.
