The premier destination for the visual and performing arts in Southwest Florida, Artis—Naples is ‘driven to inspire, educate and entertain by presenting world-class events that enrich the diverse community’. The Kimberly K Querrey and Louis A Simpson Cultural Campus in Naples include two performance halls – the Frances Pew Hayes Hall and the Myra J Daniels Pavilion – as well as The Baker Museum and the Stabile Education building.
Most recently, the 283-seat Daniels Pavilion, whose range of programming includes music, film, dance, comedy, lectures and exhibitions featuring internationally recognised artists, received an upgrade in the form of a new DiGiCo Quantum225 console, used for both FOH and monitor mixing.
‘The Daniels Pavilion hosts a really wide range of performances, from lectures to chamber music to rock bands, so our console has to be as versatile as the venue,’ says Ryan Young, Head Audio Engineer at Artis—Naples for the past three years.
Young says the addition of the Quantum225 is part of a series of upgrades that will also soon see the venue’s PA system replaced: ‘The intent was to upgrade and modernise our sound, and we are already very much a DiGiCo campus,’ he says, noting the SD12 console installed at the neighbouring Frances Pew Hayes Hall and the SD9 that acts as a recording and programme playback mixer there. ‘We also wanted to have more flexible routing, so we could, for instance, run monitors from front of house. With so many different types of music and other performances here, versatility is the key, and the Quantum225 definitely has that.’
Young further says that he and his staff, including A2 Taylor Freydberg, have only just begun exploring the possibilities of the console’s Mustard and Spice Rack processing. ‘We immediately found that it sounds great and that it’s extremely user-friendly for venues like ours,’ he says. ‘We’re looking forward to finding out everything that it can do that we never had the capability of before.’
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