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From recording, broadcast, postproduction and A/V
Live at Chelsea concerts
The recent Live at Chelsea concert series took place over five nights in June within the courtyard of London’s historic Royal Hospital Chelsea, attracting audiences of more than 4,000 each evening. Providing the sound reinforcement was UK rental company 22live, who employed a comprehensive Martin Audio system comprising WPC main arrays, Torus and WPS fills.
Gorillaz Mountain World Tour
A world tour that includes not just the Gorillaz live band, but guest performers at each show, The Mountain World Tour will play festivals across Europe this summer before heading to North and South America in the autumn. Throughout, Entec Sound & Light are providing a comprehensive audio package and additional crew.
The Oracle according to K-Pop
K-Pop music champion SM Entertainment has placed a new Solid State Logic Oracle mixing desk in the BigShot Studio at its facility in Seoul, South Korea. GearLounge, SSL’s distribution partner in South Korea, supplied the console and carried out the integration.
Spectera advances at ESC
As official audio supplier to host broadcaster ORF for this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, Sennheiser deployed its largest Spectera set-up to date at Vienna’s Stadthalle, including manufacturing samples of the yet to be launched Spectera handheld transmitter.
Embassy Studios
Embassy Studios has opened its doors in Midtown Manhattan’s Engineering Building on West 39th Street, a new faility offering a multi-room studio environment designed around hybrid production workflows, a networked audio infrastructure and immersive mixing capabilities.