Rated among Europe’s leading artistic and academic institutions, the Norwegian Academy of Music has recently completed an upgrade of it light, audio and A/V systems. The Oslo facility includes recording studios and concert halls, which facilitate over 300 concerts a year.

Handled by leading Scandinavian distributor LydRommet, both of the academy’s concert halls have been equipped with Soundcraft Vi3000 consoles, each connected to a Soundcraft Vi stagebox located in a central machine room. The main hall has been fitted with eight JBL VerTec VT4886 subcompact line array loudspeakers and two VT4883 subwoofers on each side of the stage, with four VT4886 loudspeakers comprising a centre cluster. A pair of JBL VTX F12 loudspeakers, along with four F18S subwoofers are used at the floor level, as well as monitors and multi-purpose loudspeakers from the JBL VP series. The system is powered by nine Crown I-Tech amplifiers, and monitored and processed by JBL HiQnet Performance Manager software.

According to Project Engineer Stig Gunnar Ringen, high-quality, user-driven solutions for teaching and concerts were main goals of the project: ‘The installation has made the concert halls much more flexible and suited for the broad diversity of musical expressions we accommodate, without coming at the expense of the unique acoustics of the halls,’ he says.

The Vi3000 uses the new internal DSP SpiderCore based on the Studer Vista 1 engine, with Soundcraft’s Vi v4.8 operating software, adding a fourth 24-channel fader layer to improve access to the console’s 96 input channels. The surface operation and layout is similar to other Vi Series consoles, providing a familiar feel while offering expanded functionality. The Vi3000 features upgraded microphone preamps and 40-bit Floating Point DSP.

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