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Amnesia adds second KV2 loudspeaker system
Perhaps Ibiza’s most iconic club, Amnesia opened in 1974 to become home to some of the best-known electronic music artists from around the world. After lying dormant for two years, the venue opened to a packed-out night in late May, which ran for 18 hours. Amnesia favourites such as Mar-T and Jamie Jones were in attendance, as were the club’s famed dancers, decked out in shiny metallic gear.
The night was made more special by the arrival of a new KV2 Audio sound system in the Main Room – a much-anticipated follow up to a KV2 system installed in the Terrace in 2019. The brief was simple – to deliver the same audio experience in the club’s Main Room as the Terrace.
Holophonix takes the stage at Théâtre de l’Archevêché
Developed specifically for, and installed by, Amadeus at the Théâtre de l’Archevêché in Aix-en-Provence in Southern France, a system of 35 microphones processed by Holophonix and more than 50 loudspeakers were used for the live orchestra, choir and stage performers for Mozart’s Idomeneo during the annual summer Aix-en-Provence Festival of Opera.
Musical director and conductor of the Pygmalion Orchestra and Choir, Raphaël Pichon, had approached Amadeus directly to design and implement an audio technology system combining active acoustics and sound spatialisation for the performance.
Hui Cultural Wunvzhou Resort opens in Jiangxi
Located in the Chinese province of Jiangxi, the newly opened Wunvzhou Resort offers bothy a tourist destination and a cultural centre, and includes a range of hotels, restaurants, shops and attractions, all themed on the cultural achievements of China’s Hui Muslim ethnoreligious group.
Before the resort’s official opening in July, Chinese A/V solutions provider EZPro was assigned the task of supplying and installing the audio system for the resort’s regular large-scale live performances of Encounter with Wuyuan – performed on a floating stage – in a 3,000-seat outdoor arena.
Dean St opens UK’s first Atmos mix/mastering room
Two years after transforming its main Studio 1 control room into Dolby Atmos recording and mixing room, London’s Dean St Studios is turning its second studio into the UK’s first dedicated mastering facility incorporating Dolby Atmos mixing.
PMC monitoring features in both rooms, with the new suite equipped with a 9.1.4 surround system comprising PMC’s MB3-XBD-A monitors for left and right main channels, MB3S-A for the centre channel and Ci Series Ci65 monitors for surround and height channels.
Mansion Sound raises the bar for US studios
Located in Branson, Missouri, Mansion Sound is a multimillion-dollar custom designed studio complex created specifically for audio production in music, film, television and postproduction. Both of its studios feature Solid State Logic mixing systems and all-Genelec 7.1.4 Dolby Atmos immersive monitoring.
Studio A has the most powerful Genelec Dolby Atmos system in the United States to date, and the largest and most powerful Solid State Logic Duality Fuse 96-channel SuperAnalogue mixing console yet built – the first of its kind to be installed anywhere in the world.