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Capital raises the bar at BST
With headline artists including the Rolling Stones, Elton John and the Eagles on the bill at the 2022’s American Express presents BST Hyde Park, the sound needed to up its game in line with the ‘supercharged’ stage and backdrop at the AEG Live’s flagship event. Having been exclusive supplier of Martin Audio’s MLA since the event’s inception in 2013, Capital Sound responded with enhanced site coverage.
Taking note of the additional 5m height gain of Star Group’s new Titan stage, Capital extended the two main PA and side fill hangs and streamlined the 11 delay towers, introducing its recently acquired WPL scalable line array – the largest in the Wavefront Precision family. This resulted in 182 Martin Audio line array elements deployed at the event, as well as 44 subwoofers.
La Casamurada upgrades monitoring with The Ones
Spain’s La Casamurada residential studio has expanded its monitoring capabilities with a pair of Genelec’s The Ones 8361 three-way coaxial monitor loudspeakers.
Located in Penedès, Spain, the facility promises ‘a unique experience’ for artists, exploiting the acoustic of its historic location in a former wine cellar at the base of a defensive tower in a 12th century fortified farmhouse, paired with a thoroughly modern technical environment.
Wembley Stadium upgrades sound systems with d&b
After two years of sports and music events lost to the coronavirus pandemic, London’s 90,000-seat Wembley Stadium is preparing for its longest concert season yet. Driven by the need to remain world-class, the stadium is continuously being updated – including its audio systems.
‘One area that we knew would add value to our guests and clients was upgrading the bowl audio,’ says Stadium Director, Liam Boylan. ‘The previous system was not specifically designed to be used for the delivery of music and that was becoming increasingly apparent; we wanted to offer our clients a system that they would never consider not using.
Cavatina Hall opens in Poland’s Bielsko-Biała
Poland’s new Cavatina Hall is the first concert hall in the country to be built and managed entirely from private funds. Located in the city of Bielsko-Biała, the unique multi-functional building combines office and cultural spaces set over six storeys in more than 9,000sq-m of space, and includes a recording studio as well as a 1,000-seat concert hall.
The concert hall has a modern A/V infrastructure designed around an Optocore backbone that supports an L-Acoustics L-ISA Immersive Hyperreal sound system and a pair of roving DiGiCo Quantum 338 mixing consoles, and boasts Poland’s largest RTS Roameo wireless intercom system.
RAK’s immersive action
Throughout its 46 years of operation, RAK Studios has hosted music pioneers ranging from David Bowie and Pink Floyd to Arctic Monkeys. Now, the London facility is moving forward again with a top-to-bottom rebuild of its historic Studio 4 into a Gold Standard space for immersive mixing, complete with scalable 9.1.4 monitoring based around Genelec’s The Ones monitors.
RAK had been in discussions over an immersive space for a number of years, with Studio 4 earmarked for the project from the outset. Flexibility was key to it being able to adapt to any project that came through its doors. ‘In a project like this, you either do it properly, or you don’t do it at all,’ says Studio Manager, Emma Townsend. ‘We had to tear the whole thing down and start from an empty shell.’