Meyer Sound Has the Answer for Drei ???
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Anchored by a potent Meyer Sound system with MICA and M'elodie line array loudspeakers, Drei??? was a live touring rendition of an immensely popular series of German radio plays based on the American juvenile detective novels. After an earlier, smaller-scale tour proved wildly successful, performers portraying the three intrepid investigators were booked for a 2009 tour in venues throughout Germany holding multigenerational audiences of up to 13,000 avid fans. An immersive multimedia tour, Die Drei ??? Und Der Seltsame Wecker—LIVE AND TICKING involved sophisticated lighting, a foley artist on stage, and a multichannel sound system. The tour's producers, Münster, Germany-based Bucardo GmbH, enlisted the mb-media Engineering and Design of Hamburg to handle the technical requirements, with the POOL Group GmbH of Emsdetten implementing the complete production. Although the sound system configuration varied by location, the core setup comprised two hangs of 12 MICA line array loudspeakers per side, with eight M'elodie line array loudspeakers as outfill. An additional eight UPM-1P and six UPA-1P loudspeakers supplied near- and center-fill. Six more hangs, each with up to 20 M1D (10 each directing to front and back), along with UltraSeries loudspeakers as downfill, provided the multipoint channels. Bass power was supplied by 700-HP subwoofers, with processing and signal distribution handled by a Galileo loudspeaker management system comprising three Galileo 616 processors. FOH engineer Thorsten Maier of mb-media found the Meyer Sound self-powered loudspeakers to be remarkably mixer-friendly. "After System Engineer Thomas Mundorf set up the system, I did not need much time for sound checks," Maier claims. "I found I could use most of the setup from previous shows, except for a few specific feedback frequencies and some artistic decisions." Once shows were underway, Maier was pleasantly surprised with the results. "The Meyer Sound components exhibited perfect voice intelligibility," he maintains, "even with up to seven different channels playing simultaneously and with audio clips mixed with the voices." While the multichannel systems primarily provided diffuse atmospheric soundscapes, the main systems—consisting of seamlessly transitioning Meyer Sound loudspeakers of different series—supplied the clear, perfectly time-aligned audio essential for transparent intelligibility in all seats. In addition to Maier and Mundorf, other key members of the tour's sound team included technical director Andreas Barth of mb-media, monitor technician Christian Käufl, and the experienced crew from the POOL Group GmbH including sound technicians Frank Uhlig and Benjamin Stillecke.
January, 2010 |
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