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Rotterdam Concert Hall Gets the Midas Touch
Midas Consoles Holland, the new distribution model for Midas and Klark Teknik products in the Netherlands, continues to go from strength to strength since its launch in January.
April saw a particularly busy month for the company, whose sales included a 32-channel Heritage 1000 console to the internationally renowned concert hall and congress centre De Doelen as well as a Venice 320 and eight of Klark Teknik’s industry standard DN360 EQ devices to another performance venue, 013 in Tilburg.
The Heritage 1000 has been installed into De Doelen’s main concert hall, the 2,200-seater Grote Zaal, although it was supplied with a touring package, so in fact the desk can be moved into any room within the De Doelen as required. Sander Zijlstra, head of sound at De Doelen, explained his choice. “We host over 600 concerts a year here, and that means a lot of visiting engineers,” he said. “The advantage of having a Midas console as your house desk means that 99% of engineers are instantly familiar with the
control surface, and therefore at ease. They know itıs going to sound great, and I’ve yet to meet anyone who would actually turn their nose up at working on a Midas. For the majority, it would be their first choice anyway. In terms of choosing the Heritage 1000, for me it still offers the best solution when you need automation in a compact format to go hand in hand with great audio quality. We have everything here from 200-piece orchestras to world music to rock and roll to musicals, so versatility is important to us. And we donıt have the space for a huge console sometimes it is required in some of our smaller rooms so the Heritage 1000 was the perfect compromise.”
In a separate sale, MCH also delivered eight Klark Teknik DN360s and a Midas Venice 320 to 013 in Tilburg. After extensive testing and comparison, the technicians of this leading Dutch performance venue opted for DN360 both for its international recognition and unequalled audio performance. The Venice 320 was selected for much the same criteria - superlative audio performance in an internationally recognised package.
4th May 2004
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