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PA Mixer Powers College Education
The award-winning Further and Higher Education College in Truro, Cornwall, has acquired an Allen & Heath powered PA20-CP mixer for itsgrowing performing arts courses, to help students of pop and jazz music, and dance and theatre, cultivate their sound engineering skills.
The College, which already owns Allen & Heath GL2 and MixWizard mixing desks, will use the new console in its new performing arts building, which houses state-of-the-art sound and recording booths, practice rooms, lecture rooms and a x capacity theatre.
Students will use the PA20-CP as part of the PA system for a major new musical evening to be held in the Helford Theatre. The event will be open to the public and students will be operating the mixer in a real, live situation, providing sound reinforcement for a variety of performances from small bands and solo singers to dancers and theatrical enactments. The Theatre also hosts performances from external theatre companies.
Students on pop music and jazz courses will have the chance to take the portable mixer to gigs around the county. The mixer will also be used for various courses at Summer School, run in July, and from September, the College will be running a Technical Theatre course, where the PA mixer will be used by students to learn rudimentary sound engineering tips through practical experience.
"I think Allen & Heath's PA20-CP will really shine as a mixer for our big band gigs and musical theatre events," comments the College's sound technician, Paul Joines.
"The mixer has so many great features, particularly the built-in amp, which produces the best sound quality; we have used the mixer with our speakers and you can really tell the difference - it's awesome! Also, the EQ on the master outputs is a godsend, it is now set permanently for our acoustics, leaving other equipment free to use on individual voices or instruments. Finally, the reverb and effects section produces a very warm sound and I like the way it has its own master fader, rather than having to route back through a stereo channel."
24th June 2004
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