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Swiss Acoustic design company Studio Equipment, run by industry veteran Terry Nelson, was recently contracted to provide the sound, staging and screen for the presentation of the new Sony 4k digital cinema projector. The launch was held during the Screen International/Sony party at the Château de la Napoule at this year¹s Cannes film festival, and Nelson chose a Telex Communications setup based around a Midas Venice console, Klark Teknik Helix digital equalisers and Electro-Voice surround sound system for the prestigious event.
Studio Equipment, which was commissioned for the project by Anna Valley (UK), treated the room acoustically to give it the characteristics of a proper screening room before setting up an Electro-Voice Plasma surround speaker system. At the centre of this, Nelson used a Midas Venice 160 console as his monitor controller plus a processing rack of three Klark Teknik Helix DN9340 equalisers run by V3.7 Elgar software and a DN9344 slave.
"In order to cater for overall system level plus speech control should microphones be required, we chose the Midas Venice 160," explains Nelson. "It has a very clean signal path and is suitable for the demanding requirements of cinema sound, as well as featuring a flexible EQ on the stereo line channels. Modern cinema soundtracks are composed of many different elements and can go from a whisper to a bang in milliseconds!"
As the audio source was AES/EBU from DVS servers, the three Helix master units were fitted with AES/EBU interface modules. Two DN9340s controlled the LCR and LFE channels, with the third acting as a D/A converter for the stereo surround channels and master for Ls and Rs. The analogue outputs were then fed into an encoder to create LCR surround channels and the four outputs of the encoder were fed into the DN9344 to EQ the Ls, CsLs, CsRs and Rs. Real Time Analysis was carried out by a Klark Teknik DN6000 audio analyser.
"Even though we had to set up and do the gig in one day, I am pleased to say that all went very well and that we received nothing but compliments, which is always a nice situation," says Nelson.
Nelson is a member of IBC Technical Resources, of which Klark Teknik is a staunch supporter. The Helix system has become central to the IBC technical installations from the outset, which has resulted in extensive user feedback to the manufacturer. Helix is used for room equalisation in the IBC’s conference rooms during its annual Amsterdam convention, as well as system EQ for the Digital Cinema installation in the auditorium and surround presentation rooms.
17th June 2005
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