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San Francisco Hilton Adds MixWizard to Event AV Portfolio
The San Francisco Hilton Hotel and Towers has added an Allen & Heath MixWizard WZ3 16:2 mixing console to its array of special event audioproduction equipment, which already includes a 24 mono/8 stereo inputAllen & Heath GL4000 and a 24-channel GL4. The hotel chose the MixWizard for its compact size, flexibility and ease of set-up.
"We're getting quite a fleet of Allen & Heath desks now and I'm excited about using the new MixWizard," comments ballroom engineer, John Fagan. "It's a real space saver; we bought a case with it as well, so it goes in, tilts up, and off we go! That's what it's all about now, a quick set-up and a quick strike."
The San Francisco Hilton Hotel and Towers offers a wide selection of ballrooms and conference spaces to handle its busy events' schedule, from the 30,000sq.ft. Grand Ballroom - which seats 3300 in a theatrical configuration - down to the smallest meeting room. With the hotel's engineers expected to handle diverse events from medical conferences to musical performances to political fundraisers, ease of set-up and use, as well as a host of flexible features are important criteria for the hotel when selecting equipment, and especially mixing consoles.
Allen & Heath consoles offer some significant benefits, says Fagan, in particular the number of auxiliary sends on the GL series desks. "What we really love about them is the aux sends. We always need a lot. There are always people coming up and asking for a record feed, not to mention a sub feed, and even our own record feeds. We need all we can get."
As a pioneer of the dual function concept, Allen & Heath has designed the GL series to operate as both a FOH and a monitor console. All 10 aux sends on the GL4000, for example, may be controlled on long-throw faders, all with inserts and metering, while also offering a stereo sidefill mix and an output for the engineer's monitor speaker. "We've done monitor mixes for a lot of bands that have come in," says Fagan. "The consoles are just a charm to work with, especially the monitor wedge output - that's a big plus about the desk."
The one factor that leads the hotel back to Allen & Heath time after time, he reports, is that the consoles have provided trouble free service. "We haven't had any problems with them, that's the best thing. I like something solid, where you don't have to worry about it."
In picture: the San Francisco Hilton Hotel and Towers' ballroom engineer, John Fagan, with the venue's new Allen & Heath MixWizard WZ3 16:2 mixing console.
23rd June 2005
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