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Digico and Meyer Show their Colours with New Demo Facility
Sound engineers now have absolutely no excuse for not familiarising themselves with digital audio mixing because leading digital console manufacturer DiGiCo has opened three well-equipped demonstration rooms at its premises in Chessington.
With excellent national and international transport links, the facility is located close to London making it easy to reach. The DiGiCo consoles are complimented by high specification Meyer Sound PA systems, to ensure users have optimum sound quality at every level.
The three demonstrations are named after DiGiCo’s house colours - silver, black and blue. The biggest is the Silver Room which features a DiGiCo D5 console, stage with full AV facility, and a full 5.1 surround system comprising four Meyer Sound M1D ultra-compact curvilinear array loudspeakers per side, a central UPA-1P compact wide coverage loudspeaker, two 1PJ-1P compact VariO loudspeakers as rears, four UM-1P narrow coverage stage monitors, two USW-1P compact subwoofers and two USM-1P extended range narrow coverage stage monitors.
The facility has been custom designed by the DiGiCo team as the ideal setting for their master classes, but is also perfect for sound engineers who have already experienced DiGiCo consoles. The room is an excellent facility for setting up a live mix in a real but relaxed atmosphere. As much fine tuning as the engineer wants can be done, with the DiGiCo team on hand to offer advice and answer questions. Everything can then of course be saved to a USB storage device before going to the pressurised environment of a live show or tour.
The Black room is ideal for engineers who are new to DiGiCo desks and perhaps to digital mixing. Here a D5 console is allied to smaller systems of Meyer Sound UPM-1Ps and USM-1P subs. Of course, DiGiCo’s entire range of desks is catered for and the Blue room features a D1 console, also with Meyer UPM-1P and USM-1P subs.
Prior to the installation of the Meyer system, the new facility hosted DiGiCo’s first ‘White Gloves Master Class’. Over 100 new and current users were in attendance for the two-day event, which proved a major success.
“Being able to have a permanent demonstration area where engineers can come and work on our consoles has already proved a great bonus for both DiGiCo and our users,” comments DiGiCo marketing director David Webster. “The addition of the Meyer system means that we can offer a real life situation with loudspeaker system that is out in the field and members of the DiGiCo always on hand.”
More Master Classes are planned, as well as the demo rooms being available for booking on an individual basis.
19th September 2005
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