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Midas and Klark Teknik Upgrade Historic Athens Theatre
One of Athens’ few traditional theatres, the Pallas is a gem in the middle of this vibrant city. Built during the 1930s, the Pallas retains its art deco splendour while having just been subjected to a major overhaul. This has included the installation of Midas consoles and Klark Teknik signal processing equipment throughout its three venues, supplied by Greek distributor Omikron Control. The whole procedure was overseen by Omikron’s sound system designer Vangelis Petridis.
The Pallas Theatre itself, a 1,500-capacity traditional auditorium, now boasts a Heritage 2000 at front of house, with Klark Teknik Square ONE Dynamics, Square ONE EQ and a DN500 Plus dual compressor/limiter. The adjacent Aliki Theatre has also been installed with a Midas H2000 while the new console in the Mikro Pallas is a Venice.
“It’s great to have the Heritage here, and I’m very happy with it,” says Pallas Theatre front of house engineer Kostos Michopoulos. “It is very user friendly, has great preamps and EQ, and allows me to hear everything very clearly throughout the entire frequency range. I especially like the choice of parametric EQ or shelving mode for the high and low filters. I’ve used it for classical performances with orchestras and the preamplification is fantastic. We have all sorts of events here, from classic and modern theatre and music through to large corporate events, and the H2000 adapts to all our uses of it very well. And of course visiting sound engineers are very happy to see it’s a Midas.”
Michopoulos is also quick to praise his Klark Teknik Square ONE Dynamics and EQ “They sound great; they are used a lot in combination with the desk. The new system is very well tuned - as is the actual building - but most people still want to use this equaliser because they love the sound it produces. The Square ONE dynamics is our main workhorse, and I find its compressor is particularly good for keyboards, bass, toms and kick drums, while for vocals I use the KT DN500 compressor/limiter.”
Among the first performances at the Pallas have been jazz concerts by Stanley Clarke, a French theatre festival with actors including Charlotte Rampling and Gerard Depardieu, and an avant garde modern dance choreographed by Dimitris Papaioannou, who was behind the 2004 Olympics Opening Ceremony.
In picture: Pallas Theatre engineer Marios Kallergis and FOH engineer Kostos Michopoulos with Omikron’s sound system designer Vangelis Petridis and the Midas H2000.
10th July 2007
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