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Japanese Jazz Star Takako Afuso Features with an all EV, Midas and KT Sound System
Renowned Japanese jazz vocalist and Electro-Voice RE510 microphone endorser Takako Afuso celebrated the release of her new album Mabui No Uta at Tokyo Kitazawa Town Hall on September 21st, joined by a superb band including a host of musicians from her two prior hit recordings.
Sound reinforcement for the sold-out event was an all-Bosch Communications Systems affair, with a plethora of Electro-Voice microphones, various state-of-the-art EV loudspeakers powered by new TG and CP amplifiers, with Midas mixing consoles and Klark Teknik digital signal processing and equalization.
Takako Afuso is esteemed by jazz critics and her peers alike as an artist with a sublime ‘once in a generation’ talent, an honor reflected in her audience’s rapt response to her two hour set, which ranged from soft ballads to up-tempo jazz numbers. The reproduction of Afuso’s voice through her RE510 condenser mic was outstanding; every nuance, every expression and every breath came across clearly, and the crowd was genuinely moved.
The spread of EV mics across the backline and instrumentation ensured Afuso’s band sounded equally superb at the input stage; that sonic warmth and expression was writ large in the house via inimitable Midas preamps (in the Siena at FOH) and super-compact, high performance XLE line array loudspeakers, augmented by SxA760 powered subs. New Phoenix series monitors delivered their industry-leading balance of performance and power onstage.
23rd October 2007
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