Mid-July saw health & lifestyle products company Herbalife hold four day Extravaganzas in Italy and Sweden, with up to 13,000 enthusiastic delegates at each. Featuring high production values, Yamaha digital mixing consoles ensured that the audio side of both events went according to plan.
With the motto ‘We Make It Happen’, the Avesco Group is a group of production service companies with a common culture, each an expert in its field and trusted completely by its clients. One of Avesco’s key global components is Creative Technology, whose UK audio arm, Dimension Audio, naturally shares the same philosophy of innovation, flair and technical excellence as the rest of the Avesco companies. Little wonder, then, that Dimension relies on an inventory of Yamaha digital consoles to deliver perfect sound at every event it works on.
Taking place in Belfort, eastern France, the Festival International de Musique Universitaire (FIMU) is a family-orientated event that takes place right across the city. This year, for the first time, the festival’s amplified stages all exclusively featured Yamaha digital mixing consoles.
Children’s television favourite Peppa Pig is currently on a major UK tour, bringing a first experience of theatre to thousands of toddlers and pre-school children. Coping with an inherently noisy audience without having volume levels too high is a tricky balancing act, but one which front of house engineer Colin Allen and a Yamaha LS9 console are well in command of.
Established in 1992, the German Phonographic Academy’s Echo Awards has become one of Europe’s most prestigious recording industry events. The winners of the pop music categories are announced in March and, this year, four Yamaha digital mixing consoles were on hand to bring the speeches and live performances to an international television audience.
The UK summer festival season is nearly upon us and, as always, there will be literally hundreds of Yamaha digital mixing consoles on duty in fields, parks and old airfields up and down the country. To ensure as many visiting band engineers as possible are up to speed with Yamaha technology, the company is running a series of technical training sessions in early June.
In amongst all the hype that surrounded singer Susan Boyle, it’s sometimes overlooked that she didn’t actually win the 2009 series of televised talent show Britain’s Got Talent. That honour went to dance troupe Diversity, which has just completed a highly successful UK tour with a Yamaha LS9 mixing both front of house and monitors.
SSE Audio Group will, as always, provide equipment and crew to many of the UK and Ireland’s highest profile festivals this year. But this is the first year the company is going ‘all digital’ at festival monitor positions, a decision made possible by the acquisition of additional Yamaha PM5D-RH consoles.
