Yamaha's new CL5 consoles, present at the Benicassim International Festival 2012

The FIB 2012, Benicàssim International Festival, held between the 12 and the 15 July, has turned to Yamaha Commercial Audio's new CL5 Series digital consoles to take advantage of the advanced connectivity capabilities of these mixing consoles.

Just one month after the unveiling of the new CL5 console and the new RIO 3224Ds from Yamaha, the Benicassim Festival has once again relied on the systems of the Japanese audio brand for each of the 3 Scenarios (Wonders, Trident and Fiberclub). The FIB's Sound Coordinator, Jose María Rosillo, Reviewed: "I think it's a very big step forward in the digital console environment, providing new faculties that further strengthen its standardization in the digital table market".

At the Festival, the following were used: 4 Yamaha PM5RH consoles on the Maravillas stage through the Fluge company, in charge of the assembly and technical realization of the event. For its part, were used 2 PM5RH consoles for the Trident stage (Foh) and 2 Yamaha CL5 consoles with 64 RIO channels in each, accompanied by 2 consolas Yamaha M7CL48 V.3, for the Fiberclub. In this case, it was the company Musical Pae that was in charge of the assembly and technical realization of the event.

The new CL5 delivered the reliability expected of them, ofreciendo un feedback a nivel de sonoridad y manejo cada uno de los técnicos de dentro y fuera del entorno local muy positivo referente al manejo más que conocido por todos basado en los sistemas Centralogic, providing a new, very transparent sonority of their preamps, together with a dynamic level of sonority never seen before, as well as offering a range of premium processing, as standard, que permite dar distinto color y matices a las mezclas (Rupert Neve, Pulteq, Urei, Etc).

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