Martin Audio helps Ministry of Sound in his thirty years of music

With the installation of MLA systems Martin Audio, Sound engineering RG Jones has deployed in the O2 Arena (United Kingdom) Audio technology for the company's thirty -year concert Ministry of Sound.

With a concert in O2 Arena (United Kingdom), The London multimedia entertainment company and nightclubs Ministry of Sound He has celebrated his thirty years of dance music, in which London Symphony Orchestra, With his musicians accompanied by Paul Oakenfold and other guests have played their songs.

The show Ministry of Sound classical presents three decades of dance offered his followers a tour through the dance anthem of the past. The characteristic sound of Martin Audio, Present in clubs around the world of this company, was contributed by sound engineering RG Jones and mixed by Phil Wright.

Coalition Presents, company that produced the event in collaboration with the musical entrepreneur Raymond Gubbay, RG Jones deployed eighteen MLA systems, Martin Audio's flagship, On each side of the stage.

With a configuration similar to the one deployed for the musical THE WAR OF THE WORLDS (War of the worlds), presented at the same enclosure, RG Jones use twelve mla compact hanging for the outfill For each side of the stage.

To this were added sixteen subgraves MLX In a broad cardioid configuration, With a central space of 2 M for a outgoing scenic platform, surrounded by a circular screen where the DJs acted. As front filling, eight units were arranged DD12, along with some enclosures MLA Mini.

The components were selected by Jack Bowcher, of RG Jones, y Sam Millen He dealt with the preparation, Racks assembly, Network display (Under a structure Dante y AES), next to Doug Hunt, as direct engineer.

“We have collaborated to get a PA system with a great sound -Millen explains- using Merlins (The Martin Audio's Digital Speaker Management System) to have more outputs that allow us to have control over the system. Then we align the PA and adjust the entire system ". All this provided a perfect environment for Phil Wright to mix the sound on a console of 96 canales.

Among other challenges and being the first time that the sound engineer works at the O2 Arena, and in front of 18.000 personas, "Although it was an action with a very high sound level, With four DJs, We had to ensure that the orchestra remained the main element -remembered -. Local promoters feared we would have reached the highest level, Since Paul Oakenfold reached him relatively soon, But the production went up when the orchestra entered ".

Regarding the use of MLA systems, "We manage it to avoid a lot slapback using the function Hard Avoid, present in him software Display, And the direct/reverberated sound ratio was amazing ”, duck.

The orchestra had Aural intra monitoring, And most of the instruments were captured with microphones Core 4099 of DPA. “The combination between them and the PA was fantastic,” he says -. Despite the proximity to the PA system, We got a huge amount of rejection at the back of MLA, which meant that it could comfortably mix at 105db without feedback. The crowd shouted at 102db, So I had to put the show on top of that ".

For this sound engineer, The power offered by the MLA/mlx combination implied that “it had another 15DB (In the bedroom) If I needed them; crazy. When installing a really large system and using it below its power we get a totally visceral response, able to hit you in the center of the chest ".

It was also represented Focusrite, Martin Audio Matrix Company, With your solution RedNet Audio-over-IP, An analog interface A6RKA For Dante who sent the signal to the intra -Aural headphones Shure PSM1000.

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