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. 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."
Michopoulos adds, "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.
(Jim Evans)
