A feature of this historic, 1700-seat theatre is its excellent acoustics, so any new Front of House console had to match the purity of sound. The SD7T does just that and, with its significant processing power and ease of use, has brought many other advantages.
"We specified the SD7T for its flexibility and good sound, while the enormously powerful cue list, combined with the aliases, is just what we need for theatre productions and musicals," says Joerg Humer, one of the theatre's two chief sound engineers.
"We needed a powerful desk with a small footprint and SD7T proved to be just the right tool," adds Joerg's fellow chief sound engineer Andreas Ivancsics. "Compared to other consoles, you get a lot more for your money with the SD7T. In fact, for me no other product offers comparable processing power, channel and auxiliary count.
"The fact that you have no external DSP racks, but get double power supplies, double DSPs and double computers inside a console just 1.5 m wide speaks for itself. And on top of all that, it's very cool."
Supplied by DiGiCo's Austrian distributor, TON Eichinger Professional Sound Systems, it was a straightforward matter to configure the console with the Theatre's existing PA, all speakers being run via the SD7's on-board matrix.
(Jim Evans)
