The venue houses a versatile, professional performance space that is also available to community, educational and professional organisations at favourable rates. It operates with a minimal technical crew, usually only two, and so a reliable wireless communications system is a necessity.
"Keeping in contact with our staff was becoming more of a problem especially with the dance school performances where you may have up to 300 children in the venue and only two technicians who are trying to run the lights, audio, fly things in and out while also supplying supervision and assistance to the venue and its guests," remarked Mick Crozier, production manager and head technician at the venue. "It became increasingly important to us to have communication wherever we were in the building.
"We looked at two-way radios but found it too confusing and uncomfortable wearing two headsets. We really needed something that would integrate with our existing comms systems so we started looking at professional wireless intercom systems."
This led Crozier to the Clear-Com Tempest2400 wireless intercom system that offers the convenience of untethered communication for mobile users, while providing the power, flexibility and audio quality of wired systems.
"Jands sent us a demo unit which we had running within twenty minutes," said Crozier. "It's one of the most straight forward systems that I have ever used, and even though we have a lot of thick concrete walls in the venue we still get very good coverage. We've found the Tempest2400 system to be exceedingly reliable and we haven't had one problem with it. It has been an outstanding addition to our venue - all our technical staff (and our client's technical staff) are thrilled at how our workflow has improved simply by being able communicate effectively."
Clear-Com Tempest2400 offers multi-modes of operations, with each mode providing varying level of communication flexibility and user capacity. Unlimited number of users is possible in split and shared modes. In normal mode, up to 10 BaseStations and five full-duplex wireless BeltStations can operate on one system with no frequency coordination required.
(Jim Evans)
