Last year saw Mick Potter specifying two XRMs for use on the monitor system for the West End hit Bombay Dreams with sound supplier Orbital Sound. Greg Clarke, an independent Sound Designer, had seen these in action and was impressed enough to specify them for the current RSC touring season of Merry Wives of Windsor and Corialanus.
The photos show the console in action at The Swan Theatre in Stratford with regional tour sound supervisor Steve Mayo. Steve comments: "The XRM was an ideal choice for this job, combining all the features of a large monitor console in a 10U space. The sound quality is excellent and the way it is packaged make it very easy to integrate into our system - the other thing is there's no other console like it!"
Housed in a compact 10 rack-space package, the Crest XRM can provide up to 12 independent mono mixes, or up to six stereo mixes for stereo ‘in-ear’ monitoring systems. The XRM takes up minimal space in a sound control booth, and is small enough to travel as carry-on luggage.
Featuring the superior audio performance and road-rugged construction of Crest's popular X-Rack Series mixers, the XRM includes a 20-input microphone splitter system with ground-lift switches on each input channel. In addition to 12 mix bus outputs with high pass filters, insert system and balanced XLR outputs, the XRM features four band equalization with high-mid and low-mid sweep EQ along with -18dB per octave high pass filters on all input channels.
Other recent XRM users include Tourtech on the current Coldplay tour and Capital Sound on the recent Kylie US Jaunt.
(Lee Baldock)
