The 5000m2 Copenhagen venue has been a focus of Denmark's quest to become one of the leading lights in Scandinavian music, the 1800-capacity main hall playing host to some of the city's highest profile concerts, with the smaller three allowing a wide range of performances.
Already equipped with three DiGiCo D5s, the addition of an SD7 to the Koncerthuset has allowed more complex productions to be staged.
"Although the D5s have been performing very well, we needed a console with a lot more outputs for in-ear monitors, Aviom systems and Roland M-48 personal mixers, as well as FX," says DR audio engineer Robert R°hr. "We had no reason to change platform within DR and the SD7 is already a familiar console with many sound engineers in Denmark."
The new console's first job was a January awards event, which featured eight live rock bands during a 90 minute live-on-air television show.
"All the bands were touring at the time, and they all came with their own FOH and monitor engineers," says Robert R°hr. "The monitor console was a rented SD8 and the continuity console was one of the in-house D5s. It went very smoothly, the extent of the SD7's inputs meant that it easily coped with the number of bands. The engineers were familiar with DiGiCo, so we had no problems."
Directly after this was the seven show run of live television shows for the Danish X Factor. Here R°hr manned the SD7, doing Front-of-House, IEMs, M-48s and Aviom all on the same console.
"We had two of the new 192 kHz SD-Racks (running at 48kHz) with 112 in and 112 outs to the console," he says. "12 stereo channels of in-ears, 16 stereo channels plus talkback including microphones with Optogates for the band and a 16 mono channel Aviom system for the symphony orchestra.
"The PA, front-fills and side-fills were fed from the SD7 matrix and we used a lot of onboard FX - using the SD7 meant that we didn't have to bring in any outboard. It's a complicated show and using snapshots is a must, but the SD7 meant that we could do everything we needed without having to compromise or hire in any additional equipment."
(Jim Evans)
