DBs Music has opened a new music technology training centre in partnership with Cornwall College, choosing GS-R24M recording mixers for four production suites and several ZED-10FX. An addition to DBs' existing Plymouth centre, the new facility offers a variety of new training programmes in Music Performance and Music Production, with plans to add university-level courses in the future. All four GS-R24 mixers have been installed into bespoke furniture, connected to 27" iMacs with Pro Tools and Logic. There are also a few small ZED-10FX mixers installed in their custom built live and performance rooms.
Mark Trewin, who is DBs' development director, commented, "When we looked at mixing solutions for our new studios in Cornwall there was really only one choice for us. The Allen & Heath GS-R24M mixers provide our learners with high quality functionality just as you would expect in a commercial recording facility."
Charitable organisation, Hannah's at Seale Hayne in Newton Abbot, has selected an iLive digital system for its new Yellow Room live music centre. Hannah's iLive system comprises an iLive-T112 Control Surface and iDR-48 MixRack with a KV2 speaker system, and manages an eclectic range of live shows as well as DJ events. All the profit made from the new venue goes straight to help fund the disabled children's charity, Dame Hannah Rogers Trust.
Finally, the specialist arts institution, University College Falmouth (UCF), has installed numerous A&H mixers in its high specification performance and rehearsal studios, practice rooms, and analogue and digital recording studio complex, including a GL2800, a couple of MixWizards, and most recently several ZED compact USB mixers.
An iLive system, comprising an iLive-T112 Control Surface and iDR-48 MixRack, has also been installed in the University College's Performance Centre, one of the most sophisticated facilities of its kind in Europe dedicated to delivering innovative performance degree programmes in music, theatre, dance, management and production as well as holding a public, year-round contemporary performance programme.
(Jim Evans)
