The deal was the brainchild of managing director Axel Nagtegaal, who explains: "I wanted to find a way of giving rental companies who recognized the quality of the Klark Teknik DN370 the opportunity to purchase them by generating money from the sale of their other brand EQs. In most cases, it would have been extremely difficult to offload these units second-hand in any other way."
When the offer ended, Nagtegaal was staggered to find that 110 rental companies and theatres had taken advantage of the offer, trading in a total of 195 units. "We were expecting the offer to be popular, but its huge success took us by surprise, with 50 units sold within 24 hours, and the rest in two weeks," he says. "We worked in close co-operation with Klark Teknik to give a huge group of potential customers seeking quality equalizers access to the DN370 via this unique deal, and we're delighted with the results."
An additional spin-off from the offer has been that clients taking advantage of it have gone on to order further DN370s at list price for their inventories, while the guys at Midas Consoles Holland had a lot of fun when it came to disposing of the amnestied EQs (see photo).
Features of the DN370 include long-throw 45mm faders; proportional-Q filters which provide optimum control without undesirable audio artifacts; gain control with +6dB/-infinity range and centre detent at unity gain to allow effective muting of channels; a range switch which selects ±6dB or ±12dB operation for the faders, with LED indication; a channel bypass switch with LED indication (the unit also provides automatic relay bypass in the event of power failure); sweepable high-pass filter with 20Hz to 500Hz range; sweepable low-pass filter with 2kHz to 20kHz range; two sweepable notch filters per channel, with overlapping frequency ranges of 20Hz to 2kHz and 200Hz to 20kHz; and a bypass switch with status LEDs for quick comparison of applied EQ.
(Lee Baldock)
