Studio Equipment was mandated by Shooting Partners UK, who handled the technical organisation of the transmission, to supervise the sound for the Palladium event. Left-Centre-Right signals were created via a TriField decoder from the stereo mix coming from Berlin, then the Left-Centre-Right-Sub bass outputs were fed into a DN9344 Helix slave for system EQ and final adjustments to the mix to suit the venue. The DN9344 was controlled by a PC running Elgar V3.07 remote control software (available as a free download from www.klarkteknik.com).
"The ability of the Helix to combine notch and low/high pass filters together with parametric and graphic EQ sections rose to the occasion admirably," says Nelson. "More than 4,000 happy punters grooved away as if Robbie himself was in the hall - even down to enthusiastic applause and the waving of sparklers!"
Nelson also travelled to Paris during October to handle the sound for the HD Auditorium, a new event for the annual SATIS show, which provided an added boost to the introduction of HDTV. A conference room at the Paris Expo was treated acoustically and fitted out with a 5.1 cinema system, which included a plethora of audio processing equipment.
Central to the system EQ was a DN9344 Helix controlled via Klark Teknik's Elgar proprietary software for the screen channels and LFE, with a KT DN3600 used for the surrounds. "Once again, the precision of the DN9344 allowed precise system alignment in what turned out to be a very tight screening schedule," says Nelson.
In both instances, system measurements were carried out using a Klark Teknik DN6000 analyser.
(Lee Baldock)
