Rental Pro's Mario Held (left) with Andreas Putz
Austria - Musikverein für Steiermark is the largest concert organiser in the Austrian city of Graz. It is currently celebrating 200 years of Musikverein Graz, and in mid June Rental Pro Austria deployed a DiGiCo SD8 for a spectacular performance, which featured Gustav Mahler's revered Symphony Number 8 as its finale.

The concert was performed by the Grazer Philharmonic Orchestra, one of Austria's best-known classical orchestras, plus 300 singers from the Choir of Opera Graz, Studio Choir of University of music and Performing Arts Graz and four smaller choirs.

"The concert at the Grazer Stadthalle was sold out," says Rental Pro Austria's Mario Held who, along with Andreas Putz, was also one of the two engineers working on this complex production. "We used a DiGiCo SD8 with a MADI Rack and Waves SoundGrid Server One to make sure that this world-class orchestra sounded brilliant in this venue."

With Mario and Andreas managing around 60 inputs from the MADI Rack, the key requirement was that the sound should never feel like it was reinforced. The SD8 helped them to achieve this.

"The client wanted balanced classical sound like you would achieve in an standard opera house," says Mario. "The benefit of using DiGiCo consoles is that we can always achieve absolutely great, smooth, non-coloured sound from them and this made the production easy for us, despite its complexity.

"With the help of our SD8s, our client, the 4,000 strong audience in the Grazer Stadthalle and we, as sound engineers, enjoyed this massive classic event from the very first to the very last minute."

(Jim Evans)


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