Phantom Makes a Korean Move

Cadac's long-standing association with Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera continues with the latest production scheduled to open in Korea on 2 December 2001. Phantom is being staged at the LG Arts Center by The Really Useful Group of Australia, in conjunction with local entertainment company Zemiro. Production sound engineer Greg Pink is responsible for all the engineering aspects of the show's sound system, which has been jointly supplied by Orbital Sound of London and the LG Arts Center. The system includes a new 31-input Cadac J-Type Live Production Console, equipped with six Programmable Group and three Programmable Auxiliary modules. Phantom's track record encompasses some 18 countries and 99 cities, playing to audiences of over 58 million to date: the Korean production follows in the footsteps of a number of major musicals staged at LG Arts Center, which is also the permanent residence of a Cadac F-Type Live Production Console.

Commenting on the new production, Greg Pink told us: "Normally we would bring an entire system into a venue, but for this production we were asked to use the console installed at the theatre. This is the first time we have used two different Cadac consoles, and due to the complexity of 'Phantom', it has been necessary to link them in a non-conventional way. Cadac provided audio bus breakout cables to enable me to link only selected parts of the two consoles, including Matrix injects on the F-Type which are not normally available on this console. SAM's new 'remote control' facility made programming the two consoles much easier - with the F-Type controlling the J-Type computers. This has proved very successful and will certainly be of use in the future."

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