The Heritage 1000 has been installed into De Doelen's main concert hall, the 2,200-seater Grote Zaal, although it was supplied with a touring package, so in fact the desk can be moved into any room within the venue as required. Sander Zijlstra, head of sound at De Doelen, said. "We host over 600 concerts a year here, and that means a lot of visiting engineers," he said. "The advantage of having a Midas console as your house desk means that 99% of engineers are instantly familiar with the control surface, and therefore at ease. They know it's going to sound great, and I've yet to meet anyone who would actually turn their nose up at working on a Midas. For the majority, it would be their first choice anyway. In terms of choosing the Heritage 1000, for me it still offers the best solution when you need automation in a compact format to go hand in hand with great audio quality. We have everything here from 200-piece orchestras to world music to rock and roll to musicals, so versatility is important to us. And we don't have the space for a huge console sometimes it is required in some of our smaller rooms so the Heritage 1000 was the perfect compromise."
In a separate sale, MCH also delivered eight Klark Teknik DN360s and a Midas Venice 320 to 013 in Tilburg.
(Lee Baldock)
