LOUISVILLE, KY — The Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts, in Louisville, features five Midas mixing consoles (Venice 320, XL200, Heritage 1000, Heritage 2000, Heritage 3000), and recently added a rack of four Klark Teknik DN1248 Plus active analog microphone splitters to its equipment list. An additional rack with a single DN1248 Plus is also on hand. Head audio engineer at the center is Ted Subotky; David Doukas is audio department manager. "We handle everything from presidential conventions to rock concerts to lectures," says Doukas, "along with a handful of annual television broadcasts, so we need a mic splitter to deliver reliability, high sound quality and flexibility."
Doukas and Subotky assembled four DN1248 Plus splitters in a custom rack with high-end multi-connectors. The rack is wired with all four sets of 48 outputs interconnected, ready for splitting into any number of FOH, monitor, recording and multi-purpose mic configurations. Also included is a rack-mounted powered monitor, configured to PFL any of the 48 splitter channels utilizing the Solo Link feature of the DN1248 Plus splitter.
"I'm definitely an analog person," Doukas adds, "and it makes sense to have the same level of 'rider-friendly' sound quality we have in our consoles in our splitter rack. Analog is ideal for this application–warm sound and plenty of headroom."
Pictured above: Ted Subotky, Head audio engineer at the Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts, with Midas & KT equipment.
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