RAINBOW CITY, AL — Gone are the days when corporate productions involved a simple slide show and hand-held microphone, so Dave Zammit, owner of Two Guys Audio Service, Inc (A Florida Corporation operating out of Rainbow City, Ala.), has recently added a new Soundcraft Vi6 digital live sound console to its inventory.
According to Zammit, “We used the Soundcraft Vi6 for the first time in late-January at IBM’s Lotusphere 2007, a weeklong corporate event, and it performed admirably and sounded excellent.”
“While digital offers a number of operational advantages,” Zammit concedes, “including recall of all front-panel and systems settings, I’ve never been a fan of the digital sound. But the new Soundcraft Vi6 has largely changed that. It’s a great addition to our systems inventory.”
Founded in 1998, Two Guys Audio Service provides sound systems for a wide range of clients and specializes in out-of-the-ordinary productions. “For Lotusphere 2007 we needed to cover a number of ballrooms at Disney World’s Dolphin Hotel and Resort, Orlando, as well as areas within the Swan Hotel.” The Vi6 large-format console served as the event’s main mixer, feeding different audience areas. “All in all, we were using six discrete sound systems linked together during the main event in the Dolphin Hotel, and a further four fed by an optical fiber link to the Swan Hotel for Lotus customers.”
Lotusphere is held annually to allow users of IBM’s technologies to hear the latest news of recent software developments. Several auditoriums, ballrooms and meeting rooms are interlinked to allow the company’s technical representatives to address one or more application-specific audiences. Using the Soundcraft Vi6, Zammit and his crew were able to quickly set up between eight and 10 basic submixes of the lavaliere, lectern and hand-held microphones, musical acts, video and other playback sources, and prepare different balances for various playback environments, as well as a dedicated record feed.
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