Avid VENUE | S6L Powers the Creative Mix For Broadway Hit A Bronx Tale
January 12 2017 - 4:14PM
Live sound console gives award-winning sound
designer Gareth Owen the processing power and pristine sound needed
to mix the demanding hit musical adaptation
Avid® (Nasdaq: AVID) today announced
that award-winning sound designer Gareth Owen is using Avid’s
flagship live sound system, Avid VENUE | S6L to mix the
Broadway musical theater production of A Bronx Tale at the Longacre
Theater in New York—the largest musical theater production to use
the powerful system to date. Powered by the MediaCentral® Platform,
the industry’s most open, tightly integrated and efficient platform
designed for media, Avid VENUE | S6L ensures that theater audiences
enjoy the best sound quality while providing sound designers like
Owen with the processing capabilities to create the most compelling
musical theater experience possible.
Directed by two-time Academy Award® winner Robert De Niro and
four-time Tony Award® winner Jerry Zaks, A Bronx Tale is based on
the critically acclaimed play that inspired the now classic film.
While the musical adaptation is the biggest musical theater
production to use Avid VENUE | S6L to date, the mix position is one
of the smallest on Broadway for a full-blown musical, taking up
just eight seats, which includes the sound operator and all
equipment. Owen turned to a 32-fader Avid VENUE | S6L system with
three fully loaded Stage 64 I/O racks to support the 180 channels
needed for the demanding production.
Part of Avid’s comprehensive tools and workflow solutions to
create, distribute and optimize media, Avid VENUE | S6L enables
operators to mix faster and more easily through its custom fader
layouts and advanced touchscreen workflows, giving them immediate
hands-on access to the most important channels and functions in
each scene.
“Avid VENUE | S6L can become whatever you need it to be,” said
Owen. “It’s quite revolutionary the way you can just bring up
anything you want onto the encoders and custom fader banks,
including plug-ins. Nobody else is doing that as impressively or as
effectively. I love the fact that there’s enough processing on
board to be able to explore ideas that traditionally I haven’t been
able to do because of hardware or software limitations. I now have
the resources to explore my creative ideas.”
The purity of Avid VENUE | S6L’s new preamplifier design, 64-bit
processing, and 96 kHz sample rate have even influenced Owen’s
microphone choices. He explains, “It sort of sent me on a voyage of
investigation to discover other things in my signal path that that
weren’t as clean and clear as I thought they were, because the S6L
is so transparent and so clean that it’s exposing things that in
the past I’ve never noticed.”
“Avid’s preeminent customer community of award-winning sound
designers and engineers are choosing Avid VENUE | S6L to deliver
the world’s premiere musical theatre productions,” said Tom
Cordiner, Senior Vice President of Global Sales at Avid. “Avid
VENUE | S6L gives Gareth Owen the pristine sound and creative
options he needs to create a unique audio experience for A Bronx
Tale.”
Avid VENUE | S6L is a fully modular, flexible live sound mixing
system that delivers best-in-class functionality for a range of
live sound mixing applications, including front-of-house, monitor,
broadcast, theater, and more. Like all Avid VENUE systems, S6L
provides seamless Pro Tools® integration and on-board
industry-standard plug-ins, with higher track counts and more
processing power than ever before. With a comprehensive array of
network and I/O offerings, users can easily configure the system to
meet the demands of any type of show, from live concerts and
festivals to Broadway shows.
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