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Mountbatten Festival Of Music - February 2005
The Mountbatten Festival is an annual showcase for the bands of Her Majesties Royal Marines attracting a sell out crowd for each of the 3 concerts at the Royal Albert Hall. This year the diverse programme ranged from the film theme "Independence Day" to the Vivaldi Lute Concerto
Once again Sound By Design were contracted to provide both PA and recording support (for Chevron Recording) to the event. With over 70 channels split from stage to FOH and recording the patchbay was looking rather strained!
Sound By Design combined forces with Chevron Recording to deploy a large range of high quality microphones on the military band including Symphotec, AKG, Royer Ribbon and the rarely spotted and extremely valuable Neumann M150. Soloists were covered with Schoeps MK4 microphones along the front of the stage and 5 vocalists were fitted with Trantec S5000 radio lapels and Sennheiser MKE2 Gold headworns.
At front-of-house, engineer Phil Wright used a Midas Heritage 2000 with a Midas Venice 240 as a submixer. Extensive use was made of the scene recall facilities of the main desk, with over 40 scenes programmed for the show. The speaker system used was our installed Meyer MSL-2A/ UPA-1C cluster with E.M. Acoustics M-12S' on monitoring duties.
Griff Hewis was employed in a recording engineer role to assist Colour Sergeant Ken Peers on the recording side of things. Three slings were rigged over the auditorium; an ambient sling, central Decca tree sling and stage sling for heavy brass/ percussion. A Pro Tools HD3 rig was utilised to track 48 channels with a Sony DMX-100 desk setup to create a monitor mix.
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