BRITISH MUSEUM REPEATS ITS SQUARE ONE ORDER

Glen Smith Audio has returned to the British Museum to install a second Midas Verona console in the Stevenson Theatre, a 150-capacity lecture hall at the heart of the BM’s conferencing facilities in London.

Last autumn, Glen Smith recommended a 32-channel Verona for the adjacent BP Lecture Theatre, and such has been its success, the Museum has repeated its order for a smaller 24-channel console.

“We just replicated the system we have next door,” says Museum sound engineer Dave Hogan. “Compared to the console we’re taking out of service, the Verona offers a significant general improvement in sound quality and better gain before feedback. We can control everything through the desk, all the loudspeaker configurations we have in the theatre – mono, stereo, surround. Before we had to use other devices to control the 5.1 surround sound, so now there’s absolutely no risk in the system and the set-up is a lot more controlled and user-friendly.”

The British Museum’s Stevenson Theatre hosts academic lectures, even live music performances, but is increasingly being made available for corporate hire. “There are a lot of busses, to carry hearing aid induction loop, camera feeds, etc, and they can all be fed separately now. There’s a lot more flexibility in the new system.”

Shuttlesound, the distributor of Midas in the UK, also supplied Glen Smith Audio with a new Klark-Teknik Square One dynamics unit. Two such units are already in use in the BP Lecture Theatre; in the Stevenson, where multiple microphones are in use, it will be used as a compressor and gate.

Photo caption: British Museum sound engineer, Dave Hogan, with his Verona

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