Regional Dutch broadcaster Omrop Fryslan has purchased a Midas Heritage 1000 and two Klark Teknik Square ONE Dynamics units for its new OB truck from local distributor, Midas Consoles Benelux.
The Friesland-based broadcaster covers a wide range of events, including sports and live classical, orchestral, rock and pop music concerts, both for radio and audio for TV broadcasts.
??It was important that our new truck was multifunctional, with all the facilities we need for the diversity of jobs we cover on board, says Martin Wijbenga, audio coordinator at Omrop Fryslan. ??The choice of H1000 wasn't very difficult. We had been using a Midas XL2 in our old truck for 18 years, and it never let us down. When we decided to build a new truck we looked at many different consoles, analogue and digital, but from the beginning the H1000 felt right, and had all features we needed, particularly the 10 auxes, 10 subgroups and 10 VCA groups.
??Coming from an XL2, all our engineers can operate the H1000 almost straight away - a big plus! Furthermore, the new console has to work for another 18 years, so quality was a big issue. In our opinion a lot of the digital consoles on the market will not last this long in a moving truck, but we expect the H1000 to do this with no problem. And then there is the sound quality: digital gets better and better, but analogue is still the best! The H1000 has great EQ and lots of headroom. We asked Midas to put in a few fader start options which they were happy to do, and makes our lives a lot easier.
One of the first jobs for the new truck was the Oerol festival on one of the Friesland islands, where Omrop Fryslan broadcast a live radio programme every day featuring a mix of reporters from all over the island, live music and audience interaction.
Midas
Midas has been designing and manufacturing live performance mixing consoles for the worldâ??s most demanding sound engineers, performers and production rental companies since the early 1970s.
The evolution of Midas consoles throughout the 30-year history of this classic marque has always paralleled, and often led, increasingly sophisticated audio innovations for the world-wide entertainment technology industry. Raising the standards of sonic quality through continual research and development has always been - and still remains - our overall aim.
Equally important to us is the design and implementation of many new areas of control functionality and user-friendly desk operation to anticipate and accommodate the rapidly changing and expanding needs of audio professionals who specify Midas consoles for their major tours, festivals, international events, broadcast projects and prestigious fixed installations.
The Midas design pedigree has, since our birth, been founded upon a track record of achieving a unique symbiosis with working sound engineers around the planet - engineers who respect and endorse our proven technology in the light of their responsibilities to their internationally-based clients who are themselves the leading lights of our industry.
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