Press
September 2008
ETASound Ltd., have recently taken delivery of the first Soundcraft Vi4 & Vi6 digital mixing consoles in Wales. ETASound's relationship with Harman and later Sound technology has developed over many years, especially since the completion of the sound system installations at the O2 Arena in London, where the Harman brands were installed exclusively.
ETASound has a comprehensive stock of Harman based equipment across all ranges from AKG microphones, BSS Soundweb, dbx Driverack, JBL Loudspeakers, Crown amplification and Soundcraft digital and analogue mixing consoles.
October 2008
10th - 12th October
ETASound Ltd., recently
provided sound and broadcast facilities for the NBA basketball Europe Live event
at the O2 Arena in London. Over 16,200 people attended the game between the
Miami Heat and NY Jets. The event was also broadcast to over 200 countries
across the world.
ETA provided 3 digital
mixing consoles, DJ equipment, multiple radio microphone systems, broadcast
splits and press conference facilities along with a full engineering
crew.
9th - 11th
October
ETASound Ltd., provided
and operated the sound system for the Chester Players, 'The second coming' held
at the Anglican Cathedral in Liverpool.
The latest Soundcraft Vi4 digital desk and fibre multicore was used along
with JBL Vertec 4888DP line arrays and Shermann Audio Sub
speakers, monitors, AKG and 12 channels of sennheiser radio
microphones.
Westfield Shopping Centre, White
City, London
ETASound Ltd, has
supplied 1000 JBL control 26CT ceiling mounted loudspeakers to the latest
Westfield shopping Centre project, adjacent to the BBC Television
Centre in London. The speakers have been provided over a 6 month period and
modified to maintain the requirements of BS5839 part 8 for Voice Alarm
applications.
ETA Sound extends Harman armoury
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Eddie Thomas |
UK - Following a relationship with the 02 Arena extending back a decade (to its days as the Millennium Dome) experienced sound consultant and project manager, Eddie Thomas, has now extended his expertise to full-blown concert sound - with help from the Harman Pro brands.
Thomas's company ETA Sound remains under contract to 02 Arena management AEG, not only to provide auxiliary sound reinforcement for shows taking place in the Docklands complex's premier venues - such as the NHL and NBA events - but site-wide system maintenance and coverage for a raft of smaller events such as press conferences.
The original Millennium Dome and now both 02 Arena and the smaller Indigo2 have end-to-end Harman Pro systems (including JBL Vertec loudspeakers) operating on a CobraNet backbone running HiQnet. The latest addition to ETA's rental fleet has seen further investment both in JBL's premium line array system and Soundcraft's Vi6 and Vi4 digital mixing consoles.
"During the past 10 years I've got to know the people at Harman Pro UK, and now Sound Technology, very well. I felt the time was right to invest, and although I considered and reviewed other brands, we have such a fantastic relationship with Sound Technology that it was pointless looking elsewhere," said Thomas.
In the early part of this year ETA purchased a pair of Soundcraft MH2 analogue mixing consoles and later 16 x JBL 4887 Vertec line array enclosures, with 4881 sub bass cabinets, powered by Crown IT8000 amplifiers - providing the opportunity to cover larger events in conjunction with the existing sound equipment inventory.
Now ETA Sound has added 12 Crown-powered Vertec 4888DP three-way line array loudspeakers, enabling the VT4887s to take on side-fill duties where necessary.
The investment in Vertec will continue into 2009 with further cabinet additions.
At the same time Thomas has invested in the new generation Soundcraft consoles, with the Studer Vistonics II interface.
(Jim Evans)
(27 October 2008)