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‘Aladdin’ Hamburg with TiMax wins LEA Best Show award

Disney’s first European rollout of their Broadway hit ‘Aladdin’ has won the LEA Show of the Year award for 2016. Sponsored by PRG, the award ceremony took place at the Frankfurt Festhalle in April, with other nominees including the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest in Austria.

Sound design was by Ken Travis who designed the Tony Award-winning Broadway show now approaching its third year, supported by associate Alex Hawthorn, and once again utilized the TiMax SoundHub with TiMax Tracker radar-based realtime automation. ‘Aladdin’ is playing at Hamburg’s Neue Flora Theatre whose producer-owners, Stage Entertainment BV, purchased two TiMax2 SoundHub-S32 audio show control processors and a seven-Sensor/20-Tag TiMax Tracker system, which was commissioned on-site by Out Board’s Dave Haydon in late 2015.

The TiMax SoundHub receives AES inputs from a Digico SD7T and sends AES feeds to D&B 30D and 10D amps for the Y-Series LCR prosc system and a variety of E numbers for delays and surrounds. Performers wear miniature TT Tags transmitting bursts of UWB noise in the 6-8 Ghz range, which are picked up by seven TT Sensors distributed around the stage and auditorium.

A server computer analyses Angle Of Arrival and Time Difference Of Arrival and maps this data onto spatial zone information sent to the TiMax SoundHub which then morphs actors’ radio mics between delay-matrix Image Definitions, using precedence to make the amplified voices appear to come from their exact stage location, and following them as they move around stage. The multiple TT Sensors provide layers of redundancy so that the effect is consistent regardless of any body blocking or obstruction from the show’s frequently moving scenery.

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