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Yamaha system installed at historic German open air theatre

Performances at the outdoor theatre in Ötigheim, near Karlsruhe (Germany), attract up to 100,000 visitors each year. Owning company Volksschauspiele Ötigheim chose to install a new Yamaha mixing and audio management system for the 2018 season.

Throughout the summer, shows are staged at the open air theatre, a former sand quarry which has 4000 covered seats and, it claims, the biggest permanent outdoor stage in Germany. For the past 15 years a pair of Yamaha 02R digital mixing consoles have been the backbone of the theatre’s audio system.

This year, they were replaced with a new system comprising two Yamaha CL5s, an MRX7-D matrix processor, Rio3224-D I/O unit and an RSIO64-D audio/Dante interface, fitted with Yamaha Mini-YGDAI cards for additional inputs and outputs. The system was specified, supplied and installed by Karlsruhe-based Rock Shop GmbH.

Two consoles were installed to separate the mixing of orchestra and other musicians on one and singers/actors on the other. They also provide full redundancy. Inputs to the system comprise 52 wireless microphone/instrument channels, plus further wired mic and instrument feeds.

The Front of House mix is routed to line array PA, while a Yamaha Nuage Nio500-A16 acts as output device for delivering up to 16 analogue wedge and in-ear monitor feeds. Signal distribution is managed by the MRX7-D, which also controls the time alignment for the different PA zones. A four input, eight output analogue broadcast feed is also provided.

(Photos: Jochen Klenk)

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