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TiMax installed for Wolkenturm Midsummer Nights

The architecturally futuristic Wolkenturm’s open-air stage is akin to a giant sculpture, nestled in the park of Austria’s 700-year old Grafenegg Castle. The stage, designed by architects ‘The Next Enterprise’, reaches some 15-metres to the height of the treetops. With a requirement for subtle audio reinforcement to complement the venue’s natural acoustic, Wolkenturm’s Head of Sound Andreas Dröscher turned to TiMax.

He was introduced to TiMax during a seminar workshop by Out Board’s Dave Haydon at a working open-house summer barbecue hosted by Austrian Distributor Atec Pro Audio.  A trial at the Wolkenturm Arena, with live orchestra on stage and TiMax programmed by Out Board’s Robin Whittaker, demonstrated to him that TiMax could deliver transparent, fully spatialised source-oriented reinforcement (SOR) for the regular Tonkünstler Orchestra Niederosterreich and other ensembles that grace the stage throughout the summer festival season.

Five ambient mic sources plus up to 14 spot mics were fed direct from the Digico console to the TiMax SoundHub via its MADI64 interface. TiMax in turn sent individual delay-matrixed loudspeaker feeds back via the console to the D&B sound system comprising an LCR configuration of Y-Series line-arrays plus six E8 front fills.

Via this setup, the orchestra’s localisation was distributed across ten individual zones - five downstage and five midstage - to provide spatialised amplification which matched the orchestra’s natural acoustic panorama. Dröscher was impressed with the results TiMax achieved for the Midsummer Nights Gala opening event, (complete with Elgar and fireworks), such that the Wolkenturm venue purchased it immediately from Atec Pro Audio for the rest of the summer season and future engagements.

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