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Spant celebrates 50 years with Yamaha QL consoles

In 1969, ‘t Spant was established as the first theatre in Bussum, a small town 30 km from Amsterdam. ‘t Spant was replaced by a new building in 1980. It was refurbished and renamed simply Spant in the 2000s.

It now hosts a wide range of theatre, live music and television productions, as well as conventions and other corporate events. One of the few unsubsidised theatres in the Netherlands, it is celebrating its golden anniversary with a new, completely updated Yamaha digital mixing system.

Spant has two theatres, the 780-seat Podium 1 and 275-seat Podium 2. It hosts around 100 theatre performances and 200 conferences and other events each year. Most productions use Spant’s own technical inventory. For many years, the sound in Podium 1 was mixed on a Yamaha M7CL digital mixing console and on an 01V96 in Podium 2. When upgrading the audio system was planned for the end of 2018, Spant technical manager Marcel Scheewe and head of sound Jan-Willem van Vorst chose Yamaha again.

Scheewe, van Vorst and sound engineer Frans Grollé looked at a number of options, choosing a system of two Yamaha QL5s and a QL1, two Rio1608-D2 and one Rio3224-D2 I/O units and two SWP1-16MMF switches. The consoles and I/O units are used interchangeably throughout the Spant complex on a fully redundant Dante network.

Dutch Yamaha dealer Sales-All supplied and helped to install the Yamaha equipment and Dante cabling through the building to the centrally-located switches.

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