panLab Console, a brand new spatial audio answer from Innovate Audio, has enabled a encompass sound efficiency at London’s Southbank Centre on 4 November, when cellist and composer Peter Gregson introduced a efficiency of his 2021 album, Patina, within the centre’s Queen Elizabeth Corridor Lobby.
Patina was written and recorded for spatial audio, so a stay encompass sound presentation was a pure step – albeit one which required a contact of audio innovation. Referred to as Patina 360, the presentation, by which Gregson was accompanied by the Carducci String Quartet, was deliberate by sound engineer Brett Cox, with assist from one of many Southbank Centre’s senior sound technicians, Tony Birch.
Constructing on its confirmed panLab 3 software program, Innovate Audio’s panLab Console, launched on the PLASA Present in September (the place it was given a commendation by the PLASA Awards judges) provides quick and correct spatial audio performance to a variety of stay mixing consoles. Birch had been concerned within the growth of panLab Console after seeing a put up from Innovate Audio’s Dan Higgott on social media, and had huge plans for its future use, so it was an apparent selection for this challenge.
A big and dynamic space, the Lobby has a capability for 900 visitors and is used for a variety of occasions together with awards ceremonies, membership nights, receptions and product launches. The plan for Patina 360 was to ship a encompass sound format with the all-important peak layer.
With Higgott creating the 3D consumer interface, which is an important characteristic of panLab Console, Birch made plans to realize the specified immersive sound reinforcement with the brand new system, finally having the ability to conduct an illustration.
On the coronary heart of the sound system was a Yamaha QL5 mixer. For the efficiency, Birch created a standard 7.1 encompass sound system (minus the centre channel) consisting of Meyer Sound M’elodie (the ultracompact high-power curvilinear array cupboard) and UPJ -1Ps (the compact 10” speaker). As well as, he included a ‘peak’ layer of six miniature Meyer MM-4 audio system, pointing upwards into six of the enduring inverted pyramids within the Lobby’s ceiling.
Summing up, Birch says, “On this and most different spatial audio situations, with panLab Console you may get the supply to be the place it must be, in a short time. Whereas there’s nothing new in sending to a multidimensional speaker system, there’s something new within the pace and accuracy with which panLab Console can obtain this. And importantly, like its sibling panLab 3, panLab Console is just not a crucial element in your workflow: you’ll be able to park your sources the place they must be, save that to a console scene and switch panLab Console off in the event you’re not utilizing it for any sequenced or stay motion.”
