The newly renovated five-star Hotel Indonesia Kempinski in Jakarta was the venue for the American Rhapsody gala concert, with 40-piece Jakarta Concert Orchestra and Batavia Madrigal Singers led by Indonesia’s most accomplished conductor of western classical music, Avip Priatna.
Innovason Indonesia distributor, LaMesa, was on hand to lend technical support, and provided monitor engineer, Ahmad Rapii for the event: 'The stage was very wide, so the monitor engineer couldn’t actually see the whole stage himself,’ says LaMesa’s Didi Kartanegara. ‘So we had the stage manager stationed next to him who in turn received a signal from the crew communicator on stage if there were any levels that needed to be adjusted. However, even with this somewhat less than ideal set-up, we didn’t have any problems at all since the console was very well laid out with instant access to all the faders. We set it up so that we had the 12 aux sends on the Smart Panel and kept the rest of the faders for the instruments.’
Megaswara didn’t want to take any risks on a prestigious event that involved so many musicians in a difficult setting: ‘We were managing a 40-piece orchestra with an additional choir and several soloists. That gave us a total input count of 80 channels,’ says Kartanegara. ‘We routed the 56 microphone inputs via the remote DioCore stagebox, and the remaining 24 channels were connected locally at the back of the Eclipse. We used 16 line in/outs located directly on the DSP card itself and a further eight mic inputs via an SI-8D3 mic input module. There were 12 outputs used to feed in-ears, stage fill and floor monitors to the pianist, conductor, choir and soloists.
Kartanegara also reports that the Eclipse’s Mars onboard digital multitrack recorder was put to good use: ‘We recorded the whole show using Mars and got fantastic 64-track professional quality audio with virtually just a click of the mouse. We had a separate 17-inch LCD to monitor the Mars screen, which worked very well. The whole system was rock solid from every point of view, and the rental company was extremely impressed. This was the first time they’d really seen Eclipse in action, so the guys were able to see firsthand the fast and easy operation with 48 configurable faders. The large symphony set up was easily handled by the Eclipse, and as a result it was an enjoyable experience for the engineer and musicians alike.’
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