Now one of Europe’s major technical production companies, Rent-All is the result of a 25-year endeavour on the part of Theo van Workum. Committed to investing in the most modern equipment, the Netherlands-based company has recently purchased six Yamaha CL series digital consoles.

Rent-All purchased three CL3s, two CL1s and a CL5, along with three Rio3224-D and six Rio1608-D I/O units. ‘We always want to have the most modern technology available in stock and, because we work on many different types and sizes of production, when the CL series was launched we took the decision to invest in all three sizes of console,’ van Workum explains.

Rent-All operates four offices across the Netherlands and Germany, and serves many theatrical and live production tours for Dutch artists, including Sensation, Andre Rieu and Waylon.

With the consoles safely delivered, Theo asked Yamaha’s Ruben van der Goor and Jan Prins to visit both Rent-All offices in the Netherlands to deliver advanced training sessions. These covered a wide range of subjects under two main headings – console-specific subjects included the user-interface, effects, multitracking with Nuendo Live and DVS, special features, software tools and compatibility. Complementing these were more theoretical subjects included working with Dante, redundancy, latency, switch demands and settings, system design rules, signal flows, network topology and word clock.

‘It made sense to help engineers to get the best use from the CL series consoles, so asking Ruben and Jan to come and help train them was a common-sense solution,’ says van Workum.

Also new on van Workum’s agenda, Sales-All is a rapidly-expanding equipment sales company that stocks a wide range of Yamaha Commercial Audio products, alongside those of other sound and lighting manufacturers. As a result, it is quickly establishing itself as a ‘go-to’ source for the Dutch production and installation market.

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