Having recently completed a technical overhaul, Moscow’s Stanislavsky Theatre has reopened its doors with a sound system which includes a TiMax2 SoundHub-S48 audio delay-matrix plus a four-Sensor/20-Tag TiMax Tracker performer tracking system.
Under the name of Electrotheatre – an hommage to one of the first pre-revolutionary Russian movie theatres that occupied the same building in 1915 – the theatre’s current art director Boris Yukhananov aims to combine avant-garde traditions with classical Russian theatre art. The theatre has three main performance spaces, including its foyer, which is often used for lectures, book presentations, discussions and children’s plays.
With all equipment supplied by Moscow’s Audio Solutions, the TiMax Soundhub is located in the Transformer Hall, so named as it is the main performance space: ‘[It] can be transformed according to the requirements of the current show,’ Electrotheatre Stanislavsky Chief Sound Engineer Alexander Mikhlin explains. ‘We present much contemporary art, so a lot of modern technology is used. TiMax helps us to make animated surround audio effects, to have a lot of different sound sources, to create dynamic three-dimensional soundfields. And with TiMax Tracker fully automating the performers’ radio-mic localisation we are able to achieve a high degree of realism and intimacy in our productions.’
TiMax SoundHub is inserted between a Yamaha CL5 digital mixing desk front of house, receiving signal via either Dante or AES – or a combination of the two. The TiMax outputs via AES to a Fohhn Audio Airea loudspeaker system via five AM-40 Master modules to 28 LX-20 ASX and a further ten AS10-ASX loudspeakers distributed throughout the auditorium.
‘We use TiMax on the majority of performances,’ Mikhlin says. ‘The audience appreciates the sound clarity and our director here appreciates the boundless possibilities TiMax gives him.’ We are very pleased with the TiMax SoundHub and also feel the TiMax Tracker localisation adds a special transparent quality to our performers’ amplified voices.’
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