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Sound System Design & Consultancy.
GB Audio are happy to offer full technical planning or just a bit of helpful advice. GB Audio's experienced professional team install sound equipment for theatres, recording studios, churches, offices, concert halls and nightclubs. We take pride in providing a personal service, to a professional high standard of safety and neatness. We design and supply custom flying systems, trunking and cabling, meeting or exceeding statutory safety requirements and all covered by specialist insurance.Check out these recent projects:
Aberdeen Exhibition &
Conference Centre
sound system design and installation
Royal Lyceum Theatre
sound system design and installation
Dancebase sound system design and installation
Stand Comedy Club,
Glasgow and Edinburgh. sound system design and installation
Kilmarnock Palace
Theatre sound system
design and consultancy
Queen Margaret University College Pend Studio Theatre and Radio
Studio sound system design and installation
SEStran portable wireless conference microphone / PA
system
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Edinburgh's fantastic
dance facility has had a superb, new sound system installed in the
principal studio.
Based around the high definition Shermann GX501 loudspeakers and Yamaha amplification, the system has a mobile playback rack which can be plugged in at various positions in the studio or in the purpose built control room. Flexibility is the key. Low level utility panels around the room offer balanced ties lines and speaker outlets. High and low level speaker outlets are all patchable in the control room. |
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fixed bars on custom swivel brackets which allow blackouts to be draped
right across the ceiling below the bars. Blackouts are needed when the
space is being used for performance because it has a glass roof. This is a
fantastic feature during the daytime - filling the studio with natural
light and affording a superb view of Edinburgh Castle. The blackouts also
improve the naturally reverberant acoustic of the space.
Efficient use has been made of some existing playback equipment in order to keep the expenditure down. This Sound System Installation project was made possible by a donation from Walker Homes. Dancebase won the Scottish Building of the year (2002) award. Click here for Dancebase performances, classes and workshops programme. The 4 studios are also open for commercial hire. |
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Queen Margaret
University College - Drama Department Pend studio
theatre. The studio has been an empty space for years. Now it has been transformed into a fully working theatre by the installation of a suspended "trampoline" grid, lighting bars, a complete sound system and seating units. The whole project was managed in house by the Drama Department's Subject Leader - George Tarbuck.
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plenty of height, hence George's decision to mount four high level
speakers raked down at a severe angle on swivel brackets. The grid negates
the need for ladders or tower access and gives quick and safe access to
the sound and lighting rig.
The studio will be used in various formats so the seating, lighting and sound must all be flexible. There are low level utility panels in the four corners to allow connection of microphones and speakers. These are all patchable at the control position, along with several high level speaker outlets. An Allen & Heath GL2200 mixing console ensures a comprehensive, quiet and reliable front end of the system, with sub groups used as zone masters. Yamaha power amplifiers are also located in the control room - chosen for their quiet running fans and clean sound. with its flexible bussing system. The Gateway Main Theatre space makes use of a Yamaha GA24/12 Diversity Architecture mixing console for flexible control. The main loudspeaker system comprises four Shermann GX Cubs with BH118 subs. |
Summoned to The Palace
Kilmarnock's Palace Theatre
- complete sound system refit.The comprehensive new sound system, designed by Graham Bodenham and installed by Northern Light of Edinburgh, brings The Palace into the 21st Century and able to cope with the increasingly sophisticated technical demands of modern theatre productions.
Key elements of the system are a Shermann loudspeaker & amplifier system, a 32 channel Soundcraft K3 mixing console, Yamaha 03D digital mixing console, Sennheiser UHF wireless kits, and a Sennheiser Infrared system. Other kit in the new inventory includes AKG, Audio-Technica, Crown and Shure mics, Tascam MD & CD, Denon CD, Roland EQs and Yamaha effects. top
RADIO DAYS
Queen Margaret University College - Gateway Theatre - Scotland’s International Drama Centre; (formerly Scottish Television’s Central Edinburgh Studio).GB Audio were asked to design a radio production facility which could also operate as a basic recording studio. The control room is quite small and, with a typical education budget to work with, the function-to-size/price ratio had to be very high.
GB Audio’s Chief Designer Graham Bodenham and QMUC’s Subject Leader in Lighting & Sound, George Tarbuck came up with a neat system based around a Yamaha EMX2000 mixing desk. The compact Yamaha provides a comprehensive control surface for microphones, instruments, stereo line inputs and talkback plus a host of outputs to run control room monitors, studio playback monitors, two headphone circuits, tape routing and master output logging.
Wall mounted Denon SCM5K mini monitors are used in the control room with Tascam MD801 minidisc machines, Revox B77s, microphones and headphones by Audio-Technica. ATM multicores connect the studio and control room via simple patch panels.
The new location also houses a main theatre venue, studio spaces, workshops, classrooms and work stations and offers a comprehensive range of training in all theatre and production skills. top
STAND COMEDY CLUB
Expanding on the success of the original Stand Comedy Club in York Place, Edinburgh, Tommy Sheppard brought his hilarious stand-up format to a basement under the STUC building in Glasgow in 2000.
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The venue features acoustic
challenges from a low ceiling, split level seating areas and a noisy corner bar.
The sound system is 'voice optimised' so that it doesn't sound like a huge PA system or that horrible, unreal karaoke sound. Intimacy is the name of the game with voice reproduction that sounds like......well..... a voice. This is achieved with a central cluster of two Shermann VX175 side slung above the stage and a strategic spread of six diminutive Shermann DX100 speakers (see left), side slung with steel yokes directly from the ceiling. A Shure wireless mic, a Yamaha mixer and Yamaha power amp complete the system. Click here for more info on Shermann DX Series top |
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Wireless Conference Audio.
GB Audio recently supplied the Beyerdynamic MCWD50 portable wireless digital conference system to Edinburgh based SEStran (South East of Scotland Transport Partnership). The system comprises a number of wireless table microphone units with integral speakers, an automatic base controller and storage flightcase with built-in charging rack. As well as offering a very neat, stand-alone PA solution for meetings, the system also interfaces with and enhances the organisation's video-conferencing system. This sits well with two of SEStran's objectives: 1. Reduce the number of people commuting in single occupancy vehicles within South East Scotland – especially for journeys to and from Edinburgh; but also for journeys outwith the SEStran area. 2. Minimise the overall need for travel, especially by car. top |
Made to Measure.
GB Audio design and supply bespoke racks, frames and housings
for equipment of all shapes and sizes. We are happy to consider any installation
challenge and work with specialist fabricators to come up with engineering
solutions for your sound system installation. We also sell off-the-shelf
equipment protection
e.g. CP EMS, Kinsman
and SKB polycarbonate rack housings and inexpensive aluminium "camera" type cases in
various sizes. We have a good range of standard leads in stock and are happy to make up
special audio cables, looms, multicores, panels and
patchbays to your specification.
Environmental Sound.
GB
Audio have considerable experience in helping clients to deal with problems of
noise pollution and Environmental Heath Department license requirements. See Testing
Times.
Induction Loop
& Hearing Support systems.
GB Audio
design and supply Ampetronic
induction loops and
Sennheiser infra red
and Tourguide systems which can benefit the
hard-of-hearing. Systems can cover an entire room or can be limited to a counter
or box office. People can listen in by switching their hearing aid to the
"T" position or by using portable beltpacks with miniature headphones.
From October 2004, all public buildings have to be
fully accessible, including the provision of systems for the hard-of-hearing,
where appropriate.
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