PRO6 Rocks Adelaide

Osmond Electronics have been putting their new Midas PRO6 system through its paces in recent weeks with various gigs. The PRO6 has seen action at monitors at the Thebarton Theatre with local Hip Hop act Funkoars and front of house at the Bundaleer Forrest fine music weekend featuring the Adelaide symphony orchestra.

The PRO6 also saw action at the annual Clipsal 500 after race concerts. The Clipsal 500 is a touring car street race in the Adelaide CBD. Ten years ago the race was introduced to provide local petrol heads with replacement for the Formula 1 race that moved to Melbourne. During those years an after race concert was held to help dissipate the crowds to allow public transport to cope with the crowds. The success of the after race concert featuring international, national and local acts is such that it now attracts as many fans as the car race.

This year the bill included such local bands as Pete Murray, Wolfmother, Lee Kernighan, Gyroscope and the Living End amongst others. The system featured the PRO6 at front of house with a Heritage 3000 sitting beside it as an analogue alternative. The system had the XL8 DL431 input split box at its centre providing a digital split off the ‘A’ pre-amp with the analogue split being fed to the Heritage 3000. At monitors a XL3 took up the analogue split off the ‘B’ preamp of the DL431s. This then allowed completely independent control of the mic pre-amps for both front of house and monitors while also providing a full set of active splits. The PRO6 at FOH also featured a Klark Teknik DN9331 fader remote for instant access to the internal graphic equalisers in the system.

As for the last ten years the Osmond’s team received glowing reports for the audio performance of the show which also featured networked KT DN9848E controllers over front house with the control data being fed through the PRO6 Ethernet tunnel. The DN9848E controllers were fed digitally via AES/EBU from the PRO6 system providing a pure signal path. In addition DN9848s were used across the monitors and other KT kit such as DN360s, DN504, DN514 and DN8000 also saw service. Osmond production manager Mike Longmire was impressed with the performance of the PRO6 and noted how quickly visiting engineers picked up the navigation of the system, and of course it’s a Midas and the best sounding live mixing console on the planet.

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Photo: Stage looking over the Heritage 3000 at FOH

Photo: Stage looking over the PRO6 at FOH

Photo: Stage at night with PRO6 and H3000 sitting side by side

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