37th FIPP Congress : Old Billingsgate
FIPP World Magazine Congress is the largest and most high profile magazine event in the world and I was contracted by Whitespace Productions to design and manage the installation of all the sound systems used for this two day congress.
The venue for this event was Old Billingsgate fish market building in heart of the city of London. This unique space is highly reverberant and the main auditorium required a sound system which could deliver high quality speech and music playback without sound spillage into the surrounding meeting and exposition areas.
I had attended a demonstration of the new D&B T10 loudspeaker system and decided that it would be ideally suited to this design brief. The system was configured as two main left right line arrays with additional small delay hangs running down the length of the room on a central truss.
This was my first time using this system which produced an incredibly smooth warm sound throughout the audience area while its small size and low weight allowed me to position the arrays in locations which wouldn’t be possible with a larger system. Mixing the show on a Digico D1 at front of house was Paul Stannering ably assisted by Alison Dale who fitted the main presenters with their radio microphones.
In addition to the main conference auditorium I also designed a system for the expo area which utilized D&B Q arrays for the left right system with Q10 loudspeakers used for delays. This system provided sound for a large screen relay of the main presentation and also handled all the music elements of the Tuesday night entertainment including a live band.
Two further system were also needed for the breakout rooms and these were a mixture of more D&B T10’s this time in point source mode and the smaller D&B E3 loudspeakers. All the sound equipment was supplied by Dobson Sound Productions Ltd.
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