ALACHUA FLORIDA — “A great product at a great price — and no client complaints!” is how Brooke Mellington, Audio Specialist for the Orlando World Center, Marriott, describes the benefits of using six Graphi-Q remote-controlled FBX Feedback Exterminators® for the World Center’s breakout rooms. Clients get clear, crisp audio with plenty of headroom, and Mellington and his crew of audio technicians no longer get phone calls from irate clients about feedback problems.
The Graphi-Qs allow World Center technicians to set up the breakout room audio system and then leave it alone while the meetings are in progress. The six Sabine Graphi-Qs are built into rolling SKB road cases that plug into the World Center’s sound distribution system. Once the meeting space has been configured, the audio technicians use the Graphi-Q’s digital 31-band EQ to adjust the room sound, and then use the FBX to ring out feedback.
“In our larger general sessions — as many as 5,200 attendees — the Graphi-Qs are our safety valve,” states Mellington. “I use them on podium mics, and definitely when I have wireless mics on stage,” he continues. ”Wireless lavalier mics are the most popular request I get — up to 24 wireless lavalier mics on stage at a time — and because of that, the Sabine Graphi-Qs have been a lifesaver,” Mellington asserts.
According to Mellington, “clients are free to run all over the stage; podium mics can be live and used, or not used; and that motivational speaker who, surprise, just hops off the stage — and he didn’t do that in rehearsal — can go right into the audience without fear of feedback!”
The Graphi-Q is a digital 31-band EQ, FBX Feedback Exterminator®, compressor and delay and comes in single channel (one in, two out) or dual channel (two in, two out) models. The GRQ3101 (single-channel) and GRQ3102 (dual-channel) Graphi-Qs can be controlled by their front panels or by very powerful computer software. The GRQ3101-S (single-channel) and GRQ3102-S (dual-channel) Graphi-Qs have blank front panels and are computer controlled. All Graphi-Qs have 70 on-board program memories, multi-unit linking ability and password protection. Furthermore, current and future software and firmware revisions are FREE from Sabine's website. The Orlando World Center has 66 meeting rooms with a total of 214,000 square feet of meeting space. Shows are held two to three times a week and average three to five days in duration. “The Graphi-Qs are in use daily,” says Mellington, “and since we stated using them, the drop in client calls [for feedback trouble] has been 100%.”