| Sabine technology keeps America's Community Bankers Conference clear, crisp and intelligible |
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The Planet Productions-produced conference uses the expertise of Jefferson, Louisiana's PACE Sound & Light, Inc. for the audio portion of the production. The PACE audio rack is a veritable Sabine showcase packing two Sabine POWER-Q™ workstations, a REAL-Q™ Real-Time Adaptive Equalizer, two FBX-2020P Feedback Exterminators®, a DQX-206™ Digital Delay and an SDA-102™ Digital Delay on top for the operator's cue monitors. PACE also makes good use of several Sabine GRAPHI-Qs™ (digital EQ, FBX, compressor and delay) and the new Sabine True Mobility™ Wireless microphone systems with FBX, compressor and de-esser.
"We love PACE because they have great audio, "attests Mark Bonnefond, president of Planet Productions. "When we go to talk to a client about what they need for an annual meeting, conferences or product launch," Bonnefond states, "we tell them about some of the differences that we can make using PACE audio, because they can do it all. PACE can supply concert audio in an industrial setting at a quality price."
PACE senior sound engineer Dave Klutz says he "won't go anywhere without his Sabine rack." PACE has run sound for U.S. presidents, the Pope and for innumerable conferences, conventions and concerts. And wherever PACE goes, Sabine digital technology goes too. "I would not hit the bypass button on a Sabine for anything," asserts Klutz, "because when a Sabine unit is on the job, it works perfectly.
According to Klutz, durability and design are important when equipment spends a lot of time packed up inside a tractor-trailer, bouncing down the road. "Sabine equipment is built to last," Klutz insists. "Everything is really well thought out, "says Klutz. "There must be a lot of guys at Sabine who are like me — who have been on the road working sound. It's great equipment and I swear by it."
Klutz's favorite example of Sabine-to-the-rescue takes place every time he rehearses with a performer or speaker and states the ubiquitous: "Don't go past this point with a wireless microphone on," or "Do not go into the audience with a lavalier mic on." Klutz confides that despite well-meaning assurances to the contrary, during performance many performers will merrily proceed right down the stairs and into the audience. While other sound engineers start tearing their hair out, Klutz says he simply "watches the LEDs on my Sabine flash as the unit cancels out the feedback."