dBS Solutions are pleased to have supplied additional audio equipment for the Mercury Theatre’s production of Spamalot. This laugh out loud production, sound designed by our director Christopher Bogg, opened to critical acclaim in Colchester before heading to Korea to form part of this years Daegu International Music Festival.
Digico SD9T on Urine Town. Designer: Findley Clayton.
Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts is one of the UK’s premier performance training establishments, teaching not only those on stage but those that support the Arts, lighting set and costume designers, sound engineers, designers, and directors.
dBS Solutions are delighted to be providing full production for this years Bury Transition Festival. The festival provides lighting and sound around Bury with live artists, sound sculptures and storytelling within the town’s garden areas. The events creators, The Hamilton Project contacted dBS after our work on Liverpool’s Pirate Festival. The event organisers were looking for a company with the right attitude to immersive arts events to provide sound, lighting, staging and power to a number of sites through Bury.
dBS Solutions were pleased to be providing the PA system for L30’s Million Musical Firework Display at Netherton Activity Centre this bonfire night. Our friends, Sirotechnics designed the display for Sefton’s local authority and when they had experienced audio that didn’t live up to the fabulous fireworks on previous events, Sirotechnics Director Simon Harding knew who to call. “The dBS Solutions team are awesome guys to work with. All Top notch.”
When the big planned UFC fight over at Manchester Arena needed a last minute audio system for an open workout, the arena’s Head of Events, Miriam Stone knew who to call. When an unforeseen venue change found the organisers UFC without a sound system, Miriam called dBS Solutions on the day of the event and by 14:00 our engineers were on site setting up in the Arena.
Martin Audio dealers dBS Solutions are pleased to be hosting an introductory session for Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts students this week, in the beautiful Paul McCartney Auditorium.
The session led by veteran live sound engineer and long term MLA user Simon Honywill will introduce Martin Audio’s revolutionary Multi Cellular Array technology to the next generation of audio engineers, serving as a grounding in the theory of the systems along with practical rigging in the field.
We’ve just got back from a beautiful weekend on Albert Docks looking after production for The all new Folk on The Dock Festival.
The sun was shining as over 82000 fans descended on the site over the Bank Holiday weekend. They where met with Folk from across the spectrum along with some great traditional sea shanties including the first ever performance of “Our Liverpool song,” a specially commissioned Sea Shanty for the modern day, written by Jason Ellis and Kathryn Rudge.
We are pleased to announce that we have recently moved into our new home in the beautiful Cheshire countryside.
The new site over in High Leigh just off the M6 motorway is three times the size of our old place allowing us to dedicate more space to sales, demos & training areas along with more space to prepare hire kit.
If your passing on the M6 and would like to call in for a tour and a coffee feel free.
Our new address is Unit 5 Brook Farm, Swineyard Lane, High Leigh, WA16 0SD. All our numbers and emails remain unchanged.
This week dBS Solutions where very proud to have been asked to assist with suppling audio for the press conference in Warrington for the Hillsborough family support group following the juries findings. Its been such a honour to be involved in something that has helped bring closure and clear the names of so many families.
This month sees dBS Solutions investing for the first time in Allen & Heath with their QU Series of mixers to service our growing need for compact tour-able mixers. With two shows this month alone leaving us to be flown around the world in suitcases finding something that sounds great and fits in a case under 30KG was crucial. The QU series has USB streaming and midi over USB from Qlab which is great for us so combined with a midi button box also powered over USB the whole system can fit in a Peli case in an aircrafts hold.
Just a few weeks ago the guys at dBS Solutions like everyone else, woke up to the tragic news that the Viola boys and their manager and old friend Craig Tarry had been in a terrible accident. Only weeks before we had been talking to Craig about their show in Warrington where we would be supplying PA and another future date for the town. The team at dBS where delighted when SJM concerts asked us to look after the audio for this weeks musical event at the Parr Hall to celebrate the band.
dBS Solutions have just taken delivery of our newest items to hire stock. A number of large format mains distribution systems to work along side our current stock with 125A three phase incoming supplies and several single and three phase outlets with MCBs & variable time and current earth leakage across all three phase outlets individually.
With festival season just around the corner, we thought it would be great to share some tips on creating the most decisive and helpful stage plots and information to help with those all important change overs and ensure you get the best from the festival sound team.
As we’ve had a busy start to 2016, the team have barley had chance to look up since our well earned rest over the festive period. We’ve had Avenue Q begin its UK tour once again, all the pantomimes return to us and as we look towards the summer we have been adding to our stock in preparation.
Mathew Barrow as The Wolf from little red riding hood.
Its been a great end to the year with several theatre shows going out with sound supplied by dBS Solutions. Miracle on 34th St UK tour and the Dubai production along with a fantastic new production, the UK Premier of Red Riding hood.
It’s been a great pantomime season for dBS Solutions this year with several productions around the country in London, Birmingham and our new addition, UK Productions flagship show in Sunderland Empire.
Now its all over, the team have time to reflect back on the season. dBS Sound designer Matt Chisholm talks us through the design for Sunderland.
Theatre sound specialists dBS Solutions where thrilled to be working with producer Paul Taylor Mills on this exciting concert in the heart of London’s West end. Continue reading
dBS Solutions Engineer’s where out throwing some shapes last week at the 2015 Printworks Street Dancer Competition.
Pro audio rental specialists dBS Solutions have added Martin Audio XD15 loud speaker systems to their rental infantry. The new additions were joined this week by yet more WS218x subwoofers just in time to finish what has been a busy festival season for the expending rental company.
dBS Solutions where pleased to be asked to provide the audio systems at this years Edinburgh Fringe for Momentum Venues at St Stephens. This exciting new venture houses three performing spaces providing the location for shows such
as Ushers the front of house musical, There’s a Guy Work’s Down The Chip Shop Swears He’s Elvis and many more.
dBS Solutions was built on live music roots and work on several music festivals over the summer months. We were super pleased this year to supply two stages at Beat Herder in Lancashire. “Talks with the festivals directors had been brewing for a few years and its great to finally get on site and start herding those beats” says dBS Director Chris Bogg.
Well what a busy month its been, with several new shows secured and leaving in June and July. From a UK tour for Park Resorts, to three exciting new venues in Edinburgh, we’ve been investing in new hire stock to meet the demand. With the addition of more moving lights from Robe in the shape of the Robin 600e spot and more Digico consoles added with another SD9 in stock we are all set for the summer. We also can’t get enough Sennheiser evolution radio microphones adding more to our rental inventory in a new RF band. This new range gives us the option of up to 24 channels of radio mics within the Uk shared licence that we supply free with your rental. A great win for those clients wanting more than 12 channels without the cost of fixed site licences.
dBS Solutions are pleased to welcome a new arrival to our team. Matt Chisholm will be taking up the role of Projects and Development Manager from April. Matt has previously worked for The Liverpool Arena and Convention Centre as their Senior Sound Technician and prior to this, was an Installation Engineer for J&C Joel. He is looking forward to the challenges of a busy rental company. Responsible for managing the company’s larger projects and assisting with the ever-growing rental stock, Matt brings a wealth of experience to the team.
You can reach Matt at: matt@dbs-solutions.co.uk, on our office number or why not call in for a chat and a brew.
dBS Solutions where pleased to be supplying audio equipment for the Hong Kong production of Seussical The Musical this November. Originally produced by Sell a Door for the West End last year, and produced out in Hong Kong by ABA Productions, this exciting vibrant childrens show is a real hit with Dr Seuss fans world wide. dBS Solutions director Christopher Bogg sound designed the original London production and was thrilled to be asked back for the Chinese revival.
Much of the sound equipment was sourced locally through Mad Music, a company we have now developed good links with for future productions in Asia. dBS Solutions did however supply all of the shows playback requirements with dual redundant Qlab systems and control along with our radio mic capsules to ensure the consistency of the shows sound across the world.
Thanks goes to Danny Clare for his work on the shows preparation, George Chapburn the shows console operator, Can Dog and all at Mad Music and staff at HKPAs Lyric theatre for their invaluable help.
When the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra joined forces with Manchester Imperial War Museum North to tell the true story of world war one solider Arthur Burke, the BBCs Special projects manager called upon our lighting designer Christopher Bogg to assist.
The collaborative project composed by Richard Taylor and with book written and directed by Di Sherlock was performed within the war museums main gallery space in traverse which brought a unique set of challenges. The project also featured video content across all of the walls behind the audience of original footage from the archives designed by Soup Collectives Mark Thomas.
Christopher explains “although the space was equipped with some theatrical lighting, much of this was in use for the museums main exhibition, still open during the day times. We where able to use carefully selected fixtures from the in house lighting rig augmented with dBS Solutions lighting equipment” Equipment ranged from ETC source four profiles, to Robe 300 spot fixtures and wireless DMX by Wireless solutions. The museums opening meant that there where very tight turn around times between the museum closing and our performances beginning. Much of the lighting system designed was done so in such a way that it could remain in place during the day times connected together with wireless control systems keeping turn arounds to a minimum. Much of the rigging, focusing and programming happened through the night.
The event was a huge success with attendance from many world war one connections including the relatives of Arthur, the stories main character among other veterans. The performance was also filmed by the BBC and broadcast on BBC Radio Manchester.
Thanks goes to all our dBS Solutions crew on the show, Danny Burrows, Martin Winton and Christopher Bogg. Also to those at the BBC and IWMN for their invaluable help, Laura Willson and Ric Douglas
Birmingham Hippodrome theatre again asked dBS Solutions to supply this years Summer in Southside festival over August. The event spanning four weekends across the month saw dBS engineers look after the multiple sites across the city supplying PA systems ranging from speakers on stands for music playback all the way up to large scale systems for live music, DJ play back or musical theatre performances.
Each weekend saw the squares around Southside filled with various acts, artists and unusual happenings. The festival was very well received by the Birmingham public. dBS Engineers Chris Taylor, Damian Breeze, Matt Chisholm, Craig Stewart and Danny Burrows on site across the weekends.
When dBS Solutions, was tasked by Sell a Door Theatre Company to design a sound system that would take the touring version of the hugely successful, long-running West End show Avenue Q the length and breadth of the UK, the company’s Director Chris Bogg was faced with a stiff challenge. The size of venues the production would be visiting varied enormously; and on tours of this type, where truck space is at a premium, touring the minimum amount of kit, while keeping the production scalable, was crucial.
Chris designed a system based around the New Martin Audio XD12 speaker with front fills and delays being delivered by the DD6 compact cabinets recently added to stock. All of the processing for the system was undertaken by XTAs DP226 processors wirelessly controlled from a tablet PC system. Monitoring for the 6 band members was undertaken by the p16 personal monitor system allowing for each band member to have full control over their monitor mix. All radio mics where Sennheiser systems with DPA 4061 mics hidden in each actors hair line. This allowed for crisp defined details from the cast vocally whilst staying desecrate to those audience members in the front rows.
The audio console was a Midas Pro 1 system with remote stage boxes for the band. The whole show has been programmed scene by scene allowing the faders and channels needed to be brought to the operator via population groups. Scenes and sound effects as well as the shows video animations are played back and controlled from the custom built dBS Solutions Qlab systems.
The show has been touring around the country to great houses and reviews alike Its still not to late to catch this show in Portsmouth and Birmingham running until September 20th before heading to Hong Kong in September.
dBS Solutions have been Warrington Music Festivals production supplier since the festival started so we where thrilled to be working again this year on the event which has been really gathering momentum over the last few years. This year the main stage in the old market place was supplemented by a big top over in Bank Park with nights ranging from A heavy rock night on the Friday, The annual Proms in the Park run by the 75th engineers regiment and cumulating in Warringtons youth carnival on the Sunday. With all the different styles of music and acts the system had to be flexible to provide both the detail needed for orchestral amplification and also the sound pressure level for the heavy rock events.
dBS Director Christopher Bogg specified 8 stacks of our Ohm TRS system with MC2 E series amps to drive the system. Desks where Yamaha LS9s along with Ohm wedges to compliment the front of house sound. Lighting was a mix of pars for colour washes and white light with Robe Robin 300LEDs and Chauvet Colourdash Quad battons.
Main stage audio in the market place was comprised of 16 Martin Audio W8LM Line array speakers with 8 WS218x subs along with some in fills. Monitors where LE1500s with W8DVQ on side fill duty. Consoles where all Midas Pro series.
Lighting on the main stage again saw our Robe Robin 300s and 600s washes and spots along with Chauvet Slim Par Pro pars Atomics and Sunstrips.
dBS Solutions engineers Danny Claire, Simon West, Martin Winton, Chris Bogg, Danny Burrows, Sam Edwards, Keiron Murphy, Al Johnstone,Zak White, Dan Williams and Damian Breeze where on site to ensure all went smoothly.
dBS Solutions where approached back in November to help design and arrange the lighting, audio and effect needs of Hamleys London for the launch of their Manchester store in the Into Trafford Centre.
Having worked with dBS before, event manager Max Mayer came to us as he knew that he could trust us to deliver this event within the tight timescale required.
For the soft opening back in December dBS Solutions provided a PA system for the event comprising of our Martin Audio F15 speaker system, with a selection of radio microphones. The lighting design incorporated several of our wireless LED up lighters both around the malls pillars, and in the store. These also doubled up as wireless receivers for the Robe moving lights and Magic FX confetti systems utilised to drop Hamleys red confetti on the big opening.
For the launch of the larger store in February Max contracted dBS Solutions to supply lighting. Our uplighters again where utilised around the store with truss towers containing robe moving lights with custom Hamleys gobos projected onto walls and floor space. dBS Engineers George Chatburn and Martin Winton where on site to ensure all went smoothly for the openings.
All went very well, we have had some great feedback from the events team at Hamleys saying the product provided by dBS was of fitting quality for our international brand and was installed discreetly yet effectively. The staff at DBS are highly knowledgeable and provided a professional and personable service that exceeded our expectations
Thanks to all involved.
dBS Solutions are pleased to announce that we will be suppling sound and lighting design, equipment and staff for this months tour by the band 911.
Following their featuring on ITVs big reunion, the band approached dBS Solutions after working with us around two years ago on some one off projects to look at the staging and custom props for the tour. dBS Solutions lighting designer Martin Winton has worked closely with the band to develop a lighting concept for the tour that is impressive and scalable across venues. The bands Illuminate tour will take in a wide variety of venues across the country.
dBS director Christopher Bogg has designed an audio system to work across the tour using some elements of the house systems for delays and fills. Our Ohm TRS system will be deployed providing coverage for the audience with TRS218s and TRS112h high packs. Infills will be TRS112s all driven from MC2 E series amps and processed from Ohm Creds. The show is mixed from one of our Yamaha LS9 compact consoles with Sennheiser radio mics and in Ear monitor systems.
Wintons lighting design features Robe LED Wash 300s Robin 300e spots along with Pulsar Chroma Strips to compliment the hose lighting rigs. All control if from a Chamsys MQ100 Pro.
dBS Staff Craig Stuart, Martin Winton and Alistair Nickolson will be looking after the boys on tour.
dBS Solutions where this year asked to design and supply the sound for the annual pantomime for accountancy giant Price Waterhouse Coopers. The organisation have a history going back twenty eight years of organising and performing pantomimes for children. Their shows have in the past been broadcast to hospital childrens wards and cinemas up and down the country and are performed at the Peacock theatre, Sadlers Wells West end home. Price Waterhouse Cooper staff feature in every roll within the production from cast, orchestra to stage management, props and costume.
This years production of Cinderella played at both the Peacock and Edinburgh Kings theatre. The shows Lighting designer and Production adviser David Clair asked dBS Solutions director Christopher Bogg to get involved back in October. When looking for a company to take the show on, dBS Solutions were Davids first choice.
“The show is not without its Technical challenges” says Christopher. The get in and set up times in London are limited as the venue is in use during the day. Couple this with the shows size and the need for record feeds to an OB truck and we have a complex technical production to load in and tech in a just few days. dBS Solutions prepared as much of the project as we could from our warehouse in Warrington before shipping equipment off to London. This included designing custom built racks for the stage to house amps, radio mics and vital comms equipment. Our Midas sound console was preprogrammed in our unit over the days before the load in from rehearsal notes to ensure every moment within the venue was used wisely.
The system consisted of a selection of Mics from Sennheiser, Shure, Robe, and AKG in the pit with spot monitoring on stands from Yamaha MSP3s and 5s. Radio mics where our Sennheiser Evolution 500 series with WSM software so that our sound operators could monitor the mics progress from both stage and front of house. Other monitoring both on stage and in the pit was provided by Ohm TRS112s and BR6s. The system in London was a house d&b system whilst in Edinburgh was a Meyer UPA system of which we added some of our subsonic speakers from hire stock. Processing was from XTA electronics with Midas Pro 2 series console.
dBS also arranged logistics to London and return from Edinburgh for both audio and lighting along with the local supply of an active splitter system for the record feeds for London. The show was a great success with many cast and creatives commenting of the audio quality. dBS Solutions would like thank lighting designer David Clair, production engineer Matt Wharton, Deputy head of sound Tara Kent, and Sound assistant Kiran Sondhi for all their hard work over the shows run.
We have been spending our time in Birmingham over the last month or two helping the Birmingham Hippodrome to celebrate the opening of the new Library in the City.
The series of events around the four squares in the centre of Birmingham was production managed by Liverpool based Event Design Logistics. Production manager Jon Sims asked dBS Solutions to provide audio systems across the sites for the three weekends.
With a range of challenges across the sites from tight load in and set up times, to broadcasting music across several of the audio systems wirelessly, dBS Solutions project managers Chris Bogg and Chris Taylor where on site to ensure all ran smoothly.
The first weekend saw five PA systems around the city for the weekend of dance. With acts from “Trollies” the performance of choreographed dance with shopping trollies, to the strange abstract Con tatto moving sculptures. Much of the systems where based around Our Ohm TRS systems with either TRS218 subs and TRS112H high packs for the larger locations and TRS112 on stands for the more intimate performances.
The next weekend saw performances of The Iron Man, with our Martin audio line array system, several of our Sennheiser radio mics, a selection of band mics and fold back all mixed on a Yamaha LS9 32 with some Q lab tracks thrown in for good measure. The weekend featured the talents of No Fit State Circus who where displaying a range of circus taster sessions, impromptu stunts and performances all set to traditional circus music.
The Final weekend in September featured both No Fit State Circus and the Wired Arial production “As The World Tipped. A busy weekend saw the dBS Team providing Ohm TRS systems for the circus events and two hangs of our Martin line array from PA towers for the evening Arial shows.
Both events where well attended and the four square weekends where an overwhelming success. Thanks goes to Jon and Stu at Event Design Logistics, dBS Engineers Chris Taylor, Richard Pomeroy, Keiron Murphy, Nick Jackson Phil Carus and Simon West.
dBS Solutions was asked to supply full production for the Cheshire & Warrington Schools games back in July supplying staging, power, video screens and equipment, audio and lighting for the event.
This years games was held at the Orford Jubilee hub and saw schools from all over Cheshire compete in a full range of disciplines. The events spanned both indoors and out with the events main hub being out on the field where the stage and screen where cited showing scores and photos of the day along with the twitter feed of the event.
As the area was so large dBS Solutions audio engineers Chris Bogg and Danny Clare deployed our Martin audio W8LM line array system in an array hung from our 6M PA towers. This design ensured that important announcements about the events and scores reached all corners of the sporting field of play. dBS Solutions screen and video engineers where on site throughout the day ensuring that up to the minute scores and media of the indoor events could be scene venue wide. The system did a great job and the sun shone giving our crew the first glimpse of a sun tan this year.
For assistance in planing your next sporting event with audio, power, AV and scoreboard technology please give the office a call to chat with Chris Bogg.
Wow have we been busy! Over the last month or so we have been getting ready for the summer ahead and the result is the addition of the Midas Pro2 to our rental stock here in Warrington.
The consoles landed with use last week and is available for hire at competitive day and week rates. We have also added more Chamsys lighting consoles along with the Behringer X32 system for those smaller events where budget is tight.
We are looking forward to getting these great desks out over our busy summer of events, to make one of those events your please call the office to see how we can help.
With our lighting rental stock getting busier and busier dBS Solutions have added more Chamsys MQ100 Pro consoles to our rental infantry. “These powerful moving light desks are capable of 32 universes and offer a wide range of features unrivalled by many manufactures” says dBS Solutions director Chris Bogg.
We have seen a massive increase in requests for these consoles on our events from engineers and lighting designers and with summer round the corner the company has added to its existing stock of MQ100 Pro consoles, and Magic PC Wings.
To hire any of our Chamsys lighting products for your event, purchase Chamsys equipment or to see what the consoles can do for you call the office and arrange a visit and a demo with our visualisation system.
dBS Solutions have built a great relationship with lighting designer Olly Suckling and the band Hadouken over several years so we were delighted to be asked to supply lighting for the outfits latest UK tour.
Olly designed a compact but flexible system of truss towers using our LITEC TX 30s truss with custom made base and header plates to support a range of Robe LED300 washes, showtec power bricks, and some sunstrip actives added to stock for the tour. This was supplemented by some Martin atomic strobes, GU10 birdies and dimming along with the venues house rigs and one of our look solutions hazers.
Programmed and operated on Ollys own Chamsys system with additional support and wings supplied by dBS the show made for an impressive night.
You can find some great photos of the tour on the Hadouken twitter page @hadoukenUK.
Call the office to find out how dBS Solutions can support your next tour or event today.
dBS Solutions have recently been providing audio and lighting for this years comic relief events.
Comic relief contacted us to provide technical support for their live outside broadcast stage at the Bull Ring in Birmingham city centre where celebrity Miranda Hart was tasked with getting a girl band together in 24 hours.
The live OB on the BBCs The One Show consisted of performances and interviews with “the band” as well as talks with original spice girls members amongst others. The system provided was 4 stacks of our Ohm TRS for the audience with Ohm 112 wedges on stage, Sennheiser evolution 500 hand helds and belt pack systems with our JAG Audio IMX6 head set radio mic capsules. dBS Solutions engineer Nick Jackson provided the live mix as well as a line split for the BBCs outside broadcast team.
Lighting was a range of our Chauvet Slim Par Pro units with Power brick LED fixtures Robe Robin 300 LED washes with some generic front light washs for camera. Lighting was designed and operated by Martin Winton on a Chamsys MQ100 Pro.
dBS Solutions invests in Martin Audio Amplifiers
All of our W8LM racks now include Martins MA2K, MA5.2K and the beastly MA18K for our WS218x Subs. “The new amps have added a touch of detail and clarity to the system that we havent heard before” says dBS Solutions director Chris Bogg. We auditioned several options when looking for something to replace our ageing Crown Macrotechs and the Martin branded Powersoft units where the clear winners. Lightweight, smart and compact with a sonic quality unmatched by many others.
The new amp racks where put right into action on a production of Miss Saigon designed by Chris Bogg at the Brindley in Runcorn and from there on to a large scale outdoor event hung from our new larger Trabes PA towers. To take advantage of our new Martin amps and our W8LM system and see what all the fuss is about, contact the office today.
After the success of the Liverpool Lantern Parade the Lantern company was commissioned to produce an event in New Brighton.
When Jackie Swanson asked dBS Solutions to look at providing the events audio requirements we jumped at the chance. “Working with the Liverpool Lantern company is always a pleasure” says dBS Solutions director Chris Bogg. We have provided the audio for the last three Liverpool events and are very happy to be involved in this new venture over the water.
The parade works its way around the Marina and onto the Promenade in New brighton in front of around 5000 festive followers. Our Ohm TRS PA system spread around the Marina supplemented by Ohm TRS 112 boxes on stands was specified to cover the area evenly and ensuring that whilst everyone can hear, its not to loud in any one area. Engineers Keiron Murphy and Chris Bogg were on site to ensure that everything ran smoothly from the audio playback to the power supply for the system.
dBS Solutions are please to be suppling the audio equipment for Sell a door theatre companys production of Seussical the Musical at the Arts theatre London.
The run will open on December 4th and run until 6th January with two shows a day weekends. Sell a Doors Director Philip Rowntree contacted dBS Solutions to provide all of the shows audio needs over and above equipment in the venue after speaking about a previous project last year and have been looking forward to working together.
Seussical London!
Custom Productions have long since been involved in the summer long season over at the beautiful Gawsworth hall in Cheshire. When this years producers were looking for a new audio partner to work with Customs director John Slevin stepped up and suggested dBS Solutions. Our relationship with John spans several years of successful events so we where only to happy to help design and install a system for this complex yet flexible space within the halls grounds.
Our Martin audio W8LM system was chosen for its rider friendliness with incoming productions and also for its clean reproduction for theatre, rock and roll and speech. The system of 4 x W8LM speakers each side of the stage area was ground stacked upon a single WS218x sub within custom all weather hides. We then provided some delay moon speakers to hang within the grandstand canopy to assist with imaging and intelligibility further back in the stands. All processing was dont from our XTA electronics DP226 units with wireless tablet control.
The season went well with Custom productions receiving several compliments from touring productions on the audio system and we are looking forward to next year.
To find out how we can help you with your next production inside or out call or email the hire department for details.
Liverpool Based audio specialist Sound Concepts contacted us to provide a PA system for the all new band stand in Williamson Square this summer. The event organised by Open Culture was in the square each weekend for around 5 weeks.
Sound designer Colin Ramsden had designed a series of 6 Ohm BR6 speakers around the outside of the stand with a pair as monitors on stage. Low frequencies where handled by the addition of two Ohm Moon Sub enclosures all driven from Crown XTI series amps and processed by XTA Electronics DP226 units. We supplied Sound concepts with a single gig rack with all he needed for for event including, TC electronic M2000 reverbs, a soundcraft GB2 console, CD players and the amps for the job. The system was controlled by a tablet PC running audiocore allowing the engineer to wander around the band stand tuning the system.
Colin was very pleased with the system and support from us over the five weeks. When asked about dBS he said “Good clean kit time after time, excellent customer service and regularly exceeding our expectations, dBS Solutions will always be our first choice for all our equipment hire needs”
Thanks Colin for your kind words.
dBS Solutions where asked to provide a PA system and some AV equipment for construction machinery company Terex Finlay for their exhibition stand over at Hill Head Quarry.
The event organised by Event exhibition in Belfast saw our speakers out in the harsh elements for the best part of a week with wind, rain and all the british weather could throw at it. All our kit was thankfully covered in our custom waterproof covers and remained dry and safe.
dBS Solutions have supplied radio mics systems and support for the Living Colour Productions musical Baby.
The shows sound designer Elliot Sinclair contacted dBS regarding the hire for the show performed at the Unity Theatre in Liverpool back in March.
The show was just one of eight musical theatre performances that dBS Supplied in March proving that when it comes to theatre, dBS Solutions are truly Setting Hire Standards.
dBS Solutions has supplied the sound system for the Wilmslow based youth group SCAMPS.
Long time SCAMPS Lighting designer and production manager John Slevin from Custom* productions asked dBS Solutions to supply the audio system and additional microphones to supplement Customs stock. Working with Owen Lewis and the Custom productions team, sound designer Chris Bogg suggested a system comprising our new Martin W8LM line array. This suited the room very well and provided clear audio to every seat in the house.
The show was a great success with some great feedback from the group regarding the sound. Your can catch there next production by visiting the web site in our links section.
Photo credit: Tony Loannides
With a the new year comes some very special offers from dBS Solutions on hiring equipment available while stocks last. To be eligible for these great prices, all you have to do is “Like” our Facebook page or “tweet” us on twitter. All prices are plus VAT
Sennheiser radio mics with a headset or capsule from £50 a week. Yamaha LS9s from £110 a week. Robe robin moving lights from £80 a week. Low fog from £99 a week.
Stocks are limited for more details of our offers please see our facebook or twitter pages. These deals are just a small portion of the equipment we have available with in our stock. If you would like to discuss any hires for longer periods of time, on a daily basis or our full production options, please contact us.
dBS Solutions provided PA systems staging and lighting for a range of corporate events throughout Manchester for the printer manufacturer Epson. The dinner events where held in some of Manchester’s best venues including The Radison hotel, The Midland hotel and Harvey Nickols.
The events for The ultimate events company included entertainment from guitarists to full jazz funk bands as well as soloists, and surprise guests, Incognito. dBS Solutions supplied discreet audio systems as well as room lighting and follow spots for the week of events.
When The Bridgewater Hall, Manchesters Premier concert and corporate events venue looked to hold a VIP event to show off their wonderful facilities to prospective corporate clients, they chose dBS Solutions to provide lighting throughout the venue.
With a proven track record in both indoor and outdoor lighting for large scale corporate events the team at the hall knew they could trust Chris at dBS Solutions to provide the look required. Deputy conference and events manager Bonnie Turnbull said “it was an important event for us, and it made such a difference for us that we could trust the lighting was in safe hands”.
Chris designed a host of lighting from over 60 LED up lighters ranging in size to 12 of dBS Solutions new Robe Robin fixtures around the venue to light up the open spaces and the halls signature flame art work. All of the lighting for the event was programmed and operated from a Chamsys MQ 100 Pro from out hire stock.
The year 2009 celebrates the international year of astronomy, 40 years since the moon landing, and 200 years since the death of the composer Haydn. To mark these significant events, the BBC commissioned Salford-based composer Alan Edward Williams to write Wonder, a 21st century vocal work that reflects our present understanding and scientific knowledge of the creation theory.
The BBCs project manager and producer Martin Maris asked Lighting designer Chris Bogg to come onboard and assist in helping the project look spectacular. “I worked very closely with designer David Millard throughout the project” says Chris. “David’s Idea was to create a space feel to the whole venue, we looked at suspending large planet like spheres over both the audience and the orchestra. This idea evolved into using super size weather balloons filled with helium and floated from locations within the orchestra.” Although this now solved many of the problems of suspending such spheres from the venues roof space, Chris explained “this now meant that due to the balloons being a one use only item, painting them like the surface of a planet was now not possible”. It fell to the lighting team of Chris, Damien Jackson and Sam Edwards to make these white balloons look like planets. Each planet was lit from the floor with 2 source four profiles with texture gobos in them. Further texture was then applied from the 6 future light PHS260 moving lights dotted around the outside of the Orchestra. The 100 strong choir from The Salford Choral Society and the BBC Singers was then lit from more source four profiles, and a range of fresnels with scrollers for colour changes. Chris programed the lighting rig from a Chamsys MQ100 Pro the evening before the event during dark time after the Philharmonics rehearsals.
The project has been a great success and is a true reflection of what can be achieved turning your average university hall into a truly theatrical experience. “It has given me great personal pleasure to work with all the dBS team on this complex and often demanding project, but the audio/visual installation and the three performances made it all worthwhile” says the BBCs Martin Maris.
More work in the lower hall was on display as part of the project, 250 school children and students created an art installation complete with sound scape and again lit by designer Chris Bogg.
Photos of the concert and the exhibition space will be available soon in the showcase section.
