DiGiCo delivers to Malaysian audiences
Published: ASIA
MALAYSIA: DiGiCo has supplied several SD10 mixing consoles to Selangor-based Clef Productions Sdn Bhd for use during its most recent project, Anuar Zain’s Three Deacades of Music, Love and Passion.
The concert by Anuar Zain was in celebration of 30 years work in the music industry. Three DiGiCo SD10s were supplied for the concert, which took place at the 8000-capacity Stadium Melawati earlier in the year. One SD10 was positioned at FoH, one on monitors and a third doing a separate multitrack recording mix for broadcast and future release.
Clef Productions is one of the leading companies in Malaysia’s live production industry. Clef’s owner Alvin Koh was a fan of DiGiCo’s original D5 consoles before he started working with the SD Series and has specified DiGiCo on shows by some of Malaysia’s biggest artists this year.
‘What I most like about DiGiCo is the sound quality and the flexibility of how you can customise the work surface. Yet, at the same time, you have the benefits of the DiGiTuBes and the ‘analogue’ style of the console’s layout and workflow,’ said Mr Koh.
Clef has also recently supplied two DiGiCo SD10 consoles to the packed out 8000-seat Kuala Lumpur Stadium Putra back in September, where a pair of SD10s were similarly used at the FoH and monitor positions.
One reason why Mr Koh likes DiGiCo consoles is ‘their ability to handle a large input channel count in a single desk’ and this was what made him choose to use an SD7 at FoH for four consecutive nights of performances by Siti Nurhaliza at Kuala Lumpur’s Istana Budaya (Palace of Culture). Complementing the SD7 was an SD10 on monitors.
‘It is also so easy to record shows, either using a DiGiCo UB Madi interface – for up to 48 channels – or with the new DiGiGrid MGB for up to 128 channels, direct to an Ethernet port on a PC or Mac running any DAW,’ commented Mr Koh.
The high profile of these artists in their home country meant that Alvin and his team were under a lot of pressure to deliver exceptional sound. As well as the DiGiCo consoles helping to do just that, he also needed the peace of mind that high quality technical support was only a phone call away.
‘I’ve been spoiled by DiGiCo’s support, both technical and production related,’ he concludes. ‘James Gordon and Dan Page have been great, while distributor Team108 never fails to support me whenever I need it. I get to talk to real people who share the passion and understand the needs of a production. I feel they are always there, virtually next to me, whenever I use DiGiCo.’