Shure Axient system delivers at Global Indian Music Awards
Published: ASIA
INDIA: A Shure Axient system was relied upon for the recent third Chevrolet Star Global Indian Music Awards (GiMA), which took place at the Yash Raj Studios in Mumbai. The 2012 ceremony honoured members of the Indian music and film industries, and was aired by Star TV Network and its affiliates, reaching viewers in India, the Middle East, South America, the UK and the US.
Axient Wireless systems were used to showcase the evening’s 11 performances, which ranged from a special tribute celebrating AR Rahman to other musical appearances by Sonu Nigam, Sonkashi Sinha and Sukhwinder Singh.
The live music mix was handled by Osie Pinto, head of operations at Performance Audio, whose team provided onsite technical support during the event along with all the production equipment. Meanwhile, Shure’s Indian distributor Sun Infonet Pvt Ltd was also present to assist with frequency coordination.
The team relied on the Axient Wireless management network, which comprised various Shure products such as AXT400 dual channel receivers, an AXT600 Axient spectrum manager, the brand’s rechargeable battery technology and a number of AXT200 Axient handheld frequency diversity transmitters. The latter were controlled and monitored through Shure’s Wireless Workbench 6 software.
The live production team also relied on various UHF-R Wireless microphone systems with UR2 handheld transmitters, as well as Shure MX412 and MX418 gooseneck mics for the podium set-up. In addition, a variety of Shure microphones – including SM58s, SM57s, SM81LCs, KSM44s and models from the Beta series were used for instruments.
‘The Axient system’s dual channel capabilities exceeded expectations,’ commented Mr Pinto. ‘During an awards show event we only have one chance to get it right, so we needed a workflow that we could trust. Additionally, Axient allowed us to remotely adjust the transmitter’s audio gain setting on the talents’ beltpacks in real-time during the show, which ensured that we didn’t clip any input signals.’
‘The spectrum manager is an amazing RF management tool,’ enthused Vijay Sinha, applications engineer at Sun Infonet. ‘It constantly monitors frequencies in use and ranks backup frequencies. You don’t have to worry about scrambling to find a clean frequency.’