Radio Hire in Mons, Belgium for Great War Commemoration
Stephen Gilbert is currently running the radio shack at the initial commemoration event for the centenary of the Great War, World War I. Working for Delta Comms he is providing all site radios for the BBC’s production at the St Symphorien Cemetery on the outskirts of Mons where both British and German graves lie side by side. It is the resting place of both the first and last British soldiers to be killed in the four year war which demonstrates just how futile the whole thing was. The evening event on Monday 4th August will be televised on BBC2 at 7.30pm...
read moreComms for Tour De France in Yorkshire
Stephen Gilbert has been working as a Comms (communications) engineer in Yorkshire during Le Grand Depart, It involved a lot of radios, digital comms panels over Ethernet and varying means to secure the essential broadband across the beautiful Yorkshire Dales, villages and towns. This included Cat5 cable, fibre optic cable, microwave dishes and even satellite dishes. It was a challenging project but Stephen thoroughly enjoyed it and returned with a lot of new skills and great memories. This slideshow requires...
read moreWe’ve installed 50 Churches and Chapels in Devon & Cornwall with Audio
Last week saw us complete our 50th church/chapel installation (we didn’t include our work at Truro Cathedral). Lansallos Parish Church between Polperro and Polruan in Cornwall benefited from a complete new sound reinforcement system combined with an induction loop system for the hard of hearing. As with all of our church installations throughout Devon & Cornwall, every effort is made to ensure that the installation can be heard but not seen. To this end we use TOA slimline line array speakers that provide extensive even sound coverage from a discrete cabinet. Cables are usually glued to the stonework to avoid permanent damage to the fabric of the listed building and to avoid unsightly cable clips. Without wishing to sound arrogant, I think we’re getting pretty good at...
read moreFBT Verve Audio Installation for Holiday Park in North Devon
A completely new sound system has been installed in a completely new and highly impressive clubroom at Twitchen Holiday Park, Woolacombe Bay in North Devon. Not so much of a clubroom as a leisure complex. The clubroom sound system has been based around the FBT Verve active speaker range which has provided excellent audio quality from a medium priced product. Being Italian designed and built, it’s no wonder that they also look rather good! We have used a combination of Verve 110A active (powered) 10″ speakers in white with Verve 108A active speakers in black for the delay speakers so that the overall effect is very discrete and reverberation is kept to a minimum. Combined with FBT Subline 12″ sub-woofers under the stage and Verve 112M active stage monitors the overall effect certainly ‘puts the hairs up on the back of your neck’. Other equipment installed included a Yamaha MG206USB 20 channel desk for the entertainments team along with a Lexicon dual effects processor and a bank of three Behringer Ultradrive digital sound...
read moreSound Reinforcement for Matthew Parris in Launceston
Today I met Matthew Parris, journalist, presenter and former MP. We provided the sound reinforcement for an event at the Arundel Arms Hotel, Lifton at which Matthew was the guest speaker and very good he was too. The event was a celebration of the first years trading of Folk 2 Folk, a Launceston based company that brokers loans between local lenders and borrowers. Having lent £23 million in the last twelve months without any defaults and with a return of 7% approx for the lender it’s no wonder they’re...
read moreAudio-Visual Hire for Tribute Awards at Great Western Hotel, Newquay
For the eighth consecutive year we have arranged the audio-visual requirement for St Austell Brewery’s Tribute Estate Awards which seems to get bigger every year. Held for the past four years at The Great Western Hotel in Newquay, it involves a lot of lighting plasma screens, projection and audio relayed to nearly 300 guests.
read moreInduction Hearing Loops for Community Centre in Plymouth
We have recently completed the installation of several hearing loops at a new development in Plymouth. A central community building is nearing completion in North Prospect in Plymouth. A large area of housing in poor condition has been replaced by Barratt Homes and in the middle of the development is The Hub, a community building which includes a nursery, community library and various other facilities. We have installed loops in several areas of the building and also some portable loops. We were sub-contracted by Westwise M&E Contractors who were looking for experienced loop installers that were able to comply with the main contractors health and safety requirements including CSCS cards....
read moreRGB LED downlighters for Cycle Aerobics Suite in Saltash
The Cycle Aerobics Suite at China Fleet Country Club has just benefitted from a new 2.1 sound system with a Monitor Audio sub-woofer, four Apart ceiling speakers and a Trantec headworn wireless microphone designed specifically for aerobics. The audio upgrade has been matched by nine RGB LED downlighters providing vivid colour control via a discrete 1-gang controller. This slideshow requires JavaScript. ...
read moreAudio-Visual Hire for Range Rover Sport Launch at Maritime Museum, Falmouth
It seems that Cornwalls leading car dealership Carrs were so pleased with our audio-visual provision for the launch of the new F-type Jaguar that we were the obvious choice for the launch of the new Range Rover Sport once again at the National Maritime Museum Cornwall in Falmouth. Another successful evening and hopefully more to follow.
read morePA Hire for World Pilot Gig Championships
Stephen Gilbert has just returned from St Mary’s in the Scillies where he has been providing various sound systems for the Spring Bank Holiday Championships for more than 15 years. Horn PA systems are sited on the harbour wall (finishing line) and on ‘The Green’ (marshalling area for 136 pilot gigs and over 1000 competitors. Commentary is provided through Radio Scilly with a mobile link to their commentator aboard the press boat that follows the gigs in. It’s a very colourful event in more ways than one culminating in a full-on awards ceremony with a full range PA provided by...
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