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a straight line across the<br />
length of the room. Audio<br />
was split between <strong>FOH</strong> and<br />
the CBC broadcast truck to<br />
send out the events live.<br />
At <strong>FOH</strong>, Fisher sat on<br />
a coveted electric blanket<br />
in front of a Yamaha M7CL<br />
digital mixer and rode the<br />
Load-in for the opening ceremonies for the 2007 Canadian Winter Games<br />
faders for mains and monitors.<br />
Fisher was impressed with the new<br />
M’elodies, and he didn’t need to use any<br />
fancy EQ shading or tricks to make them<br />
sound good.<br />
“The acoustics of the tent are surprisingly<br />
excellent,” Fisher says. “It’s a very<br />
dead tent, which makes it easy to mix.”<br />
He was concerned about the loud fan<br />
noise from the heating blowers, but CBC<br />
TV insisted the fans be turned off when<br />
the audience was seated and the show<br />
went live. Fisher ran a typical festival mix,<br />
reinforcing the best northern artists performing<br />
a variety of music ranging from<br />
hip hop, pop, choral and traditional Inuit<br />
on three stages. As the athletes arrived<br />
Fisher played the appropriate track cues<br />
from his 360 Systems Instant Replay, and<br />
Laurence patched and set up the stage<br />
during the show. During rehearsals, Mark<br />
used a touch screen and a low cost Windows<br />
shareware program called Sports<br />
Sound Pro to playback cues.<br />
“Sports Sound Pro program has more<br />
features and is easier to use than the cur-<br />
The finished enclosure<br />
Mark Fisher, Benoit Laurence and local tech Craig Marcuk<br />
rent 360 Systems Instant Replay<br />
system,” says Fisher. “It can do a<br />
lot more — including playing<br />
compressed audio like MP3s and<br />
easily accommodate last minute<br />
changes on the fly.” The only drawback<br />
Fisher sees to the program is<br />
its reliance on the Windows OS. “I<br />
would use it as my primary playback<br />
device, if it ran on a more stable operating<br />
system like Linux.”<br />
Despite the size and scope of<br />
the event, the opening ceremonies<br />
went without a hitch. The prime<br />
minister and all the provincial<br />
premiers were there to open the<br />
games, and First Nation Inuit natives<br />
played a large role in the ceremonies<br />
for the first time, too. For a<br />
few weeks, the Winter Games even<br />
outshone the Aurora Borealis.<br />
Gear<br />
16 Meyer M’elodie<br />
4 Meyer 700HP Subs<br />
2 Meyer 650P Subs<br />
4 EAW KF650E<br />
20 Electro-Voice Sx300<br />
14 QSC PLX amps<br />
<strong>FOH</strong><br />
1 Yamaha M7CL<br />
1 Yamaha M3000 (backup console)<br />
1 360 Systems Instant Replay<br />
1 Marantz CD Player<br />
1 Meyer Galileo<br />
3 dbx Driverack 4800<br />
MON<br />
8 EAW SM200<br />
8 Channels of Shure U series wireless<br />
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