DigiCo supplies consoles to French arts centre La Source

Two of the SD8s, supplied by DigiCo distributor Apex Audio’s French office, are installed in the ‘Big Room’, at the front of house and monitor positions, with the third fulfilling both functions in the Ampli.

The former is connected to the onstage DiGiRack via MADI, with a Yamaha DME64N routing output signals to L-Acoustics LA8 amplifiers, powering a dV-DOSC line array system.

All audio within the system is at 24 bit/48 kHz resolution. At the monitor position, the second SD8 provides mixes for 12 L-Acoustics 112P active monitors, two-way sidefills and three sets of Shure PSM700 in-ears.

Comprising three spaces, the ‘Big Room’ has a capacity of 400-600, the Ampli (240 standing) and the Auditorium (119 seated), La Source has a tricéphale (or three-headed) function.

‘Being a new building, the technical specification was designed to be as contemporary and future-proof as possible,” said La Source technical director Gilles Barjot. ‘(Sales and rental company) Arpège Son Lumiere gave us an excellent demo of the SD8 and we were so impressed that we bought three.’