Show Imaging Partners with Event Wave for Product Launch

In October on the deck of the USS Iowa Battleship Museum, a jazz quartet played, followed by a symphony orchestra, followed by a rock band, followed by executive presentations. It was a lot to fit into a two hour show, so Show Imaging’s Mark Lopez reached out to Event Wave to handle the audio. Shane Smith served as system designer and engineer. According to Lopez, “once I looped Shane in with the client emails, all of the audio issues and conversations resolved. He worked directly with the client to handle everything in the background. It was just what I needed.”

The Dante enabled system included more than 100 microphones feeding 10 networked I/O devices, including multiple consoles and two 64 track recording systems. Orchestral specialist (and Guns N’ Roses “November Rain” conductor) Jonathan Merrill co-mixed the event with mixer Robert Biles (Earth, Wind, & Fire, Vital Information) on two Yamaha CL desks. Merrill remarked, “it was fun to take a large studio mic deployment on to the deck of a battleship like that. The team was a huge help in translating my layout into a live music setting, and the P.A. sounded great.” The show also marked the first ground stacked deployment of Event Wave’s new L-Acoustics KARA loudspeaker system.

“The team was a huge help in translating my layout into a live music setting, and the P.A. sounded great.”

Smith reflected, “it was a fun project. As clients and designers get used to the capabilities of digital routing and networking, they begin to build new ideas into their shows. It’s great being a part of a show that stretches out the Dante network, and provides some mental floss at the same time.”