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Technology feature
macabre discovery has been of skeletons in which the tops of the skulls have been neatly sawn off. […] Their relatives were presumably promised a decent burial in return for the ‘loan’ of the corpse.” Still, Bristol’s insatiable thirst for high-brow live music must be quenched, and according to Charcoalblue, which carried out acoustic testing on St George’s in preparation for its redevelopment, the venue is almost acoustically perfect. “Looking at the objective results of our reverberation time measurements… we [found] that the clarity and detail of sound that the hall provides trumps the traditional standards for reverberation,” says Charcoalblue team leader Ian Stickland. So there you have it – acoustics worth risking a zombie apocalypse for. This we have to hear… n www.akg.com/pro www.allen-heath.com www.apartaudio.com www.audio-technica.com www.charcoalblue.com www.electrovoice.com www.jblpro.com proav.roland.com www.soundtech.co.uk
ROYAL TREATMENT Left: Technical director Phill Beynon specified Pan Acoustics, JBL and a BSS Soundweb DSP kit in Leicester and right: Richard III would be particularly impressed with the directivity and intelligibility of the audio, if he’d not been dead for hundreds of years
Leicester acoustics consultancy NoiseBoys is, to PSNEurope’s knowledge, the only church installer to have hobnobbed with the ghosts of royalty. Following the discovery and subsequent reinternment of the remains of King Richard III in Leicester Cathedral, NoiseBoys was – as featured in the April 2015 issue of PSNEurope – contracted by the cathedral to completely overhaul its AV system, for which technical director Phill Beynon specified Pan Acoustics Pan Beam and JBL CBT 50 column speakers and a BSS Soundweb DSP system. Shortly after the completion of the installation, a 58-year-old medium and “psychic artist” called
Christine Hamlett spotted Richard’s face, ‘Jesus toast’ style, staring out of a slab in the floor. Hamlett, who visited the cathedral as a tourist, tells news agency Caters: “I always take pictures and send out my thoughts when I visit places, and when I looked back at the pictures of the slabs afterwards I was stunned – I saw Richard’s face staring back at me.” But don’t worry – everyone’s favourite dead king (who murdered his nine- and 12-year-old nephews in cold blood) is enjoying the afterlife: “It felt like he was finally at peace and in his rightful place,” says Hamlett. “A car park is no place for a King to be buried.” Well, quite.
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