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ACIR Pro Supports Bennett's 85th Birthday Bash at the Met The Metropolitan Opera recently hosted the 85th birthday celebration of legendary singer, Tony Bennett. Guest artists included Elton John, Aretha Franklin, and Alejandro Sanz. ACIR Professional, of Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey, provided the necessary audio reinforcement gear. A Yamaha PM5D-EX was the console of choice for longtime Bennett front-of-house engineer, Tom Young. Young, whose rider preference is a PM5D, said the 5D-EX DSP5D expander was used as the primary snake with its ease of running a Cat5 cable due to space limitations of running a traditional copper snake in the venue. (The Met has minimal need for amplified sound.) In addition, ACIR provided d&b audiotechnik Q-1 line arrays, which were configured as left/right flown using eight boxes per side. Four Q-1 boxes per side were ground-stacked on top of a Q1 sub, powered with d&b D-12 amplifiers. An assortment of microphones from Sennheiser, Neumann, Audio-Technica, and Heil Sound were used for the show.
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