KLARK TEKNIK FOR KENTUCKY ARTS CENTER
The Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts in Louisville is one of the most impressive facilities of its kind in the United States. In keeping with its reputation for world-class entertainment, education and arts programs, the center features no less than five Midas mixing consoles (Venice 320, XL200, Heritage 1000, Heritage 2000, Heritage 3000), and recently added a rack of four Klark Teknik DN1248 Plus active analog microphone splitters to its equipment list, keeping the “Midas Sound” intact at this critical stage in the signal chain. An additional rack with a single DN1248 Plus is also on hand. Head Audio Engineer at the center is Ted Subotky; David Doukas is Audio Department Manager.
“We handle everything from Presidential conventions to rock concerts to lectures,” says Doukas, “along with a handful of annual television broadcasts, so we need a mic splitter to deliver reliability, high sound quality and flexibility. And, being a Midas house, we've set ourselves a high sonic benchmark, so the Klark Teknik DN1248 Plus splitters—having Midas Heritage-derived preamps and being the FM version they have balanced transformers on every output—were the obvious choice. No other product could offer the sonic clarity we’re used to here.”
Doukas and Subotky assembled four DN1248 Plus splitters in a custom rack with high-end multi-connectors. The rack is wired with all four sets of 48 outputs interconnected, ready for splitting into any number of FOH, monitor, recording and multi-purpose mic configurations. Also included is a high quality rack-mounted powered monitor, configured to PFL any of the 48 splitter channels utilizing the Solo Link feature of the DN1248 Plus splitter.
“I’m definitely an analog person,” Doukas adds, “and it makes sense to have the same level of 'rider-friendly' sound quality we have in our consoles in our splitter rack. Analog is ideal for this application—warm sound and plenty of headroom. Of course, that said, we’re looking forward to beta-testing a Midas XL8: digital or analog, if it sounds like Midas and KT, it’ll work for me.”
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Ted Subotky, Head Audio Engineer at The Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts, with the Midas & KT equipment that keeps the KCPA sounding world-class.
Group photo, left to right: Terry Schwartz, Master Electrician; Bill Mengel, Production Manager; Peter Bell, Head Carpenter and Ted Subotky, Head Audio Engineer.
Editors' information:
Klark Teknik was founded in 1974 and in the years immediately following, their innovative approach to design and development allowed them to introduce some truly groundbreaking designs. Klark Teknik was responsible for the world’s first digital delay and digital reverb units, however it was their concepts for equalisation devices that really changed the world of professional audio resulting in the DN370 and the famous DN360. Today Klark Teknik continues to bring innovation in design and dedication to engineering and sonic quality in both the analogue and digital realm of signal processing.
Midas live performance mixing consoles have been used by the world's most demanding sound engineers, performers and rental companies for three decades. The company strives to raise the standards of sonic quality through its programme of continual research and development, implementing new control functionality and user-friendly desk operation to anticipate and accommodate the ever-evolving needs of audio professionals who specify Midas consoles for their major tours, festivals, international events, broadcast projects and prestigious fixed installations.