Borås Stadsteater, a municipality-owned theater, has invested in KLANG: Technologies and replaced its outdated PA system with an Alcons LR7 system, as well as a new Allen & Heath dLive digital mixing system.
Borås Stadsteater’s head of sound, Tobias Walka, explained the choice of in-ear for monitoring at the venue.
“Since the need for in-ear mixing was becoming more and more prominent, we started looking at solutions that would fit our resources. For the most part, sound engineering for our productions is a one-man gig. It’s very seldom we have the personnel to do a separate monitor mix, which we feel is a must when it comes to IEM, so we turned to personal monitoring. We looked at the integrated solutions within the digital mixing system and after a bit of research we came across the KLANG system, distributed in Sweden by Electrosound, and instantly felt that this was the solution we wanted.”
Walka said that it was the demo KLANG:app that lead the theater to select this system, and that it remains a huge advantage to using the system.
“Apart from our friends at Electrosound talking very enthusiastically about the system, there was a lot of buzz around the KLANG solution online so we downloaded the demo KLANG:app and were instantly hooked,” said Walka. “Our mixing system was already fitted with Dante, so we used that to connect to our KLANG:fabrik unit. Apart from the curve of learning Dante, the setup was very simple. The KLANG:app is very intuitive and easy to navigate, especially when used on a larger iPad or Mac/PC. We hooked it up, patched it, assigned channels to users, added names etc. – and it all worked on the first try. The KLANG outputs are connected to six Sennheiser EW300 wireless IEMs and we premiered the system on our production of the musical Cabaret, using IEMs for the four-piece band and the two lead actors.”
