Merlin PA charms the Digital Snake

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Andrew Low Jul 25 2008, 1:00am

UK sound rental company add RSS Digital Snakes to its hire stock

RSS’ S-4000 system is providing 24 bit/96 kHz audio quality to the Nottinghamshire-based rental company, Merlin PA, who now has two Digital Snakes.

The company recently used the Digital Snakes for Newmarket Nights, an evening horse race meeting at the Newmarket Racecourse, which was followed by a concert orgainised by Liz Hobbs Concerts & Events Ltd. This year’s show included Madness, Jools Holland, Boyzone and Girls Aloud.

Merlin has used the Digital Snake for similar events held by the Liz Hobbs; most recently for a Bryan Adams concert with a record breaking 25,000 people in attendance.

Merlin’s typical set up consists of two stageboxes and two monitor pull-offs, which provides up to 80 channels of digital audio.

“Usually our Cat5 runs are 100 meters; however, with another gigabit switcher at the 100m mark, we have extended out to 200 meters,” explained Graham White from Merlin.

“The Snakes have proved themselves absolutely bomb-proof. We had them up and running within 10 minutes of being delivered. They cost a bit more money than the ‘orrible analogue copper cable alternative, but they are completely cost-effective. If you run over this multicore in a van, you can still use it.”
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