Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre invests further in Shure
Published: ASIA
AUSTRALIA: Having purchased 34 channels of Shure’s UHF-R L3 and UHF-R J5 range of microphones in 2009, the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre has recently invested in additional products from the manufacturer. The MCEC purchased 20 channels of the brand’s UHF-R L3 and UHF-R J5 wireless systems.
‘Over the past couple of years we have watched our usage of radio microphones go through the roof,’ said Michael Walker, infrastructure and equipment manager at the MCEC. ‘We have quite a large facility that can accommodate three to four conferences simultaneously, as well as special events. We realised that we were cross-hiring more and more microphones in from our partners just to cover our client’s wireless needs. One of the main implications of doing that is frequency management problems, because we are one facility which means we have to take very careful control of our frequency management.’
By cross hiring radio microphones from its business partners, the MCEC audio department realised that it were at risk of getting cross-talking frequencies due to the ranges that its partners had available from day to day. Consequently, Mr Walker made the decision to purchase another 36 channels of Shure UHF-R H4 radio microphones to compliment the frequency spectrum already in use at MCEC. These microphones were supplied through Soundcorp.
‘Shure URD wireless systems are certainly at the top level of professional radio microphones,’ added Mr Walker. ‘The Wireless Workbench software facilitates very up to the minute frequency management. We have a very unique venue in that we have multiple events running simultaneously in a very large space so frequency management of our wireless spectrum is an absolutely critical part of microphone selection. The Shure solution is ideally suited,’ he enthused. Shure is distributed in Australia by Jands.