Taronga Zoo looks to Shure for royal visit
Published: ASIA
AUSTRALIA: The PA People has installed a Shure Axient Wireless Management Network into Taronga Zoo in Sydney. With the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge attending the zoo as part of their recent Australian tour, the PA People – which has worked with zoo for several years providing installed audio systems – had expressed concerns about the significant level of media and activity around the harbour and how that might affect the performance of the Zoo’s radio microphones housed within the Bird Sanctuary. With the royals due to partake in the QBE Free Flight Bird Show in front of an international audience, it was critical that the microphones worked flawlessly.
‘We decided that the Shure Axient Wireless Management Network would be the ideal solution as it is able to provide redundancy and frequency hopping to ensure a line always remains working,’ explained Dave Wright, technical account manager event communications for the PA People.
Australian distributor Jands arranged for the Zoo to secure a demo system for the event, confident that it was the right answer for mission critical delivery in an RF hostile environment such as this.
‘We were bought in to support in an operational role that day,’ added Mr Wright. ‘After training by Jands, we had two staff install the demo system and we operated the system on the day. There were only four wireless microphones used – two handhelds and two lapels – that performed flawlessly. It was definitely the correct solution.’