The Palace of Arts, Budapest and Hungary’s cultural hub that opened in 2005, recently added a DiGiCo SD10 mixing console to its audio inventory further its exceptional status as a performance venue.
Known to Hungarians simply as Müpa, the venue brings together the many and varied disciplines of the arts in a unique fashion by providing a home for classical, contemporary, popular and world music, as well as jazz, opera, contemporary circus, dance, literature and film.
It has five performance rooms and a further five event places, with the largest space, Béla Bartók National Concert Hall, getting the new DiGiCo SD10.
“The Palace of Arts’ sound engineers gained a lot of experience on DiGiCo consoles, particularly the SD8, during this summer’s festival season,” says Imre Makkay of Chromasound, DiGiCo’s Hungarian distributor that supplied the Palace’s SD10. “They found it very easy to handle, transparent sounding and they always had great backup from the local tech support team.
“In fact, their experience with DiGiCo consoles was always very good,” he continues. “They found the number of input and output channels really impressive and at the moment the DiGiCo SD10 is one of the most rider-compatible consoles in the industry.
“In the Palace of Arts, the technology they use is specified to an extremely high level and to drive the Meyer Sound front PA, they needed to have an absolutely top quality console,” Makkay concludes. “It is unquestionable that the DiGiCo SD10 is just that.”