The audio team at Kings Place, a central London venue that presents a range of events every day, including corporate presentations, live music and recording sessions, recently added Point Source Audio SERIES8 CO-8WL omnidirectional microphones for daily use in many of these applications.
“The adventure with Point Source Audio started out with us looking for some new lav mics,” says Gerardo Marrone, audio & recording manager at Kings Place Music Foundation. “We had always used a different brand in the past, but we decided to try something else through our long-term supplier, Autograph Sound. We were looking for something that could work just as well but be more contained within the budget. They sent us a lot of options from various brands and quite a few models from Point Source Audio.”
After going through and testing each of the options, Marrone decided to invest in the SERIES8 CO-8WL, an IP 57-rated waterproof lavalier model measuring 4 mm in diameter and stated to handle 136 dB maximum SPL. It’s available with interchangeable connectors and in a variety of color options.
“I fell in love with how natural the omni capsules were sounding for lavaliers,” Marrone states. “The less you stress a capsule to be directional, the better it sounds and you avoid that very annoying level drop when people turn their head and go off-axis. As a live sound engineer, that is very relieving.”
The initial investment was made for corporate events, he explain”. “I don’t only use it on a traditional lavalier application for conferencing for panels on stage, I use them for anything that requires zero amplification in situ, such as interviews.
“Point Source Audio has a lot of different mic mounting options and I’m looking forward to trying them out,” he concludes. “We actively look at different types of technology to try and do things differently. People use Kings Place as an experimental location because we offer them a different approach to live shows and sound perception.”
