Did you know that Bergen (Norway) is the rainiest city in Europe? With a climate ranging from polar to temperate oceanic and humid continental, live production equipment has to endure challenging conditions in Norway indeed.
This is especially true in the touring market. Production house Amas Produksjon Lyd & Lys, based a short distance from Bergen, needs mixing consoles that it can totally rely on and is proud to be the first Norwegian rental house to offer the Yamaha Rivage PM7 system.
Yamaha Scandinavia’s Tomas Nylen with Morten Egil Paulsen and Harald Hole.
“We have tried mixers from different manufacturers over the years, but we ended up using only Yamaha because the quality is so high. We can completely trust them,” says the company’s general manager Morten Egil Paulsen.
“We have never had a single crash or other issue with a Yamaha console, which isn’t something we have experienced with other manufacturers products.” One example of this reliability happened in January, when the company’s technical head Harald Hole mixed a festival on the island of Svalbard – midway between mainland Norway and the North Pole – with a Yamaha QL1 and Rio3224-D.
“It was bitterly cold outside, very warm and humid inside, but the console and I/O rack worked perfectly. It’s the only place in the Norwegian territory where you can meet a polar bear in the middle of a city centre,” smiles Harald.
Harald Hole on a recent European tour with Sol Heilo of Norwegian all-girl pop band Katzenjammer and a Yamaha QL1.
With Amas Produksjon’s inventory of Yamaha CL, QL and TF mixers at work on many events, investing in Rivage PM7 was the obvious way for the company to increase its capacity and, at the same time, step up a level and help to raise the standards of the Norwegian event market.
Morten and Harald contacted Yamaha Scandinavia’s Tomas Nylen and the new Rivage PM7 system was quickly put to work.
“Rivage PM7 is a flagship product, with many new and improved features, but it is still easily recognizable for anyone who has used a Yamaha console,” says Harald. “The workflow is outstanding, it’s easily the fastest console that I have ever worked on.”
“We like how we can customize the console layout and there is such a good selection of high quality plug-ins that you can always find the right tools to solve any task,” he continues.
“We love the magic of the new DaNSe dynamic noise suppressor plug-in. We have also been really impressed by the RND SILK processing and the selected channel section is great. It really brings back the feeling of working on analogue consoles.”
Morten, Harald and the team have already received many bookings and enquiries for the busy summer festival season and are looking forward to showing the Norwegian market how Rivage PM7’s enhanced facilities, backed up with Yamaha’s legendary reliability, is a great festival solution.
“Yamaha consoles are a better long-term investment than mixers by other brands. Just look at the PM5D, which is still up and running worldwide, and we have an M7CL-48 that is still earning money for us. We are sure that Rivage PM7 will be at work with us for just as long,” concludes Morten.
More information on Yamaha Rivage PM7 digital mixing console.
Text & photos: Yamaha.
