Avid® (Nasdaq: AVID) recently announced that award-winning sound designer
Gareth Owen is using Avid’s flagship live sound system, Avid VENUE | S6L to mix
the Broadway musical theatre production of A Bronx Tale at the Longacre Theatre in
New York—the largest musical theatre production to use the powerful system to
date. Powered by the MediaCentral® Platform, the industry’s most open, tightly
integrated and efficient platform designed for media, Avid VENUE | S6L ensures that
theatre audiences enjoy the best sound quality while providing sound designers like
Owen with the processing capabilities to create the most compelling musical theatre
experience possible.

Directed by two-time Academy Award® winner Robert De Niro and four-time Tony
Award® winner Jerry Zaks, A Bronx Tale is based on the critically acclaimed play
that inspired the now classic film. While the musical adaptation is the biggest
musical theatre production to use Avid VENUE | S6L to date, the mix position is one
of the smallest on Broadway for a full-blown musical, taking up just eight seats,
which includes the sound operator and all equipment. Owen turned to a 32-fader
Avid VENUE | S6L system with three fully loaded Stage 64 I/O racks to support the
180 channels needed for the demanding production.

Part of Avid’s comprehensive tools and workflow solutions to create, distribute and
optimize media, Avid VENUE | S6L enables operators to mix faster and more easily
through its custom fader layouts and advanced touchscreen workflows, giving them
immediate hands-on access to the most important channels and functions in each
scene.

“Avid VENUE | S6L can become whatever you need it to be,’ said Owen. “It’s quite
revolutionary the way you can just bring up anything you want onto the encoders
and custom fader banks, including plug-ins. Nobody else is doing that as
impressively or as effectively. I love the fact that there’s enough processing on
board to be able to explore ideas that traditionally I haven’t been able to do
because of hardware or software limitations. I now have the resources to explore
my creative ideas.’

The purity of Avid VENUE | S6L’s new preamplifier design, 64-bit processing, and 96
kHz sample rate have even influenced Owen’s microphone choices. He explains, “It
sort of sent me on a voyage of investigation to discover other things in my signal
path that that weren’t as clean and clear as I thought they were, because the S6L is
so transparent and so clean that it’s exposing things that in the past I’ve never
noticed.’

“Avid’s preeminent customer community of award-winning sound designers and
engineers are choosing Avid VENUE | S6L to deliver the world’s premiere musical
theatre productions,’ said Tom Cordiner, Senior Vice President of Global Sales at
Avid. “Avid VENUE | S6L gives Gareth Owen the pristine sound and creative options
he needs to create a unique audio experience for A Bronx Tale.’