“La Nouvelle Star” french TV show with APG monitors

“La Nouvelle Star” french TV show with APG monitors

2014-02-01

With over 1M viewers every Thursday night, “La Nouvelle Star” (the French version of Britain’s Pop Idol show), currently hosted on the D8 channel, is a staple of French television. As the final is fast approaching, it’s time to take a look at the audio production which, once again, was entrusted to Parisien rental company, Silence !

 

For this new edition, the stage monitoring system (100% APG) is particularly well thought-out. Designed and managed by Julien Martin, the system combines SMX15s for the leads (be they singers or instruments) and DX15s for the rest. Following in the footsteps of renowned engineer Laurent Midas on the Christophe Mae tour, this was the perfect opportunity for Julien to participate in developing the v2 SMX15 presets for the new DMS48 processors.

Mathieu Delquignies, application support engineer for APG, who worked closely with Julien on the project, explained that, “Settled comfortably for several weeks with lots of sources and great musicians, conditions were ideal for tweaking the monitor presets. For v2, first of all we completely redesigned the filtering, focusing on phase linearity. This gave us extra gain before feedback with even less need for EQ. the aim is for even greater transparency and increased dynamics in order to make the SMX15 the number one “in-ear compatible” wedge on the market.”