The company had already provided a JBL/Crown sound reinforcement infrastructure, for many of the College's other suites and studios in the building's new ultra-modern wing earlier this summer. This had sensitively been tied in to the College's original 1926 Grade II-listed building in Wandsworth by main building contractors BAM Construction.
JBL in-ceiling speakers and Crown amplification have been used throughout - but it is the complex switching and routing requirements of the 12 studios that have made the College a suitable environment for BSS Audio's new generation of Soundweb London DSP's.
The new wing represents part of an overall £100m investment by the College designed to boost vocational training. The second phase of development (for which £30m has been earmarked) will continue back at the original building, where the auditorium is to be replaced with a theatre. Students will not only be able to record from any source in the recording studio at the touch of an interface but live recording will be enabled from the theatre itself.
"One of the lecturers at South Thames College had studied in Newcastle and we were recommended as a result of that, and after the architects and heads of department had visited and seen the studios first hand," explained Digital Village installation manager, Gareth Bevan.
(Jim Evans)
