Outline's H.A.R.D. monitors in use at the Vatican's Christmas Concert.
The new H.A.R.D. 212 monitors from Italian manufacturere Outline have been used for the very first time at the Christmas Concert in The Vatican, a high profile event held in the Paul VI hall, presented by Cristina Parodi and broadcast across Italy at Christmas by Canale 5. Since the first edition in 1993, this show has brought together hundreds of foreign and Italian artists, who accept the invitation of the Church of Rome. Different cultures, origins, races, ages and colours, but united to perform in the name of a very meaningful cause.

Once again this year some of the world’s top artists participated, including Cranberries’ vocalist Dolores O’Riordan, Terence Trent D'Arby, Sasha, Josè Feliciano, Russell Watson, Massimo Ranieri, Edoardo Bennato, Elisa, Tiziano Ferro, the Schola Cantorum Cantate Domino treble voice choir from Belgium, the New Millennium Voices Gospel Choir from New York and the highlight of the evening - a live link-up with Los Angeles and the great Ray Charles.

All the artists’ songs were played and arranged by Maestro Renato Serio’s III Millennio Orchestra. Rome audio-video rental company Immagina decided to use Outline’s new H.A.R.D. 212 monitors and achieved great results. Filippo Rocca, the company’s owner and technical director of the event for seven years, states: "I was looking for monitors which had to be truly compact and very low profile for set production reasons and ensure linear frequency response, but also be able to come up with high SPL without risking feedback. The new Outline enclosures have all these features."

(Lee Baldock)


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