Kino ika has an overall area of 2,468 m2 and features two auditoria - the Katedrala hall (capacity: 800 standing or 450 seated) and the Komuna hall (capacity: 120 seated).
A key part of the venue is its technical infrastructure, which is designed to support even the most demanding multimedia acts. Installed by Ljubljana-based Audio Pro, the two M7CLs were specified because of their ability to fulfil the requirements of modern music, theatre and dance productions.
One of the consoles is installed in the Katedrala hall tone booth. Located at balcony height by the auditorium's rear wall, this provides a dedicated technical environment for front of house audio, video and lighting engineers, when working with productions like dance, fashion shows and cinema shows which do not allow for a conventional FOH setup in the stalls. The second M7CL, meanwhile, is movable and used for shows when a conventional FOH position is in use.
"We had to ensure that the mixing consoles could run up to 16 lines from the monitor position and up to eight from the FOH position," says Audio Pro's Ale tefancic. "It had to have total recall and the ability to run four separate outputs for the FOH PA system, as the hall's PA is running left, right, centre and sub clusters through four different matrix outputs."
He continues, "Most importantly, the consoles have be extremely reliable, as the venue regularly puts on up to 20 shows a month. The M7CL was the only product that met all our demands, is widely known amongst technicians and it also has the best price to performance ratio."
(Jim Evans)
