Live shows are a regular affair in Kolkata – rock bands performing in a club or Bollywood artists playing at a large open air venue. Among all the rental companies in Kolkata, one name steals the spotlight –Universal Sound and Light owned by Amitava Biswas a veteran in the audio, video and lighting industry. Recently USL was associated with the sensational Bollywood music production, singer-song-writer duo Vishal-Shekhar at Imperial Blue Superhit Night at Kolkata. For this show, Amitava and his team installed RCF’s stellar line-array series TTL 55-A along with TTS 56-A subwoofers. The entire show was mixed on DiGiCo SD10. Hi-Tech Audio Systems Pvt. Ltd., the authorized distributor of both RCF and DiGiCo provided the technical support for the show.
Aside from the speakers, USL’s Director Amitav Biswas confirmed that the RCF TTL -55 purchases was driven by the relationship the company has traditionally enjoyed with the Italian manufacturer and its India distributor Hi-Tech Audio Systems. Universal Sound and Light installed 10 pieces per side of the three-way TTL 55-A (total 20 nos.) active line source on each side in conjunction with 10 pieces of TTS 56-A subs
“RCF TTL 55-A is designed to be easily scalable from few modules for medium and small venues to full size arrays for very large open air spaces. Throughout the year we provide audio support to dynamic events and RCF TTL 55-A is the premium upgrade for our inventory. With the TTL 55-A, we have escalated our audio support and services,” says Amitava Biswas, Managing Director, Universal Sound and Light.
Tosief Shaikh, FOH engineer for Vishal-Shekhar was impressed with the power and precision of the RCF system used at the show. “I must say that RCF TTL-55 speakers are hidden beasts. They delivered super powerful, tight clean sound and did justice with my mix. Powerful system is something which we always look for when it comes to the dynamic duo Vishal-Shekhar’s live shows.”. Tosief adds on, “Technical expert from Hi-Tech Audio Systems who is always providing us endless support and solutions in regards to DiGiCo as well RCF did an excellent job post and during the show. You can always count on them for show support. Lastly cheers to Amitava and his team for their cutting-edge RCF and DiGiCo inventory.”
The entire TTL 55-A system along with TTS 56-A subwoofers was controlled by the latest RCF RDNet 3.1. Ganesh Thapliyal, System Application Engineer from Hi-Tech Audio Systems led USL’s technical team to rig and align the system for the show. “RCF RDNet 3.1 is the latest marvel from RCF. The major update of the RDNet (Networked Management System) sees much improvement such as direct control of the on-board high-pass filter, a new Shape Designer and a Bass Shaper function. RDNet 3.1 not only controls loudspeakers, it can also be paired with digital matrixes or amplifiers”. Ganesh further shares, “For better end result, I have done a detailed acoustic 3D simulation of the line arrays and sub arrays on EASE Focus 3. Tosief prefers working on DiGiCo, and USL was able to provide two DiGiCo SD10s for both FOH and monitor mixing. We did rack sharing on the consoles during the show. The entire show went smooth with RCF and DiGiCo.”
Vishal-Shekhar’s live show in Kolkata gave USL the opportunity to see how powerful the RCF TTL-55 system was, and how efficient it could be with its onboard DSP. Amitava Biswas says “We started to think hard about our own rental infrastructure and knew that TTL-55 would open up a new revenue stream by enabling us to present the market with a premium system that compliments large shows and events.”
“Amitava is a visionary and he spearheads a company that has a landmark market reputation for the past 2 decades. Universal Sound and Light has inscribed an important chapter of RCF TTL’s success story in India”, explains Nirdosh Aggarwal, Director Sales, Hi-Tech Audio Systems.
In conclusion, Rajan Gupta, Managing Director of Hi-Tech Audio Systems stated, “Universal Sound and Light commitment towards quality and efficiency is tenacious. They are determined to provide top line audio inventories to artists and audio engineers. The TTL-55 and TTS 56 set-up will surely strengthen USL’s technical support and skills. This is the outset of a glorious era for Universal Sound and Light with RCF.”