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A Sri Lankan event management company has received the country’s first Yamaha CL5 digital mixing console, widely considered the ultimate in digital live sound integration.
Imagine Entertainment, the company responsible for sound at some of the biggest live concerts, beauty pageants, fashion shows and product launches the country has witnessed to date, recently took delivery of this global benchmark in sonic purity from the Yamaha Music Centre, which has represented the Yamaha brand in Sri Lanka for 92 years.
“The Yamaha CL5 is one of the items of equipment specified by many touring international artisteson their technical riders, and the acquisition of one represents a quantum leap in our capability to offer best-in-class digital audio mixing,” said Imagine Entertainment Managing Director Sajith Kodikara. “Our sound engineers are thrilled to have this technological masterpiece to play with.”
Yamaha Music Centre General Manager – Sales & Marketing, Shane Joachim said: “The arrival of the first CL5 digital mixing console in Sri Lanka is an exciting milestone for the company and the local sound industry. Yamaha is already a leading pro audio brand in our country and the CL5 will reiterate its status at the upper end of the spectrum in sound reproduction.”
Representing a quarter century of evolution, Yamaha’s CL series of mixing consoles have been deployed at some of the world’s biggest events since their launch in spring and summer 2012. Designed to offer accessible mixing, sonic purity and advanced sound shaping capabilities that will give the most imaginative artists and engineers unprecedented creative freedom, the line-up comprises three consoles, the CL1, CL3 and CL5, ranging in capacity from 48 to 72 mono + eight stereo inputs. All feature 16 Digitally Controlled Amplifiers (DCAs) and 24 mix/eight matrix output busses.
The CL5 integrates products and effects from world leaders such as Rupert Neve Designs, Audinate, and Steinberg that together with Yamaha’s Virtual Circuitry Modelling (VCM) technology deliver a sublime balance of sound, performance, and features that makes its output indistinguishable from the original analogue sound.
The Yamaha Music Centre is currently the only music store in the country offering customers world class musical instruments, home audio, pro audio and studio recording equipment under one roof. The Yamaha brand’s legacy in Sri Lanka traces its beginnings to Michael Caderamanpulle Snr retailing Yamaha pianos in 1922 under the name ‘Yamaha Music Centre’.
