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Curtis Craig
Assistant Professor of Sound Design, Penn State University
"Since we have now used the EMMAs on two very different types of shows, a musical - Parade & a play with music - Mother Courage and Her Children, I thought it would be worthwhile to give you some feedback as to what we thought of the speakers in what could be considered non-typical usage.
Parade
The EMMAs were used as a Left-Right music system for the acoustic enhancement of a full orchestra. Understand that this is likely the hardest thing for a speaker system to pull off -- transparently emulating acoustic instruments alongside of real acoustic instruments. That said, the results were very impressive, with the speakers being able to be forceful when necessary, and still not sound 'forced' or 'pinched'. We were extremely pleased with the overall transparency of the EMMAs sound - there were many times over the course of the show that amplified and un-amplified instruments acoustically blended without the typical differential in the quality of sound. For reference, the EMMAs were in a system that included components from Yamaha, QSC, Crown, EAW, and d&b audiotechnik, the pit had transducers from Earthworks, Rode, Sennheiser, AKG, Audio-Technica, CAD, Shure, and Audix; the Yamaha DM2000 was clocked at 96k.
Mother Courage
In a completely different style was Mother Courage and Her Children; a play with music that used the EMMAs as principle components part of a very large distributed surround sound system (forget 5.1, more like 18.4). The score consisted of sounds ranging from metallic bangs and clangs to the ever-present rumble of the war looming in the distance. Once again, the relative size of the acoustic image from the EMMAs was extremely effective and impressive; the ambient sounds and music were not confined to the 'box'. The sound image emanating from the speakers seemed much larger than the surface of the boxes, and allowed the sounds of the score to sound less like electronically amplified sounds, and more like acoustic entities. In using the EMMAs for the light amplification of speaking and singing voices, the sound could best be described as extremely lifelike - at times it became difficult to hear where the acoustic voice left off and the EMMAs took over. Once again the EMMAs showed they could work at very subtle levels and be able to effectively produce very musical and pleasing results.
For two very different projects in two very demanding applications
the EMMAs were very impressive alongside of some very well
established traditional performers in the sound industry. They more
than held their own, they flourished; I would not hesitate in using
them from any of our projects here at Penn State, or in my freelance work."
"Thank you"
Curtis Craig
Assistant Professor of Sound Design, Penn State University
Scott Dupre
Live Sound Engineer, Annie Moses Band
"The Annie Moses Band are a group of virtuosic instrumentalists and vocalists playing styles ranging from classical to bluegrass to pop. Their dynamic instrumentation and arrangements demand consistent sonic clarity in a huge variety of spaces, and their performances have really tested the limitations of many varied sound systems. I have found the A-line Acoustics EMMA Solutions-1 to be the defining tool in their performances, providing unparalleled clarity and high definition sound--pure sonic excellence. I never find them to be harsh or fatiguing, as I have found with other boxes. They set-up and tear down in Annie Moses Band with EMMA Solutions-1 minutes and they look great too. With the EMMAs, mixing has become a real pleasure and they have taken the Annie Moses Band's live performances to a new level."