MTV Africa Music Awards (MAMAS) with mc²56.
Lawo's Rental Partner Audio Broadcast Services delivers audio equipment to Nairobi.
On Saturday, 10th October 2009, MTV presented the second Africa Music Awards (MAMAS). For this mega event, the Rastatt based rental company Audio Broadcast Services (ABS) delivered two mc²56 mixing consoles that were used for the broadcast mix and a separate music mix. In addition, ABS organised the setup for the live broadcast and recording.
The Dutch OB specialist Cinevideogroup, who ordered the consoles from ABS, also provided a flyaway production unit for the twelve-camera HD broadcast from the MOI sports centre in Nairobi, Kenya. For the broadcast, with camera direction by Paul Shyvers, the show featured complete band performances by renowned artists like Jean Wyclef, former member of the Fugees, the Sengalese-American R&B singer Akon, and many other African superstars.
Huub Lelieveld of Cinevideogroup was in charge of the technical setup and mixed the broadcast output for the show. "I chose Lawos because I use them daily and they have proven to be both extremely reliable and infinitely flexible. Because of the very limited space in the mix rooms, I chose the smaller mc²56 instead of the mc²66, my usual choice."
In the MOI, fibre cables – also provided by ABS - connected the mix rooms to the Lawo DALLIS frames on stage, with a total of 112 mic inputs for both music, ambience and presentation mics. Line outputs provided several feeds to the FOH and the comms lines.
In the music mix room the legendary Tim Summerhayes mixed the live music on stage to stereo, plus feeds to a main and a backup ABS multitrack system connected to the Lawo core via optical MADI.
The recording proceeded flawlessly and was broadcast worldwide on MTV BASE and several other MTV stations.
