Platinum Sound - Yamaha Indonesia Aids Popular Bali Jazz Festival

For the past six years, the Balinese town of Ubud has attracted an increasing following of global jazz fans, thanks to the annual Ubud Village Jazz Festival. Held in early August, Yamaha Indonesia has been a Platinum sponsor of the event since its second year. This year Yamaha provided a RIVAGE PM7 digital mixing system and DZR series powered loudspeakers - used for the first time at the festival since their launch earlier in 2018 - as well as technical support.

Ubud has been a centre of the creative arts for many years. Coming to international attention in the 1930s, the town is still a centre of artistic excellence in Indonesia. First taking place in 2010, The Ubud Village Jazz Festival (UVJF) was founded by Balinese musician/composer Yuri Mahatma and promoter/recording studio owner Anom Darsana. It has quickly grown to attract high quality jazz performers from around the world.

UVJF operates very much as a community event, with the involvement and support of local artistic organisations, a mission to educate and cross-promotion with other Balinese festivals. This year the festival took place on 10th-11th August and featured performances by 24 jazz artists across three stages, including the winners of the Ubud International Jazz Day Youth Band competition, which took place in April. “Our aim is to put a smile on the faces of 5,000 people, irrespective of age, ability, creed or wealth,” says Yuri.

Yamaha Commercial Audio systems featured on all three of the festival’s stages. On the main (Giri) stage, the RIVAGE PM7 system with Rio3224-D2 I/O racks supplied by Yamaha Indonesia was used alongside a CL3 digital console for monitors, provided by Soundworks Jakarta, with three DBR12, two DSR112 and two DZR12 powered loudspeakers for artist monitoring.

Front of house Pongky Prasetyo and monitor engineer Rio Felani were very impressed, saying “RIVAGE PM7 is an excellent digital mixing system. It has great sound and the awesome features really spoil sound engineers who use it!”

On the second (Padi) stage, local rental company Doctor Sound provided a CL5 digital console and a Rio3224-D2 I/O rack to take care of mixing both FoH and monitors, while on the third (Subak) stage, UVJF co-founder Anom Darsana’s company Antida Music Production provided a QL5 digital console and two Rio1608-D2 I/O racks to mix FoH and monitors. Here, the FoH PA system comprising two DZR315 three-way powered loudspeakers and four DXS18 powered subwoofers in cardioid mode, plus four DSR112 active monitors.

“The DZR range has an unbelievably crisp and accurate sound. The detail and the power of the loudspeakers is unbelievable,” says Anom.

“Yamaha Indonesia is one of important components of this festival - the support and products that the company provides, and the results they produce, are always excellent,” adds Astrid Sulaiman, a composer, music teacher and director of UVJF. “Many engineers and rental companies visited the festival from throughout Indonesia, including Jakarta, and were very impressed with how the high quality Yamaha systems complemented the excellent jazz musicianship on show.”

After a very successful two days, the sound of music faded from the festival site for another year, but the goodwill will last much longer. “UVJF is a very special, unique festival and we are very happy to support it and the wider artistic community throughout Bali,” says Chihaya ‘Chick’ Hirai of Yamaha Indonesia.

RIVAGE PM7

The RIVAGE PM7 is a digital mixing system consisting of the CSD-R7 Digital Mixing Console, one or more I/O racks for input and output, and dedicated interface cards for network connectivity. The CSD-R7 is the same size as the our flagship RIVAGE PM10 system CS-R10 Control Surface and has the same control layout. With built-in DSP it offers similarly high standards of operation and workflow efficiency in a relatively compact, portable system.

CL Series

Yamaha CL series digital mixing consoles represent a new level of refinement. They offer an evolved experience in accessible mixing, plus sonic purity with sound shaping capabilities that will give the most imaginative engineer unprecedented creative freedom. The CL series embodies the leading standards in live sound in their most advanced, most expressive form.

QL Series

QL series consoles offer all-in-one mixing, processing, and routing capability for small to medium scale live sound, corporate speech events, installations, and much more.

R Series (AD/DA): 2nd-generation

The second generation of R Series Dante-enabled I/O Racks (AD/DA) offers significant advances in sound, reliability, and visual status confirmation. Together with the CSD-R7 control surface, these I/O Racks are components of the RIVAGE PM7 Digital Mixing System. They can also be used with CL and QL series digital mixing consoles.

DZR / DXS XLF Series

New flagship models of high-performance powered loudspeakers combine intelligent 96kHz DSP processor and advanced FIR-X tuning with best-in-class 2000W Class-D amplifiers. DXS XLF Series bass-reflex subwoofer is available. Our first ever Dante models offer sophisticated system integration with digital consoles.

DXR mkII Series

The DXR mkII Series powered loudspeakers are the newly upgraded models of the series that add even more SPL and feature a larger 1.75” Neodymium HF compression driver for extremely clear voice reproduction and musicality with less weight.

DXS Series

DXS Series is a new line of compact, high output powered subwoofers that match perfectly with DSR and DXR full-range powered loudspeakers.

DBR series

DBR Series powered loudspeakers harness the same state-of-the-art Yamaha DSP, amplifier and speaker technologies developed for the professional DSR Series and DXR Series lineups, ensuring high-resolution sound at any output level.

DSR Series

Next-generation active loudspeakers incorporating high performance DSP and all-new high power Class-D amplifiers with PFC switching mode power supply.

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