AGORA TAKES SINGLE BIGGEST SD7 DELIVERY
Italian rental company, Agorà, has recently taken delivery of no less than four DiGiCo SD7 digital mixing consoles, the biggest single delivery to date.
Based in L’Aquila in central Italy, Agorà’s high profile client list, which encompasses the majority of the country’s top tours, means that its inventory of consoles - which was already impressive, comprising six D5s, and a D1 – needed to be augmented. Enter the SD7s, the purchase of another two of which are planned for 2009.
The four SD7s were set up in one room and the assembled engineers very quickly got to grips with them with only a minimal amount of instruction, followed by a Q&A session.
Product support was, as always, high on DiGiCo’s list of priorities for the sale, so during August, DiGiCo’s managing director, James Gordon, visited Agorà’s premises to head up a training programme that had been organised.
“Agorà has a long association with DiGiCo,” says Stefano Cantadori, president of Audio Link. “It was one of the first companies to invest in the D5 and has an impressive stock of both digital and analogue desks. Agorà already had the edge in the Italian market and the purchase of the SD7s has reinforced that.”
“We decided to invest in the SD7 it out performs every other console currently on the market,” says Wolfango Di Amici from Agora. “Not only does it have an incredible feature set, but it is, quite simply, the best sounding console we have come across. We can only assume that this is because of the new Super FPGA that DiGiCo uses in its new consoles.”
“The training day was very exciting, with an unbelievable amount of top class engineers attending, including directors of Agorà, Wolfango and Vittorio Di Amici, Andrea Corsellini (Vasco Rossi’s engineer), sound designer Daniele Tramontani and Paolucci Polidori and Ghini.”
“Everyone liked the desk and were impressed that the answer to each question they asked James about what it could do was ‘yes’!,” concludes Cantadori. “The team at Agorà is now completely confident that it can successfully address the future needs of its clients.”
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