Live Music
The Wharf has been described in the press as one of the finest live music venues in the South West. The air-conditioned auditorium takes 400 standing or 200 seated - or a combination of both. The stone building has excellent acoustics, and our 16kw sound and 48-channel lighting systems are second to none. With experienced sound and lighting technicians, and 24 track recording facilities, we can offer a live performance facility that is hard to beat. We can also offer 3-chip camera video recording with digital editing and full DVD recording. For special events we can offer up to 4 camera real time recording to broadcast standard. As with all facilities at the Wharf, the concert hall is available for hire for that special promotion.
Technical Information
| General | |
|---|---|
| Auditorium capacity | 200 seated or 400 standing |
| Auditorium size | 16m long x 11m wide |
| Stage size | 11m wide x 5.25m deep |
| Access | Side and rear street loading - direct on to stage |
| Dressing rooms | 2 with showers and WCs |
| Lighting | |
|---|---|
| Control desk | Zero 88 FatFrog |
| Dimming system | 48 channels of Zero 88 DMX Betapack 2 on 100A 3ph supply |
| Lanterns | Large selection of profiles, fresnels, floods, PAR64s, etc. |
| Moving lights | 4 x Martin RoboScan 812 (with dedicated controller) |
| Sound | |
|---|---|
| FOH | 16kw Ramjet line array by Court Acoustics: · Hi-Mid/HF: 8 x 2" conical horns - 1200 watts · Lo-Mid: 8 x 12" FL horns - 3200 watts · Sub/Bass: 16 x 15" FL horn bins - 12000 watts |
| Foldback | 4kw including 6 x 15" wedge monitors and 2-way side/drum fill (5 amplified mixes plus additional send for IEM etc.) |
| Speaker Amplification & Processing | · FOH: MC2 & XTA · Foldback: Crown & Ashly |
| Mixing facilities | Soundcraft GB8 (44:8:3) Soundcraft Spirit E8 (12:2) |
| Effects | Yamaha SPX990 and Alesis MidiVerb 4 |
| Dynamics | Alesis, dbx and Behringer compressors/limiters/gates |
| EQ | Court/BSS/Yamaha |
| Microphones/DIs | Full selection of vocal and instrument mics by Shure, AKG, Beyer and Sennheiser with DIs by DOD and Orchid Electronics |
| Broadcasting & Recording Facilities | · Fully balanced XLR mixer line outputs (L/C/R) · 24-track pre-fade line outputs · AKG condenser audience/ambience mic outputs · ISDN2e facility for OB and live events |