Yamaha MTX3 Is The Right Fit For Lodi Club
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Keeping the 36,000 inhabitants of Italy’s Casalecchio di Reno healthy is the prime objective of the town’s fitness centre, Lodi Club. And with the benefit of a new Yamaha MTX3 matrix processor with custom control, the club’s audio system is as fit as its instructors.
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The system is designed to play background music and broadcast announcements. Installed several years ago by Bologna-based Rokepo, it was due for an upgrade earlier this year as part of a wider club overhaul. Rokepo’s Roberto Valentino knew that the MTX3 would be ideal for audio routing and system management.
“When the MTX series was launched, I immediately liked the versatility and great potential of this product, in addition to the excellent audio quality we are used to from Yamaha digital mixers,” he says.
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“The only potential problem was that I felt the user interface would be a bit too advanced and ‘open’ for club staff, who are not sound engineers. But there was a ready solution to ensure that involuntarily tampering of parameters and settings would not be possible.”
The solution was a custom Linux control system, developed by Rokepo, which has created a convenient user interface, accessible from a web browser. Combined with the MTX3, it provides a fully zoned system with seven straightforward controls for each - four buttons to select music sources, mute, a volume slider and a button to select whether announcements from a microphone at reception are routed to that zone.
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“The client is really happy with the system, it is a truly optimum solution,” says Roberto. “A remote-controlled, fully zoned system with straightforward user interface which can be further customised if required. And all at an excellent quality/price ratio!”