MOSCO HIRE

d&b audiotechnik - Yamaha - EV - MIDAS - Neve - KlarkTeknik - Lexicon - Eventide - dbx - SPL - Shure - Neumann - DPA - AKG - VDC

Our hire department supplies speaker systems and consoles for the pro-audio industry. We can also hire complete sound systems for touring or installations, location recording, and specialised applications. We are constantly updating our hire stock with the very best consoles, outboard and speaker systems available.

To discuss your rental requirements please call

Kevin McGing +353-1-6204974 / +353-87-2423704

or

Mick O’Gorman +353-87-2553318

hire@mosco.ie

Hire news…

The Shawshank Redemption - Irish Tour 2010

Following 2009’s successful run in Dublin, MOSCO once again provided sound equipment for Lane Productions ‘The Shawshank Redemption’ which embarked on a short Irish Tour in Spring 2010. Sound designer Denis Clohessy specified a system which featured numerous loudspeakers mounted on stage for localized effects. In addition, microphones were placed around the set, capturing dialog and using it to drive reverb and other effects to the FOH system, creating a realistic prison atmosphere.  At FOH, sound effects from Q-Lab were input digitally to a Yamaha 01V96 and routed to the appropriate outputs. The console was used to trigger the Q-Lab cues via MIDI, while Q-Lab in turn effected scene changes on the console, again via MIDI.

Dublin Theatre Festival 2009

Once again MOSCO provided sound for three productions staged at the Gaiety Theatre as part of the 2009 Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival, starting with the dazzling Indian music and song extravaganza ‘The Manganiyar Seduction’.

Next up came Cheek By Jowl’s haunting production of Chekhov’s ‘Three Sisters’, and this was followed the British National Theatre’s ‘Pitmen Painters’.

MOSCO installed a d&b system consisting of FOH and stage monitoring for the three weeks of the Festival. The system was controlled by R1 Remote software, and FOH consoles were changed to suit each production’s requirements. This varied from a 52-input Midas H3000 as specified by The Manganiyar Seduction, to a Midas Verona for Three Sisters.

medEia

For their summer 2009 production, Cork city’s foremost theatre company and Ireland’s finest exponent of site - specific work, Corcadorca turned its attention to another great classic, but with a distinct twist. medEia, written in 1998 by Oscar van Woensel, is a modern and unconventional retelling of the Greek tragedy of Medea. Delivered by a chorus, the poetic text was interlaced with the lyrics of groups such as The Beatles, Joy Division, Prince and Madonna.

Louis Lovett, Gina Moxley and Tadhg Murphy made a strong cast, and it involved the same creative team that produced Woyzeck at the Haulbowline Naval Base in 2007 and The Hairy Ape in 2008.

To see medEia, Corcadorca took its audience to the top floor of Cork County Hall; at seventeen storeys high and with panoramic views of the city, The Vertigo Suite was a fitting venue for this quirky production. Sound designer Stevie Jones supplemented Corcadorca’s own d&b Q-Series rig with further inventory from MOSCO, including d&b E8s, E3s and Q10s. MOSCO also supplied DPA 4066 headset mics with Shure RF systems for the production. At FOH, Ciarán Prendergast operated a Yamaha LS9-32 and an SFX system.

The Irish Times was suitably impressed:
‘the meticulous trinity of players set the story at a distance layered by the telling, the impersonation, and the manipulation of the puppets. Mel Mercer’s compositions and Stevie Jones’s sound design richly underscore Paul Keogan’s lighting and set, of desk-high white light-boxes on a sea-blue floor, along which Louis Lovett, Gina Moxley and Tadhg Murphy move in costume designer Joan Hickson’s white suiting..’

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Dublin Dance Festival 2009

The Abbey Theatre, Dublin was the setting for Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s stunning production Apocrifu for Dublin Dance Festival 2009. Weaving together the contrasting styles of its three dancers and the soaring polyphonic choral music of A Filetta, Apocrifu is a powerful and thought provoking work that grapples with the idea of the supremacy of written language over the body. MOSCO supplied a system of d&b E12 and E12-D loudspeakers to supplement The Abbey’s own d&b inventory for this run, in addition to Crown PCC160 microphones and a Lexicon PCM91 for effects.

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MacBecks

MOSCO supplied sound equipment to Long Road’s production of Gary Cooke and Malachy McKenna’s ’MacBecks’, the hilarious musical comedy about the life and times of the famous, (or should that be infamous?) couple. For the initial run at Dublin’s Olympia Theatre, MOSCO supplied a Shure radio mic system, complete with DPA 4066 headset mics. At FOH, The Olympia’s Norman Verso operated sound, running the house Amek/Langley 501 console.

MOSCO’s Kevin McGing had come in to design sound for the show, and for sound effect cues he used MIDI from the Amek to trigger Q Lab running on an Apple MacBook. When the show moved to Cork’s Opera House, FOH duties were taken over by Daragh Murphy. Murphy was familiar with many of the cast, the writers, and the sound designer, having been behind the console for Gary Cooke and Malachy McKenna’s previous project, I,Keano.

Murphy and McGing had pre-programmed the show for Cork Opera House’s Yamaha PM5D console, so getting it all up and running was relatively straightforward. In addition, McGing specified a d&b audiotechnik Q-Series rig which was installed by MOSCO for the Cork run; ‘using Q-Series for this kind of show is just fantastic; it’s the perfect system with headset mics, the gain-before-feedback is terrific’.

Another key creative in the show, and already a regular d&b user, was Jody Trehy - who created the music for the show in addition to co-writing the song lyrics. Once again, the performance of the Q-Series ensured no-one in the audience missed a word or a note.


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My Beautiful Divorce

MOSCO was called on to install and set up a sound system in Dublin’s Gaiety Theatre for Druid Theatre’s production of My Beautiful Divorce during March 2009. Directed by Garry Hynes, the show featured a heart warming and funny one-woman performance from Deirdre O’Kane. The natural sound of Deirdre’s voice was subtly enhanced, using a head-worn DPA 4060 microphone, fed via a Yamaha 01V96 to a system of d&b E12 loudspeakers, flown left and right of the proscenium on each level of the Gaiety. Sound FX were from an Apple MacBook running Q-Lab, with selected cues also routed to d&b C6 loudspeakers on stage. After MOSCO’s Kevin McGing had time-aligned all the loudspeakers to the appropriate point using the integral delay feature of the d&b D6 Amplifiers’ DSP, lighting designer Barry O’Brien EQ’d the system and ran the sound, creating a transparent sound reinforcement that never sounded ‘amplified’.