B4 In Paris: Concluding On A (Very!) High Note
From EAW Europe Sales Manager Sean Martin
The B4 Roadshow tour bus pulled up in the outskirts of Paris at the premises of Axente, France, close to Orly airport. The weather was cool and windy, which did not bode well for the next day's Bootcamp and Tradeshow.
Paris was the only destination on the tour that gave us the opportunity to actually hold the roadshow at the distributor's premises. In this case the Bootcamp was held in the massive car park of Axente and parent company Impact Evenement.
This gave us for the first time, the opportunity of setting up the systems the day before we opened to the public, although the speed with which the scaffold towers went up did make us think that spare day could easily get
used up!
The following day opened to brilliant sunshine of the type we'd witnessed in Barcelona. The mixed crowd from France, Russia and Belgium all appreciated the benefits of Gunness Focusing from all locations of the car park.
The new EAW UMX.96 new digital mixing console was a particular hit. In fact, run-throughs of the UMX.96 almost outweighed the system demonstrations, such was the interest.
A fantastic French lunch was followed by continued system demonstrations at high SPL, unhindered by either neighbors or the local constabulary. This was followed by the Tradeshow, held inside the Axente facility.
As the tour bus drove into the sunset, (and we said goodbye to our truly great bus driver, Werner, pictured at right), the next day (Friday) saw the end of the B4 tour as the Smaart School was enjoyed by a small number of solely Belgians (which we found strangely mystifying), held in one of the many rooms inside the Axente facility.
The conclusion: the B4 Roadshow tour of Europe has been a well worthwhile exercise and presents optimism about continuing possibly later in the year. As a tired but satisfied crew made it's way back to various locations on the planet, just the thought that the tour might have made EAW systems even more listenable left a satisfying feeling. (More photos of our stop in Paris follow.)
