CMU School of Drama


Friday, November 05, 2021

Sound Designer Tony Gayle opts for JBL’s advanced line array for Bob Marley Musical

TPi : Musical theatre Sound Designer, Tony Gayle, has chosen HARMAN’s JBL Professional VTX A8 next-generation line array as his preferred PA system for the new production of Get Up, Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical. A total of 24 JBL VTX A8 enclosures and 10 accompanying JBL VTX B18 single 18” subs have been rigged at the Lyric Theatre in London’s West End.

1 comment:

Margaret Shumate said...

Intersting. I've never heard of JBL being specified on a major production. I was not particularly surprised by that fact, since I knew JBL from a pretty young age dismissively as "Junk But Loud," and most of their products live up to that. Lately, however, I've been seeing their products more and more, and a couple times I've even noted that they sounded pretty good. And this line clearly impressed Gayle. It definitely seems like they've been upping their game in the last five or ten years and moving from a mostly consumer brand in the same vein as Bose or Beats: marketing robust low end as sound quality, usually at the expense of a remotely flat frequency response; to an actually respectable brand moving into higher end commercial markets. It will be interesting to see whether they really thrive there, or if they end up contracting back into the consumer market.