The new live music room at famed London jazz club, Ronnie Scott’s, now harnesses a Shure wireless system at the 140-capacity venue.
The new live music room, ‘Upstairs at Ronnie’s’ is a 140-capacity venue, using Shure as the audio backbone of its newly redeveloped upstairs space. The venue sits above the club’s iconic downstairs stage, built from the ground up with the goal of becoming “the greatest small live music venue in the world”.
A fully digital Shure microphone and monitoring signal chain, built around SLX-D+ and Axient Digital PSM, works with a Yamaha S3X grand piano and d&b sound system to create a room that puts intimacy and sound quality at the centre.
The redevelopment gives the club a platform to support a broader range of performance than would traditionally be associated with a small jazz club, supporting classical artists and jazz vocal performances, as well as Cuban music.
Shure SLX-D+ microphones are used alongside an Axient Digial PSM for in-ear monitoring, giving the venue a fully digital signal chain from mic to monitor. Upstairs at Ronnie’s runs four channels of Axient Digital PSM, allowing the team to monitor RF quality and settings directly from the console over the venue’s Dante network.
The Axient Digital PSM system includes Shure’s recent firmware update which introduces Single Carrier (SC) Narrowband, a new digital transmission mode designed to give engineers a familiar and dependable RF setup without the need for complex coordination or advanced antenna configurations.
Stuart Moots, director of market development, Shure UK, commented: “Ronnie Scott’s is one of the most iconic and respected jazz venues in the world, so supporting Upstairs at Ronnie’s with our wireless and monitoring technology is a project we’re incredibly proud to be part of. Seeing our gear underpin a club with this level of heritage, while also helping it open the door to new artists and new audiences, is exactly the kind of partnership that reflects what Shure stands for.”
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