Black Coffee, a live eventing company in Durban, has recently added a Harman Vi3000 mixing console to its stockpile. Black Coffee has supported Soundcraft for quite some time, using the company’s folio for smaller and non-complex applications and now due to larger and demanding projects, the company had to up the ante with the Vi3000.
While they’ve been happy with other Soundcraft digital consoles, owner Brandon Bunyan and head of sound Brad Ellapen wanted to up their offering with the latest mixing console technology and quality. “We chose the Vi3000 based on our passion for Soundcraft products, the reliability and ruggedness of the products on the road and the compatibility of the Vi3000 with other Dante-enabled products are key buying points for us,’ says Bunyan.
Black Coffee currently owns 31 mixing consoles, majority are Soundcraft consoles, complementing the company’s range of Harman professional products including Crown I-Tech HD amplifiers and JBL VRX, PRX and SRX Series loudspeakers.
“The Soundcraft Vi3000 offers a host of high-end features including a new ergonomic design, 96 channels to mix, new internal SpiderCore 40-bit floating pont DSP, Dante compatibility and much more.
It features a control surface with four Vistonics II touchscreen interfaces, making it the only console in its class that can be used by two engineers at the same time. Providing extensive connectivity ,routing options and offers a host of built-in Lexicon rever-delays, dbx compression and effects,’ says Bunyan.
