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TruCru chooses TiMax PanLab for Eden Project’s Christmas Light Experience

Cornwall’s Eden Project presented an elevated audio experience for visitors to its Christmas Light Experience this year. The annual event transforms the biomes of the attraction into an illuminated canvas. To create a deeper and more engaging audience experience in the Mediterranean biome’s Citrus Grove - home to the event’s showcase feature - Redruth-based audio supplier TruCru lifted the experience with a spatialised audioscape, made possible by TiMax PanLab.

TruCru has provided audio for the Christmas Light Experience at Eden Project for four consecutive seasons and traditionally supplies a cinematic stereo soundtrack throughout the Rainforest biome using Martin Audio loudspeakers. The update in scope was triggered by attendance at the Focusrite Group’s Audio Reproduction Open Days, by Tru Cru as a Martin Audio rental partner.

“I’d always imagined a spatial element for the Citrus show, but the cost and scale of traditional immersive processors made it unachievable”, says TruCru project manager Toby Bodman. “Hearing TiMax PanLab in action changed everything. Suddenly, an immersive system was entirely viable within Eden’s budget.”

With the idea pitched successfully to the Eden Project, TruCru worked with the TiMax team to redesign the available rental inventory for a spatial delivery. The loudspeaker layout combined multiple layers of Martin Audio FlexPoint loudspeakers - FP12s flown at height, with more FP12s positioned wide-left and right, concealed within planting, with further speakers positioned around the audience zone. Additional FP8 ceiling points were integrated where biome load limits allowed.

With Eden already expressing interest in returning to the format next year, the success of the project has positioned spatial audio as a new and useful creative tool for future programmes. For this year’s show pre-mixed 7.1.4 stems provided by the content creator were used to keep things simple. Going forward, however, the team is already planning to expand automation and movement directly from TiMax PanLab.

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