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| Company
profile |
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| Who
exactly is Lafont Audio Labs? |
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company bears the name of the french designer Jean-Pierre Lafont, |
| who for
the past twenty or so years, has been developping audio |
| equipment
for the music and TV/film post-production industry. |
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| This
company makes truly high quality equipment with outstanding |
| specs and
performance. The current line of analog consoles includes |
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Panoramix 5.1 and 7.1 large format mixing board, |
| Esterel
series of ADR/Foley dubbing console, |
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Transfer console for machine rooms. |
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| The firm
also makes a range of rackmounting mic preamps, filters, |
| dynamics
units and cinema FX units. |
| As a
whole, the Lafont range of products shows quality of design and |
| construction,
attention to detail and an understanding of the needs of |
| the
market with convenient presentation and ease of use. |
| All
systems are built in Paris and Montreal. |
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(Mel lambert - Mix
magazine). |
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| Professional Audio News |
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MEDALLION PFA PURCHASE 2nd
LAFONT PANORAMIX FILM CONSOLE
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| It's all smiles around
the Panoramix at Toronto's PFA Medallion. |
| Pictured left to right
are: |
| Jean-Pierre Lafont (Lafont
Audio Labs); Michael Flanigan (PFA Medallion); |
| Rob Poretti (Sascom);
Wally Weaver (PFA Medallion) |
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TORONTO, CANADA - In preparation for a busy fall season, PFA Medallion,
the prestigious Toronto based film and television post production facility, has purchased
a second Lafont Panoramix film console. The
console, which is identical to the one installed in July of last year, will be installed
in a new room that is currently under construction at their Peter Street location.
The Panoramix is an in-line, film / audio post multi-format mixing console (32
to 96 channels, up to 296 inputs), with Discrete 5.1 Panning, 7.1 Monitoring and dynamics
on each I/O module. Each module offers 2 line inputs simultaneously routed to five 6 buss
stems, plus a monitor return input routed to an 8 Channel Surround Monitoring Matrix. A
4-group film/bus (Pec Direct) monitor switching system and Uptown Moving Fader
Automation are standard. An optional module with access to four 8 bus stems for 7.1
routing is also available.
At Medallion PFA, the 80 channel frame is fitted with 68 mono dual line input
modules with compressors, 4 stereo input modules, an HD834 Telephone Simulator, a 1,024
point TT patchbay, and Flying Faders(r) automation. This configuration will permit the
simultaneous processing of 212 channels of audio.
POST FACILITIES EMBRACE NEW
LAFONT PROCESSORS
Within weeks of the product hitting the market, major film & T.V. post facilities
on both coasts were installing the new LP Series
audio post processors from Lafont Audio Labs.
Skywalker Sound expanded their extensive collection of Lafont processors with
the addition of 5 more LP-23 Telephone Simulators
and
6 LP-24 Cinema Filters.
In Hollywood, facilities adding the
LP-24 Cinema Filters
include Todd AO Studios, Universal Pictures, International Recording, Ground Control
and Chase Productions.
Also in Hollywood, the "must have"
LP-23 Telephone
Simulator was added by Sony Pictures (3), CBS Television (3), Warner Bro's,
Soundelux, Enterprise 2 and Westwind Media. In addition, V.D.I. (All Post)
ordered 3 LP-22 ADR / Foley Processors.
Santa Monica based Zacuto Audio added 2 of the
LP-21
Dual Mic Preamps and will make extensive use of the unit's MId Side Processing
capability, as will Vancouver based Post Modern Sound.
On the East cost, Sound One In New York added "the first of many"
LP-24 Cinema Filters and 4 LP-28
Theater Speaker Silencers.
19" Processors