Britannia Row Commit To The Future With Lake’s Newly Expanded LM Series

Britannia Row, one of the UK’s leading pro-audio rental houses, has recently boosted its investment in Lake’s LM Series Digital Audio Processors, having recently purchased another 17 units of the brand new LM 44 and a dozen LM 26s to add to its existing Lake inventory. This new purchase mean Britannia Row now hold a total of 70 Lake LM Series units in stock. 

Formed in 1975, Britannia Row Productions has become one of the world’s leading audio rental companies. The company provides state of the art equipment and highly skilled technicians for a wide variety of events and tours throughout the world.

Explaining his company’s ongoing investment in Lake, Mike Lowe, Finance/Production Director, Britannia Row, said: “We got into Lake in the very early days when the late, great Bruce Jackson came and visited us here in Britannia Row two or three times and it was pretty amazing the stuff that he showed us then. On top of the fantastic facilities that the Lake processor brought to the party, the end result was a great improvement in sound quality, and that was really the kicker for making the move in the first place.”

Bryan Grant, Managing Director at Britannia Row, said: “I think the purchase speaks for itself in many ways. We’ve moved pretty much exclusively to Lake units to control our systems and currently have them on the MTV EMA awards in Belfast where we have a multi zoned K1/Outline system, plus touring systems with Kasabian, The Cure, Will Young, Noel Gallagher, Beady Eye, Duran Duran, Jamiroquai, Young Voices, Tinie Tempah, Cliff Richard and many more.”

Jerry Wing, Technical Head at Britannia Row, also commented: “Lake’s LM 26 and 44 are the building blocks on which all of our systems that require speaker processing operate. The shelves are often completely clear of units as they are all out there doing jobs. I think at several dates this year, we’ve had all units, plus the original DLPs we had all out there doing jobs for us, which goes to show the popularity of the unit and how much they are in demand.”

The company has now cleared its stock of the original DLPs, and replaced these with LM 44s thanks to its unrivaled capabilities. The LM 44 provides four analog inputs and four analog outputs, in contrast to the LM 26’s 2-in/6-out. In addition, the LM 44 accommodates 8-in/8-out AES3 and 4-in/8-out Dante digital audio transport. The LM 44 benefits from the latest implementation of Lake’s iconic ‘Mesa EQ’ configuration, utilising 4 Mesa modules, each with an independent input mixer and output signal processing chain.

With this configuration, the LM 44 is ideally suited for a wider number of different FOH applications, including as a mix-matrix and full system EQ – sitting between a mixer and virtually any high-end performance loudspeaker system – switching between consoles on large events, inserted EQ for monitor systems, FOH to stage digital transmission, line driver for self-powered systems, and as a Dante break-in/break-out box.

Jerry continued: “The Lakes are completely dependable and worry free. The sound quality is second to none, and when used with Dante, give a sparklingly clean low latency link, further augmented with the extra features offered by the LM44 now standard in all our drive racks. 

“Britannia Row has committed itself to the LM Series, as we have found the right product that fulfils our needs and exceeds all that we ask of it. We will continue with this association with Lab.gruppen and Lake for a long time to come I hope.”

The LM 44 was officially launched at PLASA 2011 in September this year, and is shipping now.

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