Founded in 1993 by Owsiak, along with Lidia Nied wiedzka-Owsiak, Bohdan Maruszewski, and Piotr Burczy ski, the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity was intended to be just a one-time fundraiser to aid Children's Memorial Health Institute in Warsaw. However, the spectacular success of the first effort, which enabled the foundation to divide the money between all cardiology units treating children in Poland, inspired the establishment of the GOCC. Every year, the Grand Finale Fundraiser is organised locally, by volunteer-run Collection Centres, and is accompanied by various events such as concerts, sporting competitions, and a traditional firework display. The foundation also organizes one of the biggest open-air free entry music festivals in Europe in summer called Pol'and'Rock Festival as a thank you' to everyone getting involved and donating during winter season.
It was a privilege to be involved in this year's Grand Finale Fundraiser and support rental companies with state-of-the-art products for local activities, says Polsound's Sound Designer, Arkadiusz Wielgosik. Whilst normally every city and village would organise a physical activity to raise funds for GOCC, this year it had to be live streamed on TV due to the pandemic restrictions. We worked with several rental companies across the country who all provided their experienced crews, as well as took care of setting up the sound, the lights, and the audio - all free of charge.
One of Polsound's biggest tasks was offering support to rental companies by matching DiGiCo consoles with the specific needs they had for an event locally. The team also provided support on wireless systems as well as helping TVN, Polish free-to-air television station, with frequency management, when broadcasting the concert live from Warsaw's Main Stage located next to the Palace of Science and Culture.
Amongst rental companies involved which used DiGiCo consoles included Gigant Sound in Warsaw, which used SD12 for monitors; Airpol Sound & Light in G ra Kalwaria used SD11 with Waves and Optocore, with content streamed from an SD11 and, in Radom, used a SD11i with Waves for streaming; FS Audio deployed an SD5 for streaming; and, finally, Shadok AV Group in Gliwice is the Europe's first company to own a DiGiCo Quantum 5 console, which they used for monitors, as well as an SD12 with Waves for streaming.
Shadok AV Group, based in the South of Poland, used their Quantum 5 and SD12 to operate the show at their location, explains Wielgosik. The SD12 was used for streaming, including a Waves SuperRack and Waves Extreme C server setup as well as mastering plugins in audio chain, whilst the Quantum 5 was used for monitors on stage, with the team reporting that its Mustard and nodal processing were a huge benefit.
Both consoles were connected to an SD-Rack with 32bit ADC and 32bit DAC cards via an Optocore loop, along with an OrangeBox with DMI-Optocore and DMI-Dante 64 running at 96K. All eight channels of Shure ADX radio mics were connected by Dante and further eight channels of Shure PSM1000 were fed from SD-Rack.
The DiGiCo consoles provided the rental partners with unrivalled flexibility, concludes Wielgosik. This was especially useful as the January events do not generally follow a strict scenario, they're more freestyle-like, or rock'n'roll, as we say. As Owsiak mentions all the time this is what reality is like'. The shows are always very emotional, so it is difficult to stick to a step-by-step plan. And this is why we love doing this event. This is the main mission: for everyone to come together and collaborate as a community, doing good things for the benefit of others.
It was great to work with local rental companies and for the DiGiCo consoles to allow them to deliver amazing concerts across the country, sending a message to everyone, showing our unity and demonstrating how fun helping is!
Watch the video from Warsaw's main stage here
[ENDS] Images:
DiGiCo WOSP_1.jpg, DiGiCo WOSP_2.jpg and DiGiCo WOSP_3.jpg Gigant Sound's SD12 at the monitor position for the main stage in Warsaw.
DiGiCo WOSP_4.jpg Airpol Sound & Light's SD11i in Random.
Press Contacts:
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Email: maria@digiconsoles.com
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Founded in 1993 by Owsiak, along with Lidia Nied wiedzka-Owsiak, Bohdan Maruszewski, and Piotr Burczy ski, the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity was intended to be just a one-time fundraiser to aid Children's Memorial Health Institute in Warsaw. However, the spectacular success of the first effort, which enabled the foundation to divide the money between all cardiology units treating children in Poland, inspired the establishment of the GOCC. Every year, the Grand Finale Fundraiser is organised locally, by volunteer-run Collection Centres, and is accompanied by various events such as concerts, sporting competitions, and a traditional firework display. The foundation also organizes one of the biggest open-air free entry music festivals in Europe in summer called Pol'and'Rock Festival as a thank you' to everyone getting involved and donating during winter season.
