TORONTO — Adamson Systems Engineering named MPM France and SLS as beta partners for its Project Energia program. France is a key European territory for Adamson, with more than 30 vendors carrying the Y-Axis and SpekTrix series.
MPM, established in 1990 in northeastern France, employs more than 30 in its warehouse and works with more than 100 freelancers. It supports more than 15 tours and provides rental services for more than 1,200 shows annually. The soundco, which also supports with festivals including Carcansonne and Les Voix de Gaou, has more than 500 Adamson cabinets in its inventory.
Marc Morosini, director general of MPM, got the chance to visit Canada last fall to listen to one of the first finished prototypes of the E15 system, and credited it as offering “more power than any other cabinet, in a smaller and lighter package…it is the system of the future, available today.”
SLS, with a 36,000 square-foot facility in Ales and a second location in Montpellier, has 15 full-time and 140 freelance employees, and its loudspeaker inventory is comprised exclusively of Adamson products. Though SLS is focused mainly on festivals and corporate events, they provide sound production for a few tours, including Les Ogres Barback (a.k.a. The Ogre) currently on tour with SLS’s new Adamson E15 system.
“We started as a small local company with some enthusiastic technicians and have since steadily attracted bigger and better jobs,” said Leon van Empel, SLS’ owner and production manager. “We were very excited to get our hands on the new E15.” van Empel also commended Adamson’s French distributor DV2 for its gear and service.
In addition to MPM and SLS in France, international Energia beta partners include Big Daddy Entertainment Group (Indonesia), Eighth Day Sound Systems (U.S./U.K.), Fluge Sonido Profesional (Spain) and Wigwam Acoustics (U.K.)
