TMB News

August 8th, 2005
Tampa, FL
Santana Kicks Off World Tour With RAMTECH Systems
Santana took the stage Memorial Day of 2005 for the first show of the North American leg of their World Tour. Audio production is supplied by California based company Sound Image and features a complete Ramlatch cabling system custom-built by Ramtech Industries, Inc. of Gainesville Florida.

"We have found the Ramlatch system to be the most reliable and easiest to maintain on the road of all of the systems that we have tried,” says FOH engineer Robert Mailman.

The system consists of a standard Sound Image-style splitter system that incorporates a front panel with 54 ea. female XLR inputs and 5 ea. W-1 Sub Stage Box inputs; a rear panel with male XLR outputs with ground lift switches and three Ramlatch multi-pin outputs. The Ramlatch outputs consist of one direct line, one utilizing the ground lifts in line and one transformer isolated.

David Gautrey, Sound Image’s lead technician states, "We have found Ramtech transformers to be very consistent and high quality. They compare with any professional-grade microphone splitting transformer on the market today.” A 25 ft. Ramlatch-to-male XLR fan-out cable for monitors and a 300 ft. FOH run with Ramlatch multi-pin disconnects rounds out the system. Unique to this rig is an interface panel that incorporates a number of ATI line level microphone splitters. This unit has Ramlatch multi-pin connectors that are paralleled to the panel mount XLRs as well as XLR fan-outs in order to accommodate microphone preamps. Ramlatch-to-Ramlatch cable feeds the main input panel. Everything is operated at line level. Ramtech Industries Inc. would like to thank and congratulate Sound Image, Santana and Los Lonely Boys on a great first show and what promises to be a great tour.

For more information about Ramtech Industries, visit their website at www.ramtech.net

TMB is the Worldwide distributor for Ramtech products. Visit their website at www.tmb.com or telephone +1 818.899.8818



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