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Bjorn Again iLive on New Year’s Eve in Sydney
Allen & Heath’s iLive digital mixing system was recently employed by Australian PA company, Davidson Audio, for two festival events staged at Sydney’s Darling Harbour. Comprising an iDR10 stage rack and iLive-144 control surface, the system managed FOH mixing, complemented by a Martin Audio Wavefront speaker system, for the harbour’s Fiesta Latin music festival and New Year’s Eve show.
Fiesta is an annual four-day festival featuring over 30 acts, whilst the NYE Show was a free public event including fireworks and performances from international ABBA tribute band, Bjorn Again, and Sydney favourites, the John Fields Band. Fast changeover times between acts was critical, therefore Davidson Audio needed a digital mixer with the capability of recalling sound check settings quickly and accurately.
“Set up, sound checks, performances and changeovers were completely trouble-free and we were always ready well ahead of schedule,” explains MD, Kevin Davidson. “Moreover, the shows sounded great! I really like the iLive concept of onstage processing with remote, networked, scalable control surfaces. The system sounds fantastic, transparent, with no digital harshness. Also, iLive’s high quality onboard input channel processing, effects and output processing made external equipment unnecessary.”
Davidson continues: “The control surface looks great, and the controls are well laid out. It has a coherent, consistent logic, and operation under show pressure is fast and intuitive. I like the flexibility of being able to arrange the control surface faders in whatever configuration I want, and the ability to programme the channel name and colour code is very useful and really speeds up operation of the desk on multi-act shows.”
For both events, bands were located on Darling Harbour’s floating stage, the Aquashell, whilst FOH was positioned on the harbourside. On NYE, each act required approximately 32 inputs, and nine stage monitor and four IEM feeds were provided. Bjorn Again had their own sound engineer who had used other digital mixers but had no previous experience of iLive. After just a few minutes, he was completely comfortable with the system.
“The iLive is a high quality, compact great-sounding concert mixer that provides all the benefits of digital technology with the ease and speed of operation of traditional analogue mixers. iLove iLive!” concludes Davidson.
30th January 2008
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