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Broadband providers AOL drew on Canegreen’s live sound expertise combined with the web casting knowledge of CI to create exclusive web cast material from this year’s Reading festival.
As broadband rolls out its reach to an ever-increasing audience, service providers AOL have made the decision to incorporate exclusive music content produced specifically for their subscribers. To achieve this they created their own backstage live web cast venue and ran their own series of intimate live performances, featuring 13 of the artists appearing on the festival line-up, including Franz Ferdinand and Morrisey.
AOL UK appointed web cast specialists C.I. to manage the live production of the material and Canegreen liaised with their director Gavin Starks to ensure they created a PA to suit the needs of the project, on an already busy bank holiday weekend. Gavin commented: “Originally these were going to be acoustic sessions, but as the bands confirmed, most of them wanted to perform with full band line ups, so Canegreen expanded the PA accordingly. The sound has been excellent throughout the weekend.”
This expansion in the bands for Canegreen came mainly in the form of changing the planned Midas Verona front-of-house desk for a 48-channel Midas Heritage console and upgrading the onstage monitor facilities to a 5-way mix with side fills, to accommodate the additional instrumentation and drums.
The main performance and audience area was accommodated inside a 9m by 7m marquee, so the main PA, although limited in size due to backstage noise restrictions, was a pair of Meyer MSL 2s and 650p subs, which delivered a very punchy sound under the attentive management of Canegreen’s Adrian Bradley.
To generate the mix for the web cast, Canegreen’s Miles Marchant was located in a truck away from the main room, sat in front of Canegreen’s new 48-channel Yamaha DM1000, which also needed eight extra channels adding through an analogue to digital I-cam to accommodate the increase in the size of the bands. Miles performed a live mix as the bands performed, switching between his headphones and studio monitors, which were fed with the images from the three cameras to be treated ready for uploading onto the AOL web site within hours.
Miles commented: “I was working with no rehearsals, so had the sound-check to get my levels and mix right, with the sub from the main performance area coming into the truck; but we have all been very happy with the mixes.”
15th September 2004
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