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Digidesign’s End-to-End Triumph at Montreux Jazz Festival
Digidesign has capped a record summer of exposure for its Live Sound products by providing the 41st Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland not only with digital mixing systems stationed at FOH and monitor positions throughout its primary concert venues, but also equipping two OB trucks for recording purposes. In this way the company maintained a constant workflow for visiting engineers over the full 16 days of the event.
No fewer than nine Digidesign Venue systems were deployed in Montreux — seven D-Show systems and two compact D-Show Profiles. These were supported by five Digidesign Pro Tools|HD systems which were made available for recording and playback purposes.
The increasing presence of Digidesign’s Venue D-Show and D-Show Profile on tour riders has been largely responsible for the Montreux Jazz Festival production team raising the level of Digidesign’s participation. Under the sound co-ordination of Pierre-André Aebischer from Niveau 2 Mediasystems, the Festival emphasised the growing importance of being able to record, broadcast and archive live shows along with traditional sound reinforcement duties.
Digidesign supplied the 4,000 capacity Auditorium Stravinski with a pair of 96-channel Venue systems featuring D-Show mixing surfaces, each fitted with two side cars providing 40 input faders to the mixing engineers.
Each system offered a full 128 tracks of recording via Pro Tools|HD systems interfaced to two HDx cards in the Venue FOH racks– 96 direct taps from the mic pres and an additional 32 assignable tracks available for capture of any console signal path via D-Shows digital patchbay.
The Miles Davis Hall was similarly configured — this time offering 48-channel systems addressed by D-Show consoles outfitted with dual side cars. A 64 track Pro Tools|HD system was employed at FOH enabling recording of 48 channels directly from the Stage Rack with an additional 16 tracks available as assignable record paths. In addition to their capture and Virtual Soundcheck duties at the positions in both auditoria, the recordings also effectively served as redundant audio captures for the purpose-configured OB trucks.
All systems in both locations were installed with Digidesign’s new plug-in bundle Venue All Access Pack which offers 25 of the most popular TDM plug-ins for Venue, including popular processing devices from URS, TC Electronic, Drawmer, Rane and Eventide.
8th August 2007
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