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iLive Brings LA's Temple Bar to Life
An iLive digital mixing system has been installed in prestigious Los Angeles nightclub, the Temple Bar, providing improved sound reinforcement for the club's nightly live music schedule.
Based in LA's desirable Santa Monica area, the Temple Bar is a unique music venue hosting local, national and international artists performing a spectrum of music covering the genres of jazz, electronica, indie, hip hop, soul, latin, reggae, and world music. There is also a house DJ performing between acts, and the venue regularly organises film screenings and poetry nights.
The Temple Bar's music director and chief mixing engineer, Swan, commented:
"The audio quality of iLive is magnificent. I've been working at the Temple Bar for five years and I've never heard the venue sound like this before – it has brought our sound system alive!"
Comprising the iDR-10 stage rack and iLive-144 control surface, the Temple Bar is utilising 40 channels of the iLive system. There are four aux mixes for stage monitors, and three matrix feeds, including a mono sum feed for a separate bar room, and a stereo feed for recording. The DCA groups are being used to control the drum, percussion, bass, guitar, keys, and vocal mixes, and in addition DCA's are used as mute groups as an alternative to sub groups. Swan is using onboard compression, reverbs, and delay effects: "the compressors sound fantastic; they are very musical on vocals so we don't have to worry about inserts," he explains.
"The mic pre-amps are detailed and warm, and the iLive's mixes have excellent stereo imaging. The system's compact footprint fits perfectly in our sound booth, and our mixing engineers are overjoyed with the ease of use and improved sound. Even members of the crowd have taken notice. I've done a lot of mixing on the other digital consoles like the PM5D and the sound of the iLive blows them away," concludes Swan.
In picture: Pierre, the Temple Bar's second mix engineer.
5th April 2007
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