ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, FL – Allen & Heath's MixPad iPad app, launched earlier this year, allows users to control iLive series digital mixers over WiFi. At First Baptist Church, the app is also being used for personal monitor mixing.
Entertainment Arts Inc.'s Byron Connerly (vice president) and Gil Parente (designer/integrator) first helped the church with its new Allen and Heath iLive T-112 digital mixing console and wireless in-ear monitor systems for the entire band.
"The iLive-T series has a ton of great options when it comes to personal mixing," noted Parente. "There are option cards that allow integration into various ‘Big Brand' personal mixing systems. But we knew that the church was willing to go the extra lengths to have the full benefits, and flexibility, that the iLive series has to offer."
All band members have their own dedicated stereo auxiliary output from the iLive MixRack. "The iLive gives us the flexibility to choose [out of 32 buses on the iLive system] what type of outputs we would want. But now that we have the wireless freedom, how do we solve the personal mixing part?" asked John Williams, the church's media director.
When Allen & Heath released the iLive "Mixpad" App earlier this year, the church purchased iPads for each band member, giving each of them full control over what they were hearing, which allowed their F.O.H engineer to focus on the main mix.
"The MixPad App is incredible," said Williams. "We have full access to every channel on our console, and graphic equalizer on our personal auxiliary channel. This option far exceeds the limits of any 8, or 16 channel personal mixing systems. With the "Custom Layer" feature that the app offers, you don't have to worry about your band messing with the main mix, or anyone else's mix for that matter."
The Allen & Heath digital console line, and all the features that go along with it, including the Mixpad App, is the perfect example of flexibility that just about everyone in the A/V market would appreciate. With the iPad now showing its many different faces, who knows what useful combinations Allen & Heath and Apple's iPad have in store for the A/V industry in the near future?
For more information, please visit www.allen-heath.com/ilive and www.eartsinc.com.
