BIRMINGHAM, U.K. — Gareth Davies from Midlands-based Centrepiece Productions Ltd, pictured here, used an assortment of Allen & Heath dLive digital mixing systems to manage the live and recorded audio mixes for the Gadget Show Live, an event that took place at the Birmingham NEC from March 31 to April 3, 2016. The console pictured here is Allen & Heath’s dLive S7000.
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The company’s flagship dLive S7000 surface took care of front of house duties in conjunction with a DM48 MixRack, while an S3000 surface and Dante-enabled DM64 MixRack was in place for a full 64-channel multi-track live recording for TV broadcast on The Gadget Show on Channel 5.
In addition, Allen & Heath’s compact GLD-80 digital mixing desk and ME personal monitoring system were also put to use for FOH and stage monitoring for Scottish singer-songwriter Nina Nesbitt’s live performance.
Davies served as head of audio for Gadget Show Live. “I’ve run all of the audio for Gadget Show Live since its inception seven years ago, and have used a number of different PA systems and consoles over that period,” he noted.
“I’d recently been working with an Allen & Heath dLive S7000 console that I’d installed in a church in the West Midlands and had been really impressed with its ease-of-use, deep programmability, the amount of processing power it has for effects, its great Dante integration and so on,” Davies continued.
“When we were planning this year’s event – with the requirement to also deliver multi-track recording for broadcast – I realized dLive would be an ideal solution and both S7000 and S3000 proved perfect for what was a very demanding, multi-faceted project. It’s very intuitive – despite its flexibility – and really easy to customize on the fly, which is key in a high-pressure situation like Gadget Show Live.”
