KARLSRUHE, Germany – An Allen & Heath dLive system was used to mix a Christmas musical, “A Star is Born” in Karlsruhe, Germany. Because the production switched between stage, screen and live music, it required a flexible audio system at the helm. The multimedia show was one of the highlights of the holiday advent events at the ZKM Art & Media Center’s Filmpalast cinema.
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A multimedia Christmas musical, “A Star is Born,” was one of the performance highlights during the Christmas advent events held at the ZKM Art & Media Centre’s Filmpalast cinema in Karlsruhe, Germany, mixed on an Allen & Heath dLive system.
The production switched between stage, screen and live music, requiring a flexible audio system at the helm. Managed by ICF Karlsruhe in cooperation with Baden TV and involving the children’s charity, ARCHE Karlsruhe e.V., there were 20 shows and audiences of 11,000.
Andreas Kurcz, sound engineer of ICF Karlsruhe specified the dLive system, which was comprised of two S7000 Surfaces with DM64 MixRacks to manage FOH and monitors.
Says Kurcz, “Our great Christmas musical entailed a run of 20 shows, 53 inputs and 30 outputs, over 11,000 visitors and an alternating team of 10 technicians. The dLive systems were an important part of the project planning. The individual mixing styles of each technician could be catered to with different surface configurations but within the same overall settings. The digital patching of dLive was brilliant (FOH / Dante / monitor) thanks to its high flexibility and simple configuration. Given the number of shows, we had also prepared an emergency plan for overworked artists so that we could switch to partial playback during the show.”
