Delicate Tames Sheds for Selena Gomez with MLA

Supporting her new Hollywood Records album When the Sun Goes Down, Selena Gomez is playing two-dozen North American concerts through September. Javier Alcaraz from Delicate Productions' South San Francisco office, now in its second year, is providing a brand new Martin Audio Multi-cellular Loudspeaker Array (MLA) system that is proving valuable for taming the outdoor venues on their itinerary.

Teams of sound engineers converged at Glasto 2011 armed with the latest technology to ensure that, if the trampled grounds were remembered as wet and muddy, the audio quality would be anything but. The festival, which runs the last weekend of June, was sold out within hours of when tickets went on sale last October, months before Coldplay, Beyoncé and U2 were confirmed as headliners at the festival's main Pyramid stage.

I've been using my Soundcraft Vi6 as my FOH console for several years in festival situations because of its ease of use mixing on the fly and getting guest engineers up and running quickly. There were a couple of additional features, however, that I wanted to implement on my console. The first was the ability to record to 48 tracks and bring them back into the console to create a virtual sound check, and the other was to have the ability to use plugins.