EDINBURGH, Scotland — Ward-Steedsy Audio provided and used an Allen & Heath digital iLive system for the Red Bull Chasers bicycle event staged here recently. The system helped the audio crew overcome the challenge of having three PA systems with local inputs at each system mixed and distributed to all three systems simultaneously.
More details from Allen & Heath (www.allen-heath.com):
The setup included having an iLive-R72 surface at the starting line, a MixRack half way up the hill and a second rack at the finish line. Local inputs at the surface included audio feed from the video playback, the start-line MC’s microphone and audio inputs for the start signal. The surface also handled outputs to the OB truck and outputs to the start line PA system.
Halfway up the hill, connected via 120m of Cat5 the first MixRack had local inputs from the Red Bull DJ truck, together with outputs for the second PA system adjacent to the DJ truck, and an ACE link to the second rack.
At rack at the finish line connected via another 85m of Cat5, and handled the input from the finish line MC and the outputs to the finish line PA.
The entire system was networked using Allen & Heath’s ACE network running in dual MixRack mode and connected via Neutrik Etherflex cables.
“Setting up the system in dual MixRack mode takes a few more minutes of preparation time, but once it was set up at our premises and everything tested, it connected together on site in minutes and performed flawlessly throughout the event,” said Steven Ward
“As this was a city center event with a strict road closure policy we had a very limited time frame to set-up and test three systems, so running Cat5 cables instead of traditional bulky multicores was an attractive solution,” added David “Steedsy” Stevenson
For a video of the event, go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tl_Qhxf-pvY.
