ATLANTA, GA — The Midas XL8 digital live performance system has been mixing sound for Sister Act, The Musical, the new show by Alan Menken. After completing a run at the Pasadena Playhouse, the show moved to The Alliance Theatre in Atlanta for a six-week stint, accompanied by FOH Engineer Pierre Dupree and an XL8 deployed by Sound Associates, Inc., whose Carl Casella and Domonic Sack completed sound design for the show. Carl Casella of Sound Associates offered some thoughts on the Midas conaolse: "Until I heard the XL8, I'd yet to hear a digital desk sound as good as an analog desk. With the XL8, Midas has accomplished that mission. And, from a hands-on perspective, the XL8 is a really well thought out. It's a highly sophisticated piece of equipment, but it has a vast range of practical features missing on other digital offerings.
"All digital desks 'work' in a controlled environment, but we, as engineers, do not," Casella added. "The XL8 was designed with that in mind. Around 175 cues are written into the XL8 for this show, including 28 songs and all the cues for the orchestra. We're running over 80 inputs, including 24 lavalier mics — it's a pretty loud show. At any given moment there aren't any more than two vocal mics, so you're really mixing. As well as the storage, recall and redundancy power XL8 is packing, its design elements allow the hands-on element of mixing, including on-the-fly fine-tuning, to remain part of the mix process."
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