CALVI, Corsica — Tourists may find the Mediterranean breezes here to be a taste of paradise, but they can also wreak havoc with sound production. That was partly the reason that Powerlive sound engineer Pierre Angeli opted for an Allen & Heath digital iLive system to manage FOH sound at the recent Calvi Jazz festival.
Angeli, who had used iLive on a previous gig, chose it for the flexibility of operation offered by the iLive Editor software, among other things. The iLive system, comprising an iDR10 MixRack and iLive-144 Control Surface, was used as the main FOH mixer under the control of festival FOH engineer, Emmanuel Gagliano.
“It was a harsh climate test for iLive, which effortlessly managed the mixture of high temperatures and strong island winds, which also bought with it many acoustic problems. The high quality of the preamps, the effectiveness of the dynamic processing, the fine internal FX, and sonic quality of iLive’s natural sound made it a joy to use,” said Gagliano.
“iLive easily fulfilled the festival requirements and the audio quality was also remarked upon by the station broadcasting the event,” added Powerlive manager, Olivier Manceaux.
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