ENGLAND — Pop sensation Alphabeat is on tour with Allen & Heath’s iLive digital mixing system managing both monitor and FOH sound. The six-piece are on an extensive tour of Europe to promote their debut album, including live dates and TV appearances.
The standard mixing set up is an iDR10 Mixrack and iLive-112 Control Surface on monitors with a digital split to an iDR0 Network Mixrack and iLive-112 Surface at FOH. However, when load-in has been tricky, Pattison has controlled FOH from his laptop, using a Cat5 cable and a wireless router in places where space has been too much of a premium.
Pattison explains: “We arrived at a venue in Norway and there was minimal crew and a tricky spiral staircase load in, so we only brought in Ben's monitor system. I set up my channels on his surface’s C and D layers, recalled my channel presets from a USB key, and loaded in a couple of my favourite FX. We ran a network cable to FOH and I operated Ben's desk from my laptop using the iLive Editor software.”
One iLive system was used for six stereo in-ear mixes, six wedge mixes, five FX sends and returns, plus a stereo aux mix for FOH. Booker and Pattison used 64 inputs, doubling up channels, to have their own gains as well as independent EQs.
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