KITCHENER, ON —Bowfire, the total string experience which combines step and tap dancing with virtuoso fiddle-playing, played a special show at the 2000-seat Centre in the Square theatre in Kitchener, Ontario. The entire show was run from an InnovaSON Sy80 digital console at FoH by Dennis Mortson, with an Sy48 on monitors piloted by monitor engineer/wireless tech John Smith. InnovaSON dealer Apex Sound & Light based in Pickering, Ontario, supplied all audio. Apex’s Chris James, who also serves as Bowfire’s technical co-coordinator for touring and live projects, guided event production. The speaker system chosen by Mortson for this project and all Bowfire touring is the new d&b Audiotechnik Q series, Q1 line array with Q7 under-fill, Qsubs for lows and B2 subs for ultra low. Power was provided by d&b D12 amplifiers, complete with internal processing.
“We’ve been using a Sy80 at FOH for Bowfire tours for a while now and thought this was the perfect project to introduce the Sy48 for monitors, as the previous digital console could not keep up with the automation required for expansion of the show," noted James. "Now both consoles are able to share a single stage rack loaded with 56 pre-amps. This is not the case with other digital consoles which come loaded with mic pre’s but cannot be directly linked or removed from the console to share in one rack like the InnovaSON.”
James concluded by saying, "The d&b loudspeaker system combined with InnovaSON consoles and their great-sounding preamps has allowed for a show with nearly 60 channels of audio, without a single graphic equalizer or crossover existing at either FOH or monitor positions.”
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