Paralleling the Grammy and Brit Awards, Les Victoires de la Musique is France’s most prestigious annual awards ceremony. Marking its 30th year, the 2015 event was broadcast live from the 5,000-seat Le Zénith arena in Paris.
The nearly four-hour show recognises the year’s top recording artists and included performances by David Guetta, Brigitte, Jean Louis Aubert, and Christine and the Queens, who were supported by a full orchestra. For both live sound and broadcast, the ceremony’s audio crew used four SSL Live L500 mixing consoles.
Supplied for the event by Paris rental firm Silence, the L500s allowed the ceremony’s two front-of-house engineers to deliver a flawless show. The production was sufficiently sophisticated to require ten SSL stageboxes on stage. Fabien Chanier, handled the FOH mix for the performers, while Stephane Pelletier mixed the orchestra. Pelletier also faced the sonically challenging use of movable screens, which were shifted around the stage throughout the show, obscuring different loudspeakers at varying times.
In addition to the two SSL Live consoles at FOH, two further L500s were used for monitors, where Alex Maggi mixed the bands and Jerome Kalfon mised the orchestra. Gilles Hugo, director of Silence, the Paris A/V company that provided sound services for the show, served as Director of sound. Already an enthusiastic SSL Live user, Silence recently used an L500 for the NRJ Music Awards, presented by NRJ Radio and broadcasted on TF1 TV.
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