Norwegian singer-songwriter Sigrid recently completed her most ambitious UK tour to date with a closing night at the O2 Academy in Brixton, London. With Allen & Heath mixing systems at both FOH and monitors, the tour used a multi-surface set-up comprising a dLive C3500 and dLive C1500.

A DM32 MixRack fitted with a gigaACE module was located on stage for both duties, with the configuration providing 64 channels to each engineer with discrete processing. Additionally, a DX168 expander was used to increase the analogue I/O count onstage.

‘We originally chose the C1500 surface due to its fly-in possibilities and the fact it carries the same powerful engine that the larger surfaces use,’ says FOH engineer, Jan Thomas Halsvik. ‘The multiband compression and dynamic EQs are also great features. We then acquired the DM32 MixRack because of its I/O slots and easy use with both Dante and digital splits.

‘For Sigrid’s shows, we usually just bring our C1500 and DM32, however for this run we needed an extra C3500 surface due to the size of the tour and I wanted more control at FOH on less layers.’

‘The thing I like the most about the dLive – apart from the obvious sound quality – is the flexibility and seamlessness of adding different racks, modules or option cards such as Dante and gigaACE for the multi-surface solution,’ adds monitor engineer, Sigri Hovde.

‘The ease of dLive is great and I love the opportunities for system expansion,’ Halsvik continues. ‘Having the possibility to add analogue inputs easily via the DX ports has proven very valuable too and is one of the main reasons we purchased our dLive C1500! Also, being able to use just one MixRack and still have a full Mon-split is essential for us and then being able to just add a split to a second rack and a mixer without any problem, is incredible.’

Earlier this year Sigrid was announced as the BBC’s Sound of 2018. Next year will see her perform alongside artists including George Ezra and Maroon 5.

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