With the world of live performance on hold, DiGiCo consoles are being kept busy by serious live stream events, such as The Cube in Australia, a premium live streaming event space that is gaining traction in the DJ world.
The Cube is an impressive feat of light and sound that could be compared to an entire festival stage, expertly crammed into a compact streaming space. Its design is the combined effort of Melbourne A/V retailer Concert Audio Visual, lighting and visuals specialists VizFx and Melbourne-based online radio station LESH FM. A DiGiCo SD9, supplied by DiGiCo distributor, Group Technologies, was chosen for mixing pre-broadcast audio, as well as handling the stage monitor mix, DJ Booth audio and front-of-house mix.
Anthony Graziani, Concert AV’s Sales Manager and one of The Cube’s primary team members, believes that DiGiCo was the logical mixing choice for the set-up.
‘The SD9 can accomplish a lot from such a compact format,’ he says. ‘The routing options and onboard signal processing mean we have something in place that is well suited for supporting DJ performance audio but can just as easily handle mixing an entire band for the stream, or whatever else you can throw at it.’
The team’s in-house engineer, Oliver Coupe Sando, says that the SD9 was chosen for its sonic transparency…
‘When we stream, we’re looking to introduce as little tone shaping and colour to the sound as possible, so that we can translate what we’re hearing in the space, to people’s headphones and living rooms, with the maximum amount of clarity available to us,’ he explains. ‘DiGiCo consoles are perfect for that, making the audio unobtrusive, so viewers can just focus on what they’re watching without having to worry about whether the sound quality is up to par or not.’
