Madrid’s Bassement Club recently completed a significant upgrade of its sound system, featuring a raft of Allen & Heath equipment.
Located in the heart of Madrid’s leisure district, the electronic music and live performance venue occupies 1,000sq-m of floor space divided into two areas. The newly-installed audio system is built around an Allen & Heath dLive C1500 control surface with a DM0 MixRack (with Dante and DX Link networking cards), three DX168 and two DX012 Expander units and a Dante-equipped AHM-64 Audio Matrix Processor.
Adriano Masián is the club’s Technical Director and was responsible for the installation: ‘We decided on Allen & Heath products partly because we had several guys that we trusted recommending them. Looking at the different options we realised that the Allen & Heath system was going to be best suited to the needs of the room, both in terms of versatility and functionality.’
‘We are very happy with the result,’ he reports, after a running-in period. ‘The console is easy to use and very intuitive and the DX stage boxes have worked perfectly for us – in all the live performances I’ve had with various musicians they have fulfilled their function perfectly.’
The AHM-64 is a 64×64 matrix audio processor for installation, offering 12 x 12 local analogue I/O and network audio I/O port up to 128 x 128. It uses a 96kHz FPGA core with ultra-low latency and features 64 configurable processing outputs, mono/stereo zones or loudspeaker processing.
The DX012 is an audio expander with 12 XLR outputs and AES connectivity for dLive and SQ Series. It offers 96kHz resolution for Allen & Heath digital mixing systems and is configurable as 12 analogue line outputs, eight analogue line outputs + four AES stereo outputs, or four analogue line outputs + eight AES stereo outputs. It connects, via a single Cat5e cable, to a dLive surface, a dLive MixRack, an SQ mixer or sends signal flow to a DX expander via a secure EtherCon port, and its second EtherCon port allows redundant connection to compatible hardware or to connect in series and send signal flow to a DX expander, for additional remote I/O.
DX168 is a portable expander for adding remote I/O to dLive S-Class and C-Class systems. It incorporates 16 microphone preamps with independent phantom power indicators and eight line outputs via XLR connections. Up to six DX168 units can be connected to a single dLive system – four via the MixRack and two via the control surface – providing up to 96 remote inputs and 48 remote outputs, in addition to those provided by the MixRack and surface.
With a rack footprint of 4U, DM0 is dLive’s most compact MixRack and is aimed at distributed audio and digital split applications. It houses an XCVI processing core complete with audio I/O, control and audio network ports. It can be controlled with a dLive surface, using a laptop or iPad, Allen & Heath IP remote controllers or third-party controllers, via TCP/IP. The unit offers 128 input channels, 64 mix outputs and 16 RackExtra FX.
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