When British heavy metal band, Bullet For My Valentine (BFMV) supported Slipknot on their recent Summer’s Last Standing tour, they did it with Allen & Heath mixers at FOH and monitors.
Using a GLD-80 and iDR-48 MixRack at FOH, and iLive-R72 rackmount Control Surface for monitors, BFMV FOH engineer, Dave Nutbrown, and monitor engineer, Adam Boole, connected the systems via ACE using a single Cat5 cable. ‘Adam controls the initial levels on iLive, the heartbeat of the system,’ Nutbrown explains. ‘I’m picking up the digital split on the GLD-80.’
The A&H mixers were selected because of the sound quality, reliability and small tour footprint: ‘Everything is right there in this great little package, it makes it so much easier for me. The FX are great and we are getting really good results during our show,’ Nutbrown adds. ‘Sound can vary depending on where the venue is located, indoors or out, but I’d say the GLD always behaves itself either way.’
Earlier this in the year, BFMV headlined a South American tour with Motionless In White, before both bands joined up with Slipknot and Lamb of God for their North America tour. BFMV are now in Europe, where they continue to promote their fifth studio album, Venom.
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