Polish PA company Craftman has invested in an Allen & Heath dLive digital mixing system for use on its live events. Recently, several key festivals have seen the system – comprising a S7000 Surface with DM64 MixRack – in action, including World Youth Day in Krakow, and the Summer Jazz Days and Jazz in the Old Town events in Warsaw.

World Youth Day is a huge event for young Christians organised every few years in different locations. For its Krakow outing, Craftman was appointed to deliver and operate sound systems in three locations in the city, selecting dLive as the FOH console at the historic Wolnica square, where various choirs, orchestras and bands performed.

In Warsaw, Craftman’s dLive was used as the FOH console for the open-air Jazz in the Old Town festival, and monitor console at Summer Jazz Days, a globally-renowned contemporary jazz festival, featuring international and local talent.

‘dLive is definitely one of the most intuitive and user-friendly mixers on which I have had the opportunity to work. Its great capabilities, open architecture, full configurability of the interface, and above all, the ease and speed of operation, makes it the perfect tool to implement complex live projects. Another nice little fact – dLive has excellent, warm and saturated sound,’ says Craftman sound engineer, Tomasz Dudar.

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