Arranged by renowned Swedish conductor and composer Hans Ek, and performed by the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and choir Zero 8, an orchestral arrangement of David Bowie’s Berlin Trilogy has completed a number of concerts at Gothenburg Concert Hall and Stockholm’s Berwald Hall and is preparing to tour Europe.
Central to its audio is a mixing system using Allen & Heath’s dLive S Class and ME systems for FOH and monitors. The technical production was managed by FOH engineer Hans ‘Surte’ Norin from Musikalisk Ljudteknink with Peter Fredriksson from PF Ljuddesign on monitors.
The126-channel mix used two Madi-enabled S5000 Surfaces and DM64 MixRacks connected by GigaAce, with an additional DX32 Expander for monitors, an IP8 Controller for FOH remote control, and ME-1 personal monitoring mixers for the orchestra. A Waves V3 network card was also used at FOH for recording and virtual soundchecking, while a broadcast feed was sent to Swedish Radio via Madi.
‘This is a big production, with more than 100 people in the orchestra, band and choir to manage,’ Norin explains. ‘With superior processing power and ample channel capacity, dLive easily handled the production, and the results sounded wonderfully rich and natural.’
The production will now undertake an extensive tour of Europe during 2017, using the same mixing set-up.
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