Australian progressive rock band Northlane are currently touring the European festival circuit with an Allen & Heath dLive system managing both FOH and monitor sound.
‘I’ve come straight over from two years on a dLive S Class S5000/DM64 system on monitors with Bring me the Horizon, and wanted to keep the same workflow with Northlane,’ explains engineer, Jared Daly. ‘As the band are from Australia, their gear is nearly always in a fly-in configuration – everything is in custom wooden racks that slot into fly-able pelican cases that all weigh 32kg. For this reason, the band decided to purchase the C1500 Surface and DM48 MixRack to manage both FOH and monitors.’
‘The dLive surface is small enough to fly anywhere we need, and we had a custom Scott Dixon case built for it so it can be wheeled anywhere with ease,’ Daly explains.
The C1500 is equipped with a Waves network card to allow virtual soundchecking and live recordings of performances. A DM48 rack placed on stage adds input channels when needed, and also provides dual power redundancy. The band pair a Macbook Air with the rack on stage and use Director control software to run their own monitor mixes, gain sharing but with separate FOH and monitor channels.
‘With the use of softkeys, the band have found navigating the software during the show very easy, and if something requires my attention, I have a scene set up to load the monitor input faders to the C1500 and I can manage their mixes directly from FOH,’ Daly reports.
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