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Mixing Devin Townsend’s Live Sound

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FOH engineer Christophe Edrich handled mixing Devin Townsend's European tour on an Allen & Heath dLive C1500 control surface.
FOH engineer Christophe Edrich dealt with mixing the current Devin Townsend European tour on an Allen & Heath dLive C1500 management floor.

London, UK (May 26, 2023)—Canadian rocker Devin Townsend newest album, Lightwork, is heavy stuff, and crowds got here out to listen to it each evening on his current European tour, which noticed him going in all places from Oslo to London. Along for the experience was his in a position band and the audio staff of Christophe Edrich at FOH and Sam Chadwick at stageside in monitorworld.

In the post-COVID touring panorama, retaining issues light-weight and compact is an important side of bringing gear on the highway, and with that in thoughts, the engineers opted for compact Allen & Heath dLive C1500 management surfaces and a shared CDM32 Mix Rack, all provided by STS Touring Productions and Pulse PA.

Monitor man Chadwick famous, “The C1500/CDM package deal is unimaginable for touring. Although the venues we’re enjoying are related capacities, the variations in stage dimension might be vital. The CDM is simple to slot in wherever and I’ve by no means had a set-up this dimension that’s so useful and so ‘musical’, for the need of a greater phrase.

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“We’ve received the gigaACE networking card within the CDM32 in order that we will run each C1500 surfaces on the only MixRack and we’re breaking out into two DX168s on the drum riser, that are daisy-chained. It’s all very streamlined and it’s been completely flawless for the entire tour.”

The small-footprint desk was equally relevant out at FOH, stated Edrich: “I’ve an IP8 Remote Controller working at the side of my C1500 – I really like having these few further faders for my FX returns and tracks that I want entry to often. Even although it’s a small-format floor I discover the C1500 very tactile and nice to combine on this approach with.”

Neither Edrich nor Chadwick depend on exterior results, preferring to make use of the dLive’s built-in processing, with each singling out the Dyn8 EQ/multiband compressor. “I really like the Dyn8,” stated Edrich. “I’ve them on inputs, sub-groups – it’s actually helpful for Devin’s vocals as a result of he makes use of quite a lot of head-voice, which provides quite a lot of resonance, so the Dyn8 retains it actually managed and clear. I’ve a subgroup with Dev’s voice that I can use to compress all the things between 350 Hz and 4 okHz – that band is compressed by Dev’s voice, so that they’re ducked when he sings. Super-useful.”

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UnderOath Packs Light on Tour

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The UnderOath FOH mix position, with compact Allen & Heath dLive C1500 control surface on top.
The UnderOath FOH combine place, with compact Allen & Heath dLive C1500 management floor on prime.

New York, NY (April 7, 2023)—Across 9 albums and a quarter-century, UnderOath has all the time performed its heavy post-hardcore with a punishing, visceral power that interprets into a robust dwell present. Touring behind its newest assortment, 2022’s Voyeurist, the band has been crossing the U.S. with supporting acts Periphery and Loathe, and serving to to carry that bludgeoning to the lots nightly is engineer J.J. Revell, who additionally acts because the group’s manufacturing supervisor.

Revell has been mixing the band on a compact Allen & Heath dLive C1500 management floor tied to a small format DM0 MixRack to deal with the 128 channels of processing and a GX4816 stagebox. The DM0 connects by way of Allen & Heath’s proprietary multichannel gigaACE protocol to a separate DM48 MixRack close to the stage, which permits for a easy digital cut up with a second C1500 floor dealing with monitor mixes.

Despite the second monitor console, the band doesn’t tour with a devoted monitor engineer for its IEM mixes. “It’s principally set it and overlook it,” defined Revell. “The band members will not be choosy and we often get it dialed in earlier than the present so we don’t have to make additional changes.”

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Keeping issues light-weight, Revell makes full use of the inner channel processing out there, eschewing use of an outdoor plug-in server. “Our drummer is among the vocalists, which creates plenty of points since you need to pick the vocals you need with out choosing up all the encircling drum sounds,” he defined. “The Source Expander is phenomenal for serving to with that and never making the opening and shutting of the drum gates audible.”

For results, Revell makes use of the complete palette to emulate the band’s studio recordings. “When I used to be constructing the present file, I arrange 16 FX buses,” he recalled. “I take advantage of refrain, reverb, and saturator for guitars. I even have reverb, refrain and two totally different delays for vocal channels. Sometimes I’ll add some saturation for the bass as nicely. Having all of those results built-in permits me to be artistic, and I can use the mixer as an instrument—as a result of I’m performing, too.”