Austin, TX (April 5, 2023)—South by Southwest is at all times an thrilling time, and with the primary correctly post-pandemic version held this spring, the British Music Embassy stage was again in enterprise, internet hosting up-and-coming UK artists. In all, greater than 50 acts, together with Venbee, Sports Team, Robocobra Quartet, Sans Soucis and Sipho took the stage to tear it up.
While high-end audiophile model Bowers & Wilkins won’t be the primary loudspeaker firm to come back to thoughts in the event you have been requested to guess what P.A. was used, it’s nonetheless what that they had available, with a specifically scaled-up system that packed a wallop for the 1000’s that attended reveals there over the course of the pageant.
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Meanwhile, at entrance of home, bands have been blended on an Allen & Heath dLive S5000 floor, paired with a DM0 MixRack. That console fed right into a continuity system, powered by a compact CTi1500 console and DM64 MixRack dealing with the varied PA feeds and Shure wi-fi microphones for hosts and presenters.
By the stage, monitor wedges and IEM mixes have been managed from one other dLive S5000 floor with its personal DM64, offering 128 channels of unbiased processing and 64 totally configurable buses.
“I like mixing on dLive,” mentioned Jez Dabbs, home engineer on the BME stage. “It’s my desk of selection again dwelling; it makes my life so much simpler once I present as much as a venue like this and I do know I’ll have all of the instruments I would like.”
Meanwhile, Allen & Heath consoles may very well be discovered at a number of different venues round SXSW – together with a dLive C1500 on the White Claw Shore Club, an Avantis at Sellers Underground, SQ on the Mohawk membership, and a number of analog ZED and GL consoles peppered all through.