Allen & Heath brings Flamenco Festival iLive

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Andy Wood Aug 27 2008, 9:00am

French festival benefits from iLive digital console supplied by Sté Ateliers Lumières

An Allen & Heath iLive digital system was employed for the recent Festival Arte Flamenco held in Mont de Marsan, France. Celebrating its 20th year, the festival is one of the most famous of its genre, hosting the world’s greatest Flamenco artists.

The main events took place at the Espace François Mitterand, which boasts a large stage for the dance displays. Bordeaux-based Sté Ateliers Lumières managed the AV requirements, selecting a Meyer line array system with an Allen & Heath iLive digital system at FOH.

The iLive system, comprising an iLive-144 control surface and iDR10 stage rack loaded with 48 inputs/32 outputs, was connected to a PC equipped with an LX6464 Digigram card for multi-track live recording.

“Some of the touring sound engineers were familiar with the iLive system from previous events but by the end of the event even the engineers who hadn’t seen iLive before had made the decision to put iLive on their rider as a favoured mixer,” explains sound manager for Ateliers Lumière, Didier Capdevielle

“Engineers were impressed with the quality of iLive’s compressor, which worked very well with the dynamics of the Flamenco singing and acoustic instruments, and the quick and easy access to a large matrix, which managed all the requirements from FOH sound, to video and recording feeds.”

“Once again, iLive’s ergonomic and simple layout, combined with a high quality préamp, built-in effects and wide dynamic had reassured the Ateliers Lumiere team that they had made the right choice in selecting iLive for FOH,” commented Yann Matte from Allen & Heath’s French distributor, Audiopole.

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