Show And Tell Mixes Festival Intetrnational De Louisiane Broadcast With Allen & Heath

Show And Tell Mixes Festival Intetrnational De Louisiane Broadcast With Allen & Heath posted: 16/06/2018

This year's Festival International de Louisiane in Lafayette, Louisiana attracted over 300,000 festival goers with a world-wide audience listening to an FM and streaming broadcast from the festival's Main Stage mixed on an Allen & Heath dLive C Class C3500 digital mixing system with DM0 MixRack.

Paul McCasland of Show And Tell Productions mixed the live broadcast from a temporary studio in the nearby Lafayette Science Museum. I've been doing this particular event for over 15 years, he said. And, this year, we had a 48-channel Dante split from the Main Stage fed directly to us over a fiber network.

McCasland mixed down to a stereo pair fed to another temporary studio in the museum where radio station KRVS combined the four festival stages with live commentary and interviews using an Allen & Heath SQ5 digital mixer also supplied by Show And Tell.

Last year, I used an Allen & Heath GLD-80 digital mixer for this event and it was great, said McCasland. But, this year, I needed more inputs so I tried out a dLive for the first time. And, I was able to figure out everything and do all of the routing and configuration before the first band started. It's very intuitive.

I have a couple of audience mics which add some air' to the broadcast mix, continued McCasland. I dialed-out the wind noise on those mics with a high-pass filter and used the channel compressors when someone started screaming into a mic on the stage. And, I was very happy with the on-board effects like the reverb. The Allen & Heath effects sound great - I can't say that enough.

Next year, we want to get the other stages into my mix with Dante splits, said McCasland. And, I could handle all of them with one dLive. The beauty of this console is it's pretty much what you want it to be!

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