Two dLive systems managed the popular British Music Embassy Showcase, hosted by Austin's Latitude 30 club and featuring 10 to 12 bands each day of the festival. A GLD-80 was installed at the Threadgills venue to manage their roster, plus local PA company, Rock 'n Roll Rentals, supplied Qu mixers to various smaller venues.
dLive was requested for broadcast duties at the SPIN magazine party at Stubbs, where Chvrches, Deftones, and Vince Staples played, and a GLD-80 Chrome system with Waves was used by Tommy Williams mixing Ry-X for his key performance at St David's Episcopal Church.
At the British Music Embassy, dLive managed rapid and smooth transitions from one band to the next with short learning curves for each band's FOH engineer and a great musical experience for their audiences.
James Duvall, commercial solutions specialist at American Music & Sound, was on hand to advise arriving engineers, together with Christopher Kmiec on FOH babysitting duty for Cato Music.
"With the setup we provided," Duvall said, "it only took a few minutes for an engineer to get comfortable with the dLive and the system overall."
FOH engineer, Rachel Ryan, aka Mr Soundlady concluded, "SXSW is hard enough on engineers and bands as it is but the dLive made a normally crazy gig really pleasant and the sound was great! I'd love to get the chance to use a dLive again in a not so rushed situation."
(Jim Evans)
