Taking place on the evening of 1 March, the highlight of the event was the annual East Coast Music Awards ceremony, which saw live performances and video clips interspersing the presentation of awards in 31 categories - ranging from DVD of the Year through to Aboriginal Recording Of The Year.
With a complex, two stage production to mix the sound for, DiGiCo consoles were chosen to ensure that everything ran seamlessly on the night. Supplied by Nova Scotia-based Tour Tech East, a D1 was used at monitors, while front of house engineer David W. Hillier manned an SD7 console.
The event comprised 17 live performances, interspersed with video clips and the presentations of the awards from a separate podium.
"Of the two stages, the first featured bands while the second had a house band and primarily featured singer-songwriters with guest musicians," says Hillier.
"We had 64 inputs, with 32 from each stage split between FOH, monitors and the recording truck. The podium mics, host mics and video playback went to a separate FOH mixer and operator, although we ran them to the SD7 as well for backup. We also sent the recording truck mix to the other FOH console and the SD7 mix went to the recording truck so that we would have alternate backup mixes."
(Jim Evans)
