Dave McDonald, FOH engineer, discovered iLive on the discussion forum of audio professionals' website, www.crewspace.com. It led him to pursue the idea of using iLive on the Florence tour. He said: "With iLive, I can turn up to any type of venue and just plug it in. It's so simple and it's got expensive-sounding FX, good gates and good compressors. The pre-amps are really great and the headroom's amazing. I don't use outboard gear at all and I like having everything in one box, plus promoters love it because you're using the smallest footprint possible."
Monitor engineer, Cam Blackwood, commented: "On our pre-production day I couldn't believe how intuitive and simple the iLIve was. All the menus are on one button; with other desks there are lots of buttons and you can't get back to the page you were on."
(Jim Evans)
