The company's flagship dLive S7000 surface took care of front of house duties in conjunction with a DM48 MixRack, while an S3000 surface and Dante-enabled DM64 MixRack was in place for a full 64-channel multi-track live recording for TV broadcast on The Gadget Show on Channel 5.
In addition, Allen & Heath's compact GLD-80 digital mixing desk and ME personal monitoring system also featured, catering for FOH and stage monitoring for Scottish singer-songwriter Nina Nesbitt's live performance.
Head Of Audio for Gadget Show Live (and the man charged with FOH responsibilities during the event) Gareth Davies from Midlands-based Centrepiece Productions Ltd commented, "I've run all of the audio for Gadget Show Live since its inception seven years ago, and have used a number of different PA systems and consoles over that period.
"I'd recently been working with an Allen & Heath dLive S7000 console that I'd installed in a church in the West Midlands and had been really impressed with its ease-of-use, deep programmability, the amount of processing power it has for effects, its great Dante integration and so on.
"When we were planning this year's event - with the requirement to also deliver multi-track recording for broadcast - I realised dLive would be an ideal solution and both S7000 and S3000 proved perfect for what was a very demanding, multi-faceted project. It's very intuitive - despite its flexibility - and really easy to customise on the fly, which is key in a high-pressure situation like Gadget Show Live."
(Jim Evans)
