Rockin’ 1000 grows again with Yamaha
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The scale of Rockin’1000 That’s Live means that the sound has to be managed by a highly professional team. Yamaha Music Europe’s Italy branch were on site in Milan as technical partners, with Alessandro Arturi, Marco Giovanetti and the rest of the crew facing the major task of mixing FOH and monitors for over a thousand singers, guitarists, bass guitarists, drummers, keyboard and wind players.
The event’s biggest digital mixing system yet comprised a Rivage PM10 with CS-R10 and CS-R10-S control surfaces to manage the Front of House mix. A Rivage PM7 system was used for the monitor mixes, with five RPio622 I/O racks providing 304 inputs and 96 outputs. The system was based on a TWINLANe network, with Dante distributing the audio to the PA amplifiers and to multitrack recording via two RMio64-D Dante/MADI I/O racks. A QL1 digital mixer was also provided for the conductor, who was busy keeping all the musicians in time.
Groups of each type of instrument were assembled symmetrically throughout the space to provide an even soundfield and avoid spill or feedback as much as possible. Inputs to the system were from a large number of microphones - either close miked or one microphone between two or three instruments, while the singers had one microphone between two. Each group of instruments had its own monitor mix, fed to the individual musicians via wireless headphones.
“Rockin' 1000 That’s Live is a complex event and Yamaha Rivage PM systems are ideal to manage the sound because of their high channel count, flexibility and reliability,” says Arturi. “They deliver excellent sound quality, combined with the straightforward user interface that means such a complex production is manageable. The production and sound engineers were all very happy with the great sound and really appreciated the flexibility of the system.”
(Jim Evans)
