Soundcraft for the Gentlemen

Midland Sound & Light has purchased a new Soundcraft Series FOUR front-of-house console for The League of Gentlemen, who have added a sell-out run at London’s Theatre Royal to their successful UK touring credentials. MSL has provided a Renkus-Heinz CE3 touring system for the show, adding the new Series FOUR console, supplied by Marquee Audio, to the production rig when it arrived in the West End. Working with MSL is sound designer Oliver Gross, who mixes the show, together with second engineer Dan Sepke, both graduates of LIPA.

The show is loud, delivered at levels more commonly found in touring rock ‘n’ roll, and it is also full of action. Gross has 53 cues, which are all manually triggered from his three CD players, one of which is routed to the effects speakers on stage. Gross comments: "The Series FOUR is a very flexible desk. Being able to route the aux sends and sub groups into the matrix gives me a lot of outputs, an impressive number for a relatively compact console. The flexible routing capabilities enable me to have immediate access to all outputs during a very short get-in (one day) and so I don’t have to make any compromises. And I even had a couple of spare outputs to supply separate mixes to the broadcasting van when we produced a video of the show."

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