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Implementing Avid VENUE | S6L-24D in Missy Higgins' Solastalgia Tour: A Case Study
Technology Category
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
- Sensors - Acoustic Sensors
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- Sales & Marketing
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- Time Sensitive Networking
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- System Integration
The Challenge
The case study revolves around the challenge faced by Brent Gray, the FOH (Front of House) engineer for the Australian singer-songwriter Missy Higgins. Gray needed a new live system to replace the existing VENUE | Profile workflows, which he had been using for over a decade. The new system needed to be more compact, yet powerful enough to handle the increasing technical complexity of Higgins' shows. The Solastalgia tour, for instance, had grown to 42 channels, including ambient mics. The inputs included traditional band inputs like drums, bass, acoustic and electric guitar, keys, and vocals, along with a few lines of triggered drums and tracks on the new material. Gray needed a system that could handle this complexity while maintaining the high sound quality he was accustomed to with the Profile systems.
About The Customer
Brent Gray is a seasoned FOH engineer who has been mixing for Missy Higgins, a beloved Australian singer-songwriter, since 2004. Gray has tracked Higgins' progression from tour to tour, witnessing the artist's shows grow technically bigger over time. Gray started his career under the stewardship of mixing legend and Oasis FOH Engineer, Bruce Johnston, and later mixed for the band Silverchair. Gray's work with Higgins has seen the artist's shows grow technically bigger over time, with the Solastalgia tour coming in at 42 channels including the ambient mics. Gray has extensive experience with Avid VENUE consoles, having mixed on Profile systems for both Higgins’ 2016 Orchestral Concert Series and Higgins’ support on the recent Ed Sheeran tour.
The Solution
Gray chose the Avid VENUE | S6L-24D as the solution to his challenge. The S6L-24D was chosen for its small footprint, powerful workflows, and seamless support for his existing VENUE show files. The S6L-24D offered increased sound quality and functionality over the Profile systems. Gray was particularly impressed by the clean sound across the spectrum, awesome transients, and a nice round bottom end offered by the S6L. The system also offered intuitive functionality, with the ability to custom design the surface with any combination of inputs, outputs, and VCAs. Gray was able to store a unique layout for each song in the snapshot, as well as more modular layouts for the lines of stage paired with their VCAs, subgroups, and FX returns. The S6L also offered improved Events section, which Gray used to trigger outputs that feed delay FX from the X, Y, and colour switches on the delay return channels.
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