Allen & Heath brings his dLive system to Jacob Collier's tour

A dual dLive system of Allen & Heath is one of the central elements of the 'Djesse' world tour’ by British singer-songwriter Jacob Collier this year.

With performances in Europe, America, Asia and Australia, The tour Djesse of Jacob Collier, which is accompanied by a band of six musicians, offers a different show in each of them, where improvisation and audience participation, together with audio technology and interactive lighting set the tone.

As he points out Ben Bloomberg, Production Manager & Show Systems Designer, "Gone are the days when you could arrive and use any table; This tour has too many moving parts. With a Looping and music as dynamic as Jacob's, Our engineers perform almost as much as the band. The mix is very dynamic and the show changes every night, with a significant improvisation".

After testing the flagship digital platform of Allen & Heath Before the pandemic, Bloomberg turned to sound provider Eighth Day Sound Systems (which was acquired by Clair Global) to supply him with a couple of dLive to handle FOH and monitors, since "it is the only solution that provides the required I/O and the number of channels in a factor that facilitates production freedom", Ensures.

As show files are supported across Allen's dLive range & Heath, brand marketing Audio-Technica, has the same core FPGA of 128 channels and 96kHz on all MixRacks, Bloomberg and his team were able to switch between different surface and MixRack combinations for each leg of the tour without losing processing power or the number of channels.

Specifically, for the stage in the United States, a couple of S5000 surfaces of 28 faders with a MixRack DM0 and DM64; in the United Kingdom, one of the S5000 surfaces was replaced with a S7000 of 36 faders on monitors; and for upcoming events in Australia, A couple of surfaces C1500 ultra-compact will unfold with a couple of MixRacks DM0 and three expanders DX168 for analog I/O.

"I love the flexibility offered by the dLive series, which allows me to travel with my equipment without having to compromise the processing power I need for the show," he stresses José Ortega, FOH-Engineer. The sound quality of the console makes it easy to get great sound and consistency in my mixes, So I don't have to think about plugins or external equipment and that's great when you're on tour.".

The show uses 116 Audio Channels from a combination of analogue and digital sources, making use of dLive Dante cards for connection to redundant playback systems, in addition to the integration of the graphical interface with the wireless systems of Shure.

"Linking our devices Axient Digital directly with the channels on the table was a pleasure," explains the monitor engineer Alessandro Melchior-. I'm a big fan of having everything under control at my desk, without having to rely too much on external hardware".

To do this,, Melchior relies on Melchior's suite of tools DEEP processing dLive zero latency for artist monitor mixes. "Its massive amount of processing power and well-distributed surface area make running this show a pleasure. Features such as Dyn8, Source Expander and Bus Compressor They make a difference when I keep 116 clean and under control".

The dLive platform "has become a fundamental creative tool for Jacob and our entire team," Bloomberg adds. Not only does it offer a powerful feature set and great ergonomics, but it's also a lot of fun to mix with it. The effects sound great and there are a lot of sound shaping tools that used to require a dedicated external team.".

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