Allen & Heath dLive: taf music school's new digital mixing system

Quality, versatility and solidity of the system have been the arguments of this well-known Madrid music school to acquire a dLive S5000 control surface, together with the DM64 modular rack, for your concert hall.

TAF, the official school of modern music, located in the Madrid town of Arroyomolinos, has a wide educational offer based on, chiefly, in the approach to music in a natural way. For this, it has a detailed structured program, practice-focused, and a curriculum to bring music closer to students with continuous monitoring of their learning.

This is how Alex Blanco explains it, TAF Technical Manager: "Students should feel that what they are learning is useful from the first moment, this is essential for them to stay motivated. To do this, the work of the teacher is essential, both as a teacher and as a communicator."

With this vision, the center has both a team of experienced teachers, as well as facilities equipped with advanced professional equipment. Proof of this has been the decision, after evaluating the market offer, to entrust the new equipment for the school in the manufacturer's dLive digital mixing system Allen & Heath, that represents commercially Audio-Technica Iberia in Spain.

This system provides an ultra-flexible architecture, a powerful FPGA processing core, wide variety of control options, expansion and networking possibilities, plus the intuitive Harmony user interface; features all of them suitable for professional audio applications focused on live, and hold any type of event, from concerts or theatre performances to broadcasting.

The reasons that led Alex Blanco to choose this team were "the exceptional possibilities of expansion, configuration and management offered by dLive", in addition to being a system resulting from the alliance between four manufacturers: Allen & Heath, DiGiCo, Calrec and DiGiGrid; companies that make up the Audiotonix Group, which to date is the world's largest in the manufacture of digital audio mixing systems.

The system acquired by the TAF music school consists of a dLive S5000 control surface 28 faders and a modular rack dLive DM64, with 64 microphone inputs and 32 line outputs, which is also used for other work outside the centre's activities, as well as for concerts, rehearsals of tours and recordings of television programs.

concretely, one of these projects has been a tv show of new talents, called 'Life is beautiful', for the Television of Castilla-La Mancha and the Mediapro group, in which Alex Blanco has been responsible for the PA mix, as well as that of the twenty musicians of the staff and that of the contestants. Through Madi a signal was sent to the mobile unit so that they could make the broadcast mix, which was completely independent of the live mix.

"The choice of this team has been a really wise decision," says Blanco.. On the one hand, students can learn by working with equipment equipped with extraordinary and cutting-edge technology, at the same time that the school and our technicians have a tool that allows to manage with quality and solidity any type of event that is presented, regardless of its complexity".

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