Allen & Heath dLive: new digital mixing system from TAF music school

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, It has a wide educational offer based, mainly, in approaching music in a natural way. For this it has a detailed structured program, focused on practice, and a study plan to bring music closer to students with continuous monitoring of their learning.

This is how Alex Blanco explains it, TAF technical chief: “students must feel that what they are learning is useful from the first moment, This is essential for them to stay motivated.. For this, the work of the teacher is essential, both as a teacher and as a communicator.”

With this vision, The center has both an experienced team of teachers, as well as facilities conditioned and equipped with advanced professional material. Proof of this has been the decision, after evaluating the market offer, of entrusting new school equipment to 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 which are ideal for professional audio applications focused on live performance, and hold any type of event, from concerts or theater 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 y DiGiGrid; companies that make up the Audiotonix Group, which to date is the world's largest manufacturer of digital audio mixing systems.

The system acquired by the TAF music school is made up of a dLive S5000 control surface from 28 faders y un rack modular dLive DM64, con 64 microphone inputs and 32 line outputs, which is also used for other jobs outside of the center's activities, as well as for concerts, tour rehearsals and television show recordings.

Concretely, one of these projects has been a television program for new talents, called 'Life is beautiful', for 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 on the staff and that of the contestants. Through Madi, a signal was sent to the mobile unit so that they could do the broadcast mix., which was completely independent of the live mix.

“The choice of this team has been a really right 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, the school and our technicians have a tool that allows them to manage any type of event that occurs with quality and solidity., regardless of its complexity.".