Joan Baez entrusts the audio mix of her tour to Allen's dLive console & Heath

After a successful tour of Europe, Joan Baez is still cute Fare Three Wellacross North America, whose concerts use a Class C C3500 surface, with an Allen MixRack CDM48 & Heath.

Both the monitors and the FOH of the tour concerts Fare Three Well, that the artist Joan Baez has started in North America, are being mixed by engineer Jason Raboin, of Klondike Sound, using a C3500 Class C surface with a CDM48 MixRack Allen & Heath, brand that sells in Spain Audio-Technica Iberia.

As Raboin explains, “I have been working with Joan for fifteen years and she is a fantastic artist.”. Now he has simplified his band to three components, and I have started to simultaneously control both the FOH and the monitors, so I needed a better console. I did my research and talked to a lot of people I trust and attended a dLive demo. Even just with pre-recorded music, It sounded much better than what I was using.”.

The typical setup for a performance on this tour, As this audio engineer describes it is the following: “I have twenty-four tickets coming from the stage, with three in-aural mixes and four wedges. The demand for tickets is so great that sometimes I have seats located behind the stage, so I have many areas to manage”.

In two concerts during the European tour, specifically in France, Raboin supplied Dante shipments to a broadcast truck, “and there was even a documentary filming crew that followed us in some performances,and provided eight analog sends from the MixRack. Having twenty-four analog outputs in addition to AES sending makes this possible”.

dLive banks and layers help Reboin manage his inputs. Uses the mixer's internal ExtraRack FX delays and reverb for instruments and vocals, and dLive scenes for specific jobs. This engineer records each performance through a dLive Waves card and uses the mixer's Virtual Sound Check to fine-tune each performance, “which makes sound checks much shorter now”, assures.

The tour has its own intra-aural and wedge monitoring. “Joan's intra-aural mix is ​​primarily post fader and I split her voice channel, so the band hears the same thing as the public -continues-. The percussionist has his own intra-aural mix on an iPad, with the dLive OneMix app, and it's fantastic".

As Raboin points out, “On this tour we work in all types of venues, from outdoors to symphony halls. So the dynamics can change a lot from one performance to another. But dLive has really helped us manage this. The sound is fantastic and I have found what I have been looking for for many years”.