The Key Club, one of the iconic nightclubs located on the Sunset Stip, books live music five to six nights per week in a main room that seats 650, plus the downstairs Plush Lounge, which accommodates another 75 to 100 guests.

The club recently made the move to digital mixing with the installation of an Allen & Heath iLive-T112 mixing console.

“It’s something we’ve been talking about for a while now,” notes production manager Josh Benton. “Our old analog desk was in constant need of repair, and it made a lot more sense to look to the future rather than preserve the past.”

“We looked at all the options and, based on sound quality and ease of use, we chose the Allen & Heath iLive.”

With the requirement to handle 48 input channels, the iLive-T112 with the iDR48 MixRack was selected. Both the installation and the learning curve proved to be fast and flawless.

“About 75 percent of the bands who play here bring their own engineers, so it was really important that the console be easy to operate,” Benton notes. “When we brought in the console for a demo, our staff was up and running on it literally within a couple hours.”

“Setting up comps and gates was effortless, and the sound quality of the iLive blew away our old analog board. It was really a no-brainer.”

Benton himself was the first to mix a show on the iLive.

“The T112 arrived the day before its debut show,” he recalls. “We hooked it up to our system, named the channels, created some scenes, and dialed in compressors and gates.”

“The next night, I mixed two bands on it and it sounded great. In fact, I had several industry people, guys I really respect, come up and tell me it was the best sound they’ve ever heard at the Key Club.”

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