Whether in Las Vegas or on television, magic has never been hotter. The hit television show, Masters of Illusion: Impossible Magic, is now out of the box and into live theatre.
Masters of Illusion: Live brings the art of stage illusions live in real time to audiences full of magic fans.
In a recent stop at the Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank, New Jersey,ACIR Professional provided engineer Stephen Bonamassa with a Yamaha CL5 and two Rio3224-D input/output racks for use at front of house.
“My work consists of 90% corporate work and about 10% music and entertainment work,” states Bonamassa. “I will say that the CL5 sounds better than other digital Yamaha boards I have used. Features like the touch screen made patching and routing a whole lot easier.
“I also liked being able to color code input and output channels on the surface.”
Bonamassa said another cool feature was being able to assign the right-most bank of eight faders to different presets on the fly.
“Having the same option, but different presets, available on the center eight is cool as well. The functionality of the graphic EQ’s on the center eight faders, and the way the input layers flip on the console, independent of what you have punched up on the center and right set of faders are also some helpful features.”
In addition to the CL5, ACIR brought in an entire audio production system including 14 d&b Audiotechnik Q1 Line Array Speakers, two Q Subs, D12 amps’ four Yamaha T3n amplifiers; and Shure SM58s and ULXS4 wireless systems.
