A recent multi-contintent tour by Canadian Alt-rockers Mother Mother in support of Inside, its eighth studio album, saw tour manager/front of house engineer Andrew ‘Slipper’ Brown carrying his own Allen & Heath dLive CTi1500 surface and supporting components for his work with the band. In addition, monitor engineer Ronan McAllister utilized a C1500 surface provided by PRG Toronto.
Brown’s kit also includes a CDM48 MixRack and a Waves V3 card for multitrack recording and virtual sound check, while McAllister is employing a DM64 MixRack. “We’re doing a ‘traditional’ gain share between FOH and Monitors by way of a gigaACE card in each MixRack,” Brown explains. “We chose to go this route for the added redundancy with dual gigaACE lines between stage and FOH.”
The choice of the compact dLive pairing was influenced by the vast geography of the band’s homeland, according to Brown: “Artists in Canada face some additional challenges compared to our southern neighbours when it comes to carrying dedicated production packages. When touring we play fewer shows over much larger distances equating to higher transport and touring costs versus the number of shows performed over time. When I explored Allen & Heath’s product line, the dLive CTi1500 really struck me as a desk that would work well for me in the Canadian touring market.
“Mother Mother is on a growth trajectory that has us working in a lot of different sized rooms, so keeping the audio footprint small was a major goal of ours from the get-go,” he concludes. “To be able to have the power that the dLive platform offers packed into one or two cases weighing less than 50 pounds, I was immediately sold.”
