Summer gigs throughout Denmark and Sweden provided the debut for Lake’s new standaloneLM 26 digital audio loudspeaker processor.

The early tour of duty came by courtesy of Swedish sound company Music & Lights, which used a number of units at the Copenhagen Live 2010 one-day rock festival and the Sweden Rock Festival – one of Sweden’s biggest live events.

The early tour of duty came by courtesy of Swedish sound company Music & Lights, which used a number of units at the Copenhagen Live 2010 one-day rock festival and the Sweden Rock Festival – one of Sweden’s biggest live events.

Attracting more than 20,000 fans, Copenhagen Live saw the LM 26’s first appearance alongside Rammstein, Bullet For My Valentine, Skunk Anansie, former G’n’R and Velvet Revolver guitarist Slash and Danish hard rockers Volbeat. Soon afterwards, Music & Lights used a trio of LM 26 processors for the main stage at the Sweden Rock Festival in Solvesborg, where Guns ‘n’ Roses, Aerosmith, Gary Moore, Slayer and Danzig played to a 35,000 strong crowd.

Music & Lights put the LM 26 processor through its paces along with a new L-Acoustics K1 line-array system, running Lake Processing via Windows-based Lake Controller software.

Following the success of their use at these festivals, Music & Lights went on to use LM 26 units at several other gigs in and around Gothenburg, including West Coast Riot, Metaltown and Pier Pressure, with more planned for the remainder of the summer.

The LM 26 is the successor to the Dolby Lake Processor (DLP) with extensive digital matrix functions including Dante digital networking, which provides compatibility with Lab.gruppen’s Dante-enabled PLM Series, as well as legacy DLPs. The new processor will accept audio signals via Audinate’s Dante digital audio network at 48kHz and 96kHz sampling rates. Automatic input priority switching may be enabled, and the unit can function as both an input matrix mixer and Dante break-in box or break-out box.

While each individual LM 26 device provides two discrete Lake processing modules, multiple devices can be used in combination (linked with I/O cascaded between units via the input and output routers from any of the AES/Analogue or Dante formats), as Music & Lights have done with their rack of three, to provide as many processing modules as a system requires. Modules and functions can either grouped or combined as Super Modules within the Lake Controller software, offering greater flexibility and simplification of the control processes.