FOH duties at the 58th annual Bad Gandersheim Domfestspiele outdoor theatre festival fell to Light-house Göttingen and an Allen & Heath dLive digital mixing system.
More than 50,000 visitors attended the event, which is staged every summer against the backdrop of the German town’s historic church. For the third consecutive year, A/V requirements were managed by Light-house Göttingen, using its hire stock dLive system – a dLive S5000 Control Surface with DM48 MixRack and DM32 expander racks including 16 analogue inputs, to manage the run of 69 shows.
‘I’ve used every digital console on the market but dLive is the only one to realise its potential,’ says FOH engineer, Rolf Dressler. ‘I had quite a few scenes set up for the show, and there were several occasions where scenes had to change during a song. dLive’s processing is so quick, there were no problems at all. Also, dLive’s sound is amazing – I’ve been a sound engineer for 30 years but I have never heard such a warm and honest sound.’
