Performing for festival crowds from Europe to South America, Brit ragga-metal outfit Skindred are relying on an Allen & Heath iLive digital mixing system for front of house.

The band’s FOH engineer Ben Hammond features in Audio-Technica’s latest artist video interview, talking about the flexibility and sound quality of the Allen & Heath iLive 112 set-up that has been delivering the band’s shows over the last two months.

‘I’ve been blown away by the quality of the preamps in the iLive,’ he says. ‘From the moment you stick the faders up the iLive sounds fat and rounded, not brittle and plasticky like some digital desks are. It sounds like an expensive analogue console.

‘With Skindred, the songs include everything from big aggressive dubstep sections to sparse reggae breakdowns and metal riffs. There are all these variations in style in a Skindred set and the iLive just works really well with the dynamics of the band. It just delivers effortlessly.’

The desk was supplied by Audio-Technica, the exclusive distributor of Allen & Heath systems in the UK.

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