NEWS FOCUS: December Sessions Below: The December Sessions was made up of over 100 free performances from artists such as up-and-coming singer Laura Steel; The crowd wore headphones from Sennheiser.
example, and that can really manipulate the sound coming out of the loudspeakers. “With this though, Paul [Stewart, drummer]
was using a Yamaha DTX 950 electric kit which Yamaha kindly donated, and it made the job much easier. It was funny having the drums on two channels, and the signals I was getting from the guitar simulators weren’t quite the same as I normally receive from the band, but you know what, it sounded pretty good, considering.” Sword used just 16 inputs from the iLive in
total: two were used for drums (L/R); four tracks of hard drive; two for guitars; one for the bass; two for the keyboards; one for the acoustic guitar; and four for vocals, the latter of which, he said, “sounded awesome”. “At a normal Feeling gig, we bring in our
consoles, load up our show files onto our consoles, plug in, and we’re away, but we couldn’t do that here, because we basically had to start from scratch,” he said. “To compensate for the separation, if you
like, the main thing that I had to do was to treat nearly everything with effects. I pulled up certain reverbs within the iLive and found an unobtrusive and big sound so the whole mix could have a little of that on it, just to give it that room sound, rather than settling with a clean and squeaky mix. “I also pulled up an ADT chorus effect for the BVs, which worked well,” added Sword.
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EFFICIENT ENGINEERING Sword said Freelance Engineer, Ste Pattison, who was working for Silentgig, did a particularly good job on educating him on the operation of iLive. Pattison is known for his work with Adlib Audio, but it was his time with Glasvegas last year that led to Silentgig speccing the iLive for the December Sessions.
of got used to it; and by the end of the set, the whole audience - and Gillespie-Sells - seemed to forget they were wearing them at all.
TOUGHEST OF CIRCUMSTANCES Stewart summed up the band’s experience of the silent gig standing alongside Gillespie-Sells in the Green Room, after the event. “It was a bit
“the [Yamaha] 950 kit did a sterling job in just about the toughest of circumstances.”
“I’d like to give a big shout-out to Silentgig,
to be honest; their engineer was extremely efficient and he made it very easy for me on the night,” he insisted. “And Phil Cummings at Sennheiser has been amazing for me over the last six or seven years. The band were well up for giving this a go for him.” And they seemed to enjoy the experience,
too. Gillespie-Sells is an excellent and endearing front man, and entertained the crowd throughout the 60-minute set, as The Feeling played hit after hit, including Fill my little World, Never be Lonely and a recently re-worked version of Rose, which is currently featured on the new Burberry advert. As a punter, wearing headphones felt odd at the beginning, but after a few numbers, I sort
of a challenge,” he smiled. “Dynamically, with the power of a live PA and the sheer power of a fully amplified live band, we found performing with our usual extensive dynamic range was not possible. “All things considered though, the [Yamaha]
950 kit did a sterling job in just about the toughest of circumstances; the speed and precision of sound editing meant it adapted quickly and fully to the task at hand and resulted in a novel and very enjoyable - if entirely odd - live performance experience. If only we’d been allowed to switch on the PA, though!” TPi
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www.allen-heath.com Photos by Richard Minter
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