Hosted by a local radio personality and supported by More FM Radio, the community-based event was held in Masterton’s main park and featured a performance by the Nick Tansley Big Band, custom-created for the event using session musicians and fronted by the host himself.

iLive managed FOH and monitor sound for the 26-piece band. The iDR10 MixRack was installed on stage linked via CAT5 cable to the iLive-144 Control Surface at FOH, whilst monitor sound was mixed on stage over WIFI with a laptop loaded with iLive Editor control software. An analogue splitter was not needed as Noise Productions used iLive’s digital patchbay to split the inputs in the iDR10 MixRack into two channels, one set up for FOH and the other for mixing the required 18 monitor sends.

“You should have seen the look on the artists’ faces when I stood beside them at their wedge and asked them what they wanted to hear and did it there and then!” explains Noise Productions’ MD, Toby Mills, who was monitor engineer for the evening. “iLive is so simple to install, we managed to set up the whole concert in 3 hours with 3 people – it’s saving me an absolute fortune in labour alone. Packing up monitor world at the end of the night consisted of closing the lid on my laptop and putting it in its case. The year before I used an analogue console and it took an hour to pack up the analogue split patch and a mountain of cable.”

“iLive is getting rave reviews in New Zealand and certainly everyone who uses mine is just blown away by it,” concludes Mills.