It means we only have to run CAT 5 cables to front-of-house from the stage, which has worked well.”
“We put SSL’s Blacklight II Bridge in the front-of-house rack with me, so we’ve only got a short optical link to the console. On the Nurture tour, rather than transporting the stage inputs to FOH over MADI, which would be more typical, “The whole show is built around a Dante infrastructure, so we’re using SSL’s Network IO SB 32.24 Dante stageboxes, which is a little different,” Thomas says. With all the support acts, which include Jai Wolf and James Ivy, I’ve managed to fill up 96 paths on the console,” including a significant number of talkback channels. “I went for the L200 because I like the layout - it’s the best of the whole Live series - and there wasn’t any need for more processing power.
But the L200 is the ideal configuration for the Nurture tour, he says. On previous tours with the likes of Halsey, Thomas says, he has typically used an SSL Live L550, for its processing capacity. SSL Live L200: An ideal configurationSSL Live L200: An ideal configuration “My systems engineer on this tour said, ‘When you turn the PA on, it’s amazing the width and the depth of everything with SSL Live.’ It’s way better than anything he’s heard.” In fact, Thomas says, “Every time I plug an SSL Live console in with a new systems engineer, they go, ‘Wow, this is by far the best console for making the PA sound its best.’ Once you make the change to SSL Live it’s very hard to go back. T’s not just Thomas who appreciates the sound quality of SSL Live consoles.
“My view was that it sounded way better than anything else out there - and it still does.” “I’ve used SSL Live since 2014, when they started to come online,” says Thomas, a TPI Award-winning sound engineer whose touring clients over the past decade have included Halsey, Ariana Grande, Sara Bareilles, Sam Smith and Tori Kelly. At front-of-house on the Nurture Live Tour 2021 is Simon Thomas, at the helm of a Solid State Logic Live L200 digital mixing console integrated into a fully Dante-networked setup that supports Robinson’s live vocal, keyboards and sample pad with playback tracks. tour in late September that takes him from coast to coast and back again, promoting his long-awaited sophomore album, Nurture. Los Angeles, California, OctoEDM and electropop wunderkind Porter Robinson embarked on a two-month U.S. "Once you make the change to the SSL Live console it’s very hard to go back. Solid State Logic Live L200 Accompanies FOH Engineer Simon Thomas on Porter Robinson's Nurture Live Tour 2021
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