“I’ve been using the Blitzer on the bass stem,” he explains, which has similar characteristics to one particular hardware compressor that he favors. It’s patch and play.”Īlthough Thomas is using a number of outboard analog processors, he’s also making extensive use of the Live console’s DSP. They just plug in, it pops up on my network, I drag and drop it in, and there it is, labeled. What I really like is that it picks up the labeling of whatever is plugged into it. “There aren’t many tours doing Dante like we are, where everybody can see everybody else’s stage racks, and everybody can pick up what they want off the network. “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,” he adds. Rather than transporting the stage inputs to FOH over MADI, which would be more typical, shows are built around a Dante infrastructure, so the tour is using SSL’s Network IO SB 32.24 Dante stage boxes. 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 more-suitable configuration for the Nurture tour, he says. On previous tours with the likes of Halsey, Thomas notes that he has typically used an SSL Live L550 for its processing capacity. “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. “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,” he continues. “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 ongoing Nurture Live Tour 2021 by EDM and electropop artist is Simon Thomas, at the helm of a Solid State Logic Live L200 digital mixing console integrated into a Dante-networked setup that supports Robinson’s live vocal, keyboards and sample pad with playback tracks.
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