Former Roxy Music member Brian Eno celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, by introducing the first of two live performances of his 1983 composition Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks in the IMAX Cinema at the Science Museum in London.
Mark Hornsby’s company Headtec were appointed by the Science Museum to provide the sound, and Icebreaker’s FOH sound engineer Alexander Bossew requisitioned a Soundcraft Vi6 digital console as his first choice.
“I specified this, because it is so easy to produce a warm sound without having to EQ like mad,” he said. “Also the few compressors that I used were working very discreetly.”
The composition adapted by Jun Lee, required the use of a lot of reverb. “The IMAX is completely dry and I had to use six different internal Lexicon reverbs, which sounded excellent,” he said.
In conclusion, the sound engineer says his love of the Vi6 is based on its amazing sound, and the fact that he can work quickly on the surface “even when setting up more sophisticated patches that would be almost impossible to realise on analogue (and many digital) desks.”
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http://www.soundtech.co.uk/soundcraft/news/vi6-eno-apollo11
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