Based in LA's fashionable Santa Monica area, the Temple Bar is a unique music venue hosting local, national and international artists performing a spectrum of music covering the genres of jazz, electronica, indie, hip hop, soul, latin, reggae, and world music. There is also a house DJ performing between acts, and the venue regularly organises film screenings and poetry nights.
The Temple Bar's music director and chief mixing engineer, Swan, commented, "The sound of the console is magnificent, I've been mixing at the Temple Bar for five years, I have never hear the room sound like this before. It brought our sound system alive! Its compact footprint fit perfectly in our sound booth, and our mixing engineers have been overjoyed. The mic-pres are detailed and warm, and the iLive's mixes have excellent stereo imaging. People are really taking notice. I've done a lot of mixing on the other digital consoles and the sound of the iLive blows it away."
Comprising the iDR-10 stage rack and iLive-144 control surface, the Temple Bar is using 40 channels of audio. Four aux mixes are used for stage monitors. In addition, the there are three matrix feeds: mono sum for separate bar room feed and a stereo feed for recording. Swan is using onboard compression, reverbs, and delay effects, "The compressors sound fantastic; they are very musical on vocals.
(Jim Evans)
