CAMBRIDGE, United
Kingdom – One of the longest running folk festivals in the world, the Cambridge
Folk Festival recently celebrated its 50th anniversary, drawing an
audience of approximately 10,000 people. Taking advantage of this historical
occasion, SSE Hire provided HARMAN Soundcraft Vi6 digital consoles for the main
and second stage, while also using the Soundcraft Realtime Rack on the second
stage.
The result of a unique collaboration
between Soundcraft and renowned plugin manufacturer, Universal Audio, the
Soundcraft Realtime Rack brings industry-standard UAD studio plugins to the
Soundcraft platform.
Connecting to Vi Consoles via Optical
MADI, the Realtime Rack hosts Universal Audio’s authentic hardware emulations
and award-winning UAD plugins. Each
Realtime Rack unit processes up to 16 channels of a MADI stream and up to four
racks can be cascaded together to provide a maximum of 64 channels.
“The Realtime Rack
offers 74 plug-ins, all of which are designed and produced by UAD,” said
Richard Watts of SSE Sales. “The great thing about UAD plugins is that every
single one is signed off by the original outboard unit manufacturer. This
ensures that each one is as close to the real thing as possible, making them
some of the best plugins on the market.”
"We had a request from FOH engineer
Jesse Godolphin to supply a Realtime Rack for use with the Soundcraft Vi6 at
Cambridge Folk Festival," Watts continued. "SSE Hire once again
supplied the PA systems for the festival and Jesse was looking after FOH for
the second stage, a role he's had since 2007."
Already a
fan of UAD plugins, Jesse Godolphin expanded on his choice of the Soundcraft
rack. "I was using a Vi6 for Cambridge so when Soundcraft launched the
Realtime Rack, I thought it would be ideal for the festival." Godolphin was
certainly not disappointed. "I have mixed FOH at Cambridge Folk festival
for many years and I can easily say with the UA 1176LN plugin I got best the
vocal sound ever."
Godolphin
found the unit user friendly. "I was very impressed with the ease of which
you could select and recall compressors, effects and EQ. Navigating around the
software was very easy and intuitive. A very handy function was the HARMAN HiQnet™
software, which linked the Vi6 to the Realtime Rack. With HiQnet I could recall
and store snapshots just on the Vi6, which was very handy for quick changeovers.
Patching MADI inserts was very quick too, as I could have 16 plugins ready
patched across the Rack MADI stream and then assign them to any channel.
Copying and pasting plugins on the fly was very easy too."
The Realtime
Rack is available for hire and sale from SSE Audio Group.
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