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Combining forces for the first time, The Manhattan Transfer and Take 6 - two of the most acclaimed, award-winning vocal groups in music - create an unforgettable concert experience on the Summit Tour. Between them, the two groups boast a remarkable 20 GRAMMY Awards and a wide range of styles. The tour also marks The Manhattan Transfer's 40th Anniversary of their debut recording on Atlantic Records, while Take 6 has been performing their innovative arrangements for 36 years now, demonstrating why this sextet is recognized as one of the preeminent a cappella groups in the world.
The Roland M-5000 OHRCA Live Mixing Console deployed at front-of-house for the Take 6 / The Manhattan Transfer tour.
Managing 10 voices plus a backup band is a complex task for FOH mixer Matt Svobodny and monitor mixer Bryan Farina, but using a pair of Roland M-5000 OHRCA Live Mixing Consoles, they help two of music's most legendary vocal groups perform a flawless show night after night. A typical Summit Tour show sees each group perform several pieces on their own, then combine on the next several numbers, then perform a few of each others' songs before bringing it all together on a combined performance of The Manhattan Transfer's hit Birdland as the closer. During the set, Svobodny - who also serves as Production Manager for the tour - is not only mixing the show for the audience but also handling Take 6's monitors from the same Roland M-5000 desk. He also has one other critical task: giving the vocalists their pitch cues using a piano app on an iPad that sends the key note to their in-ear monitors. It puts some extra pressure on me - I have to be careful and pick my moments as they're doing their between-song [patter], he says. The M-5000 really helps me in that regard. The scenes help limit the number of button pushes I have to do. Also, we have a 40-input show and ten of those as vocals, so I need to keep all of those and some other key things, such as certain effects returns, available on the faders. I can configure the layers in such a way that everything I need is always at my fingertips. On other consoles, I'd be going back and forth between layers to get at what I needed. On the M-5000, I can keep just about the whole show on one layer.
Monitor engineer Bryan Farina is having a similarly positive experience on his M-5000. The latency on the M-5000 is just right for IEMs, he says, noting that The Manhattan Transfer uses a combination of IEMs in one ear and wedges for monitors, always a tricky combination because of timing differentials. Also, the M-5000 sounds great, which enables me to focus on fine tuning mixes as opposed to constantly making EQ changes. Farina also likes the M-5000's onboard effects. I've been working with the M-5000 for a while now - I even own one - and it lets me work the way I want to for any situation, he says. Take 6 has a pretty sophisticated panning arrangement, and the M-5000 lets me give them what they need quickly and easily. I don't have to flip faders to get at what I need. It's all right there.
Take 6 and The Manhattan Transfer, combined as one ensemble for the collaborative portion of their concerts.
The Summit Tour also has a pair of Roland S-2416 digital snake stage units in the system. The S-2416 provides a 24 input x 16 output analog and 8 input x 8 output digital, for a total of 32 input and 24 output channels, all through just a pair of Cat-5 cables. Using the REAC ports, I can send a direct out from the FOH console to monitors, says Svobodny. (The Roland Ethernet Audio Communication protocol enables up to 40x40 channels of audio at 24-bit/96Khz to be transferred across a single Cat5e cable.) It's made the system simpler while also making it more reliable. In fact, says Svobodny, the Roland products are allowing him and Farina to manage a complex production that might have required twice as many people otherwise. We're just a small crew, but because of systems like the M-5000, we're able to travel separately in a cargo van and arrive ahead of the artists, letting them get more rest while we set up a sound system that's very manageable, he says. That's a great thing.
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