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McCain Takes StudioLive On The Road

Singer/songwriter Edwin McCain maintains a busy touring schedule, gigging solo or accompanied by different configurations of his band, almost always with a pair of PreSonus StudioLive 24.4.2 digital consoles in tow.

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Baton Rouge, LA (March 5, 2012)—Singer/songwriter Edwin McCain maintains a busy touring schedule, gigging solo or accompanied by different configurations of his band, almost always with a pair of PreSonus StudioLive 24.4.2 digital consoles in tow.

“We carry two StudioLive consoles—one for FOH and one for monitors,” says McCain’s long-time front-of-house engineer, Brent Moreland. “They’re on the road with us constantly, and unless it’s a really tight schedule, we’ll almost always plug in our console instead of using the house desk. The preamps sound better than pretty much any other console out there.”

A 24-channel splitter connects the FOH and monitor desks, and Moreland makes multi-track recordings of every gig from front of house. “I use Ableton Live for recording at the moment, but only because Capture doesn’t do more than 24 tracks with a StudioLive 24.4.2,” Moreland explains. “When we have the full band, I need more than 24 tracks, and you can get 32 audio streams out of the StudioLive.”

Although Moreland carries an iPad, he opts to mix from the console, rather than use the StudioLive’s remote-mixing capabilities. “I don’t really do much walking away from the desk during the show,” he says. But McCain is quite interested in using the new QMix iPhone/iPod touch app to dial up individual monitor mixes on stage. “I love the idea of just going over to the top of my amp and making an adjustment,” he says.

“One of the biggest enemies of gear on the road is vibration,” Moreland observes. “Especially with circuit boards and solder joints, that constant vibration will slowly kill almost any electronics. But the StudioLive boards have held up, even after a couple of years on the road.”

McCain concludes, “We’re out playing clubs day in and day out, and it’s amazing how many times we’ll load in, and a club’s sound guy will look skeptically at our PreSonus consoles. Then we turn them on, and everybody goes ‘Oh wow…’ because they sound great, and they’ve got all the features of their high-priced consoles.”

PreSonus Audio Electronics
www.presonus.com

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