Creating beautiful, clear quality sound at live performance venues isn’t just for the experts.

There are simple and seamless, small-scale digital solutions that can create professional quality sound at any venue, be it a high school, club, place of worship, bar, outdoor concert, theater, university, conference center, or live music venue, like Jam Gallery, who are featured in the following video.

The sound achieved is so good that recording an album from a live performance is not only totally do-able, the process is a piece of cake. Along with this superior sound, Roland digital equipment is lighter than analog, easy to install, and immune to buzzes, hums and any interference.

Digital systems are much more user-friendly with less buttons and dials than analog, making the process simpler and more streamlined. In fact, venues who previously would’ve thought that a sophisticated setup is totally unmanageable are installing Roland digital audio systems and getting the full benefit because even the least-technical staff member is able to ‘recall’ common setups instantly.

In this clip, Conrad, the house sound engineer at Bondi’s Jam Gallery, walks you through the more technical side of their digital setup. They use a Roland M-480 V-Mixer with an R-1000 48-track recorder and a Digital Snake System to run multiple cables from the stage effortlessly back to the mixer.

A setup like this provides lots of benefits to the venue, the musicians, the staff, and the guests.

Firstly, for the venue, this setup is lightweight and unrestricted, so it can run anywhere you can imagine. Ideal for older buildings, like some churches, where renovating the walls isn’t an option. It’s also great for venues that don’t want to use analog cables that take three men to lift.

For the musicians, the benefits are ten-fold. As Conrad mentions, they use the R-1000 to record a short virtual rehearsal. This way the band can relax and not be drained before their performance, while Conrad fine tunes the sound in the entire venue, from that recording.

The musicians also benefit from having their performance recorded, with stunningly clear sound and their tracks can be easily transferred onto a hard drive to be post produced into an entire live album. But wait, that’s not all – some bands even offer their fans a USB stick of their performance at the end of their concert for instant gratification.

The time-saving speed, flexibility and reliability of this system is a major benefit to staff and their anxiety level, because, as we know, there aren’t any do-overs in live performance.

As far as the benefits for guests are concerned, the proof is in the sound quality and clarity. They will be caught up in the music, the atmosphere and the environment without even thinking about the system involved – and this is exactly what any venue owner wants.

Take a look at the clip to get a deeper understanding of how Conrad uses this system and the benefits he and the Jam Gallery get out of it. A seamlessly simple solution for quality live sound results.