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Riccardo Parravvicini manages the sound at the FOH position. Riccardo explains some of the technically salient points of the show. "The first part was managed totally live, without backing tracks. We worked together with Niccol by choosing all the effects for the guitar and voice combined with a series of effects that were managed from my mixing position (delay, harmonizer, reverbs etc...). Half way through the concert, without interruption, on Niccol's last chord, I start a pre-recorded sound of about 2 minutes, which allows the musicians to sit on stage for the opening of the second part of the concert. Niccol needs to listen to my sound effects in headphones for his first solo so that he can play along with the FX. To achieve this, I sent two stems (one with the instrument and one with the voice) to the stage engineer (Simone Bonetto) with all the effects. In the second part of the concert, we added the orchestra, drums, percussion, and guitars as well as some channels of backing tracks, the click, and the LTC for light sync.

The pre-mix of the orchestra is managed by Davide Dell 'Amore (a sound engineer who works with Enrico Melozzi and the Clandestine Night Orchestra). The audio setup is based on a redundant Optocore loop connected to a DiGiCo SD5 on stage, two DiGiCo SD Rack 56-32, and the DiGiCo SD12 at FOH for the orchestra. In addition to all this, Parravvicini controls the audio feed from his Waves LV1 mixer.

The sound system consists of 18 GTX modules per side as well as two side 12 modules, all amplified with the new RCF XPS 16KD amplifiers. All subwoofers, double 21" TTS 56-A, are on the ground, with 10 HDL 26-A serving the first rows as front fill. All speakers are connected via RDNet for control and optimization and to the Dante network via four DX 1616 processors for audio.

Parravvicini concludes, "The audience was enthusiastic, the artist was very happy and the show was very enjoyable, so I can tell you that I am very pleased with the result and had a geat time.. The PA is a great discovery, it responded perfectly and translates my pre-mix made during rehearsals without corrections. Excellent balance, especially in the high frequencies. I found a great uniformity of listening within the entire area, a sign that the audio project was executed well, but also that the GTX sounds amazing. My sincere congratulations to Emanuele Morlini who supported me, he is an excellent system engineer, as well as the RCF team!"