RÜFÜS UPDATE THEIR LIVE PROFILE

With only three days to port Rüfüs’s Coachella live show over to the Avid S6L and develop a new muscle memory, FOH Engineer Cam Trewin had to trust what his ears were telling him… that it was all worth it.

Standing front and centre on the floor of Adelaide Arena, Rüfüs FOH engineer Cam Trewin was torn between where his muscle memory was telling him to go and where his ears were beckoning him.

For Rüfüs’s Australian run of shows, Trewin had opted to try out Avid’s new flagship live console, the S6L. They’d just stepped off the plane from a North American tour during which he’d meticulously dialled in his Profile show in the lead up to Coachella. The jet lag was giving him the jitters and he was questioning the cogency of jumping on a new console on the eve of an arena tour. After one day in Novatech’s Adelaide factory getting the rundown, he had just two days of pre-production in Adelaide Arena to get the set back to or better than Coachella standards.

The Venue software compatibility worked a treat — his session had carried across from the Profile one-to-one as advertised, and his head amp gain settings stayed put — but without any Waves integration on the S6L, all the fine detail he’d spent months crafting on the Profile was gone. “I ended up tipping a Profile as well, because I freaked out a little when I first hit the ground,” said Trewin. “I didn’t feel comfortable at all.” Novatech kindly put in a third iso split so Trewin could pass everything through both consoles at the same time. With a direct comparison between the old Profile and new S6L, the sonic quality was winning him over fast: “You can really hear the new architecture; the default 96k sample rate, and the 64-bit AAX DSP plug-ins.”

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