Wim Daans - Night of the Proms Tour

Wim Daans is one of the new breed of multifaceted technicians, blurring the lines between artistry, production and technology in a diversity of disciplines. In his early career he played synths on tour with several EDM bands like the notorious Lords of Acid, and achieved kult status with his ambient solo-project Karma de la Luna. Over the years he shifted his focus several times and worked as a sound designer, studio producer, backline technician, video editor and stagemanager. In all of those positions, Wim's passionate love and extensive use of the latest hi-tech equipment has always been his driving motor.

"For my recordings and sound design work I want the best sound possible without much fuzz. My RME UFX can handle any level, whether I feed it delicate mic levels or bleeding hot signals from my modular synth. And with it's range of analog-digital-MIDI connectivity it's really like the swiss army knife in my home studio. I can even use it with my iPad !"

For Night of the Proms, one of Europe's biggest arena-touring productions, Wim operates a dual DAW setup on stage, running clicktracks, backing tracks and timecode for syncing light and video.

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The Fireface[nbsp]UFX+ is used as the main Audio Interface for the playback tracks of the show to feed the Digico Monitor and FOH desks via MADI.[nbsp]At the same time the Fireface UFX+ is used as a switcher, together with the ARC USB to switch between a backup Macbook with a UFX and a ADI-648, which converts ADAT to MADI.

Simultaneously the Fireface UFX+ is also used a talkback Matrix switcher, also controlled with the ARC USB and different presets, to talk to the different technicians in the hall and the musicians on stage.[nbsp]Maarten Mees uses an Fireface UFX+ during the show to record tracks which could be useful in the post production of the TV recording. Things like timecode, midi information from V-drum to have the possibility to do drum replacements easily, the clicktrack and ambient mics.