dLive Showcases Talents with X Factor Colombia Columbia – An Allen & Heath dLive mixing system was chosen by freelance audio engineer, Richard Cardenas to handle live mixing duties for the X Factor Colombia 2020 TV series. X Factor Colombia 2020 was filmed at RCN Televisión’s studios in Bogotá. Production began in early 2020 but was suspended for eight months due to the Covid 19 pandemic. Filming resumed under stringent Covid precautions in October, with the grand final airing just before the end of the year. Richard’s dLive set-up was built around a CDM48 MixRack, controlled from a 36 fader S7000 surface. Richard managed all the contestants’ IEM mixes, plus FoH and monitor mixes for the contestants, judges and audience. The audio configuration in the studio consisted of an LR stereo matrix out, a matrix mono sub out, stereo aux mixes feeding side fills, a mono floor wedge set-up and a stereo aux mix for the judges’ side-fill. For the earlier recordings an audience pa mix was also fed to a stereo matrix. A DX012 12 output expander was employed to provide additional AES feeds to a 96kHz loudspeaker management system. Richard tapped into Allen & Heath’s array of networking options, choosing a Dante 64x64 card to feed the broadcast desk using dLive’s tie lines feature, plus a superMADI card for backup recording to a Pixel Power system.