Saturday 13 September 2025
For Shiva's Regal Project
Shiva's Regal Project live at Bryan Brown Theatre
Front-of-house and monitor mixing, wireless in-ears, and multitrack recording for a big eight-piece band at the Bryan Brown Theatre in Bankstown.
The challenge
A large ensemble is a monitoring problem before it is a front-of-house problem. Shiva's Regal Project brings six vocals plus drums, percussion, bass, two guitars, and keys. That is a lot of inputs and a lot of people who each need to hear a different blend to play well, and if the monitors are wrong the show suffers before a single fader moves out front.
Our approach
We ran two engineers, one dedicated to monitors and one at front-of-house, so neither mix was a compromise made by one person spread too thin. Every musician was on wireless in-ears with their own mix, vocals and key sources ran through Shure ULXD wireless, and a multitrack rig captured every input to its own track independent of the room mix.
The result
The band heard themselves cleanly on stage, which is what lets a large group actually lock in. Front-of-house held six vocals and a full rhythm section together for the room, and the night was captured as a multitrack the band can mix and release later.
Shiva’s Regal Project is a big band: six vocalists out front, with drums, percussion, bass, two guitars, and keys behind them. That many people on one stage at the Bryan Brown Theatre is a monitoring job first and a front-of-house job second. We handled both audio and a full multitrack recording of the show.
The thing an eight-piece feels first is the monitors. Six vocalists each need to hear themselves and the people they are harmonising with, the rhythm section needs the groove without the vocals on top, and nobody can play to a mix that is fighting them. So we put a dedicated engineer on monitors, separate from the front-of-house engineer, and ran the whole band on wireless in-ears with an individual mix for each musician. One person trying to do both jobs on a band this size ends up doing neither one well.
Out front, the work was holding six vocals and a full rhythm section together for the room without any single part disappearing. Vocals and the key sources ran on Shure ULXD wireless, coordinated in advance so nothing dropped out mid-set.
Underneath all of it, a multitrack rig recorded every input to its own track, independent of the room mix. That means the night is not gone when the house lights come up. The band can mix and master the recording properly afterwards and release it, rather than being stuck with a phone video from the third row. If you are putting a band on stage and want the monitors, the room, and the recording all handled by people who do this for a living, send us the brief.
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