Audient's EVO Expanded System Powers Pioneering Live Show Starring Simon Shackelton British audio gear manufacturer Audient co-sponsored The Shadowmaker, a new show from English electronic musician and DJ Simon Shackleton, which recently premiered at Denver's Holiday Theatre. Created by Shackleton and his filmmaker wife Chele Gutek, The Shadowmaker features live performances of songs from his new album of the same name. The audio rig included the EVO SP8, the eight-channel smart preamp with AD/DA. Pairing that with his EVO 16 audio interface, Shackleton had 16 channels of inputs and outputs with EVO Expanded System. EVO is a sub-brand of Audient gear. "The EVO SP8 is the perfect addition to the EVO 16 for my live shows, where I need more than eight channels of audio going out to FOH," Shackleton says. "It's super simple to daisy-chain the two units using a pair of optical cables, and the sound quality of the SP8 is every bit as seamless and high-end as that of the EVO 16. With the extra eight channels the SP8 gives me, I can give the front-of-house engineer way more control over my audio channels coming from Ableton." Best known as the DJ Elite Force, Shackleton uses The Shadowmaker to showcase his talents as a vocalist and keyboardist, bringing echoes of Pink Floyd, Massive Attack, David Bowie, and Thom Yorke to his new compositions of introspective electronica, accompanied by drummer Jez Noble. 
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