Delta Live Invests In The Future Of Live Sound

Delta Live have been deployed across some of the UK's most iconic live events and venues.

The BBC Proms, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and London’s Roundhouse are all beneficiaries of the company’s investment in 2025, which has seen a range of new equipment, audio systems and vital infrastructure deployed across the venues.

In May this year, Delta Live renewed its partnership with the Roundhouse in Camden to be its exclusive audio solutions supplier, and has since been overhauling the venue’s digital infrastructure, cabling, rack infrastructure, SD racks, bit cards, and PA and control systems. Key additions include two DiGiCo Quantum 326 digital mixing consoles, an L-Acoustics A-Series ground package, enhanced PA boxes, and a new microphone package that includes the Shure Axient wireless mics.

Over at the Royal Albert Hall, Delta Live has been producing the sound for the BBC Proms for more than 20 years and has recently installed significant upgrades including DPA microphones, the L-ISA II Processor from L-Acoustics, as well as acquiring transform.engine by Fourier Audio and PRODIGY.MX from Direct Out Technologies; investments that have proved transformational.

"Adopting transform.engine meant we could start this season with a library of industry standard plugins from fabfilter and Valhalla DSP for every rehearsal and show without having to bring in extra hardware," said Stephen Hughes, head of music, Delta Live. "It has transformed how we approach mixing the BBC Proms, knowing that we have the best tools on the market at our fingertips."

PRODIGY.MX is a market leader in multi-format audio matrixing and has added an invaluable flexibility for the team to route between live sound and broadcast desks. "The most important part of the BBC Proms technical infrastructure is the audio split between the live sound teams and the broadcast teams," explained Hughes. And with more than 200 inputs being shared with the radio and TV sound teams, any issues with the audio split can jeopardise the live broadcast. "Whilst it seems like a small innocuous unit tucked away under the stage in the Royal Albert Hall, PRODIGY.MX has been one of the most essential bits of kit in keeping the show on the air."

With Delta Live also supporting 24 venues at this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival with upgraded QLab playback systems, 2025 has proven to be a statement of intent from the company.

"These investments demonstrate our commitment to delivering the latest cutting-edge audio solutions for the UK's live events market," said Jonathan Bell, operations director, Delta Live. "But they also show that we're serious about investing in the future of live sound. We’re proud to be pioneering the deployment of innovations and next-generation systems that will revolutionise live experiences for audiences, artists, venues and events around the world."

The investments cap off a landmark year for the company in which it has also worked on some of the UK’s most iconic ceremonial events including the 80th anniversary VE Day celebrations in London and its third year running PA systems for Trooping the Colour.

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