Case Study: Stanford Jazz Festival achieves superior sound quality and faster setup with Avid Technology

Avid S3L Helps Deliver Legendary Performances at Stanford Jazz Festival

The Stanford Jazz Festival needed a live sound solution that could be turned around quickly between classroom use and evening performances while still delivering excellent audio quality. Using Avid Technology’s Avid VENUE | S3L-X system, the festival aimed to simplify setup and support multiple mixing needs for house, monitors, and recording.

Avid Technology’s VENUE | S3L-X system gave the Stanford Jazz Festival a compact, fast-to-deploy workflow with noticeably better sound quality. It also enabled up to 64 tracks of high-quality archival recording with seamless Pro Tools integration, making it easy to capture concerts in 24-bit, 48 kHz WAV format for the Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound.

Stanford Jazz Festival

Lee Brenkman

Live Sound Engineer