Case Study: Happy Mondays achieves consistent live sound and rapid soundchecks with Avid VENUE | S3L

Happy Mondays Celebrate 25 Years with Avid VENUE | S3L

Happy Mondays needed a consistent, space-saving live sound solution for their 25th anniversary UK tour of *Bummed*, especially because limited splitter-bus space meant front-of-house and monitor engineers had to work with whatever desks were available at each venue. To keep the band’s mix reliable from show to show, they turned to **Avid Technology** and the **Avid VENUE | S3L** system.

**Avid Technology** provided two Avid S3L systems through SSE Audio Group, giving the crew a compact, portable setup with consistent VENUE software, Pro Tools integration, and Virtual Soundcheck capabilities. The result was faster setups, with the band ready to soundcheck in about **30 minutes** after load-in, plus stable monitor mixing and high-quality archiving of up to **64 channels** over a single Cat5e cable.

Happy Mondays

Gerry Parchment

Front of Fouse Engineer