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Long Beach Terrace Theater steps up to DiGiCo Quantum desks

As part of an upgrade during 2024, Long Beach Convention & Entertainment Center’s Terrace Theater, a 3,000-seat venue which opened in 1962, has installed a new pair of DiGiCo audio mixing consoles - a Quantum338 and Quantum225, both supplied by Huntington Beach-based dealer Apex Audio.

Mike Glines, the center’s head audio tech, has a long history with digital audio, participating in the decision to switch from tape to DAW as the recording medium of choice at Capitol Studios in Hollywood while on staff at the facility. He has also used a wide variety of digital mixing consoles, both in the studio and on the road with a host of artists, including a long globetrotting stint with Gary Numan. Glines designed the new DiGiCo system for the Long Beach Terrace Theater.

The custom installation is designed to accommodate any requirement, enabling visiting productions to use both DiGiCo consoles or simply integrate either the Quantum338 or a Quantum225. For instance, a touring band might have a front-of-house console but need a monitor desk, or vice versa. “I got Optocore for that reason, to interface with touring systems”, Glines explains. “We also got two SD-Racks and an SD-MiNi Rack that I use to feed my amps via AES. I love the fact that DiGiCo boards have DMI cards in the back, which you can swap in and out. I also got a Dante card, two input cards and two output cards, so I’ve got everything I need without even having to hook up a rack.”

The two new Quantum consoles are fully mobile, Glines continues. The Terrace Theater has first call on the consoles, he stresses, but they can alternatively be used at other locations within the center’s campus, such as the 13,000-plus-seat Long Beach Arena, Pacific Ballroom, or smaller Beverly O’Neill Theater. “Or you could take them outside for an event - wherever there is a need”, he adds. “I do the ‘Long Beach Symphony Pops!’ series in the Arena, so I’ve used the DiGiCos for that.”

For over four decades, David Wilcox, artistic director of the Long Beach Ballet, has staged a spectacular production of “The Nutcracker” with the Long Beach Ballet Orchestra at the Terrace Theater. The most recent string of performances of the holiday classic, Long Beach Ballet’s 42nd annual production, was Gline’s first since the new DiGiCo Quantum338 has been available at FOH.

Wilcox has always expected at least a stereo mix of the orchestra’s rehearsals, he continues, but in past years the recordings have been less than ideal. “They just didn’t sound great because I was cranking the PA with this delicate orchestra, so I was getting some bleed into the microphones. But this time, I was able to record 48 tracks straight to my laptop through the printer cable. The DiGiCo Quantum Series has UB MADI built in, so I could just take a printer cable out to my old FireWire drive.”

Pictured: Mike Glines and monitor engineer Jason Arteaga. (Photos: DiGiCo)

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