DiGiCo's Got The X Factor!

Over three months of Saturday night television saw primetime UK talent show The X Factor crown its latest winner in time to get the coveted Christmas Number 1 chart slot. February and March 2009 gave many of the finalists and their newly found fans a chance to get up close and personal as the X Factor Live tour played multiple shows at the UK and Ireland’s main arenas.

With a live backing band and the various different performers singing individually before all coming together for the finale, it is a complex show to mix. But with sales and rental company Wigwam Acoustics supplying a DiGiCo SD7

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DiGiCo SD7 Gives Lionel Richie The Feel Good Factor All Night Long

When king of croon Lionel Richie embarked on an extensive European arena tour to promote his latest studio album, Just Go, front of house engineer Lars Brogaard was in no doubt which console was going to be there mixing the house sound - a DiGiCo SD7.

Lars’s relationship with DiGiCo is a long one - he was the first engineer to take a D5 console on tour and was involved from the early days of the SD7’s development, helping with BETA testing of the new console to ensure it delivered everything that leading live sound engineers need. 

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Crews Get Cold Feet But DiGiCo Warms The Heart At Canada's East Coast Music Awards

Celebrating its 21st year, the 2009 East Coast Music Awards, Festival and Conference saw many leading artists and industry figures come together in Corner Brook, Newfoundland & Labrador, for a four day conference and celebration of Canada’s East Coast music scene.

With a complex, two stage production to mix the sound for, DiGiCo consoles were chosen to ensure that everything ran seamlessly on the night. Supplied by Nova Scotia-based Tour Tech East, a D1 was used at monitors, while front of house engineer David W. Hillier manned an SD7

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D5 - Simply Perfect

When Chris ‘Privet’ Hedge set out on the current world tour as Front of House engineer with Simply Red, there was one piece of equipment he would not have left home without: a DiGiCo D5 console.

This year, the tour has taken in Thailand, Australia, New Zealand, Chile, Brazil, Mexico and the USA before heading for Europe, starting in Glasgow, at the end of March. That is a lot of different environments. Why did Privet choose the D5 and how has it performed?

“I’ve used the D5 for three years now, with KT Tunstall, Mika, Alicia Keys and now Simply Red,” he says.

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