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SSE Audio Group Invests In DiGiCo SD7Leading European rental company, SSE Audio Group, has invested in a DiGiCo SD7 to add to its extensive stock of high-end sound equipment. Managing director, John Penn, explains the decision: “Since we invested in DiGiCo D5s in 2004, they have been consistently in demand and very reliable. The low cost of ownership, coupled with these factors, has made the consoles produce a great return on what we initially perceived as a high investment cost. 
311s Year Of Change Includes DiGiCo SD7 At FOH On Summer Unity Tour2009 has been a year of change for 311. Not only has the group returned from a lengthy hiatus with a new sound on the Bob Rock-produced release, Uplifter - their first in nearly 5 years—but they’ve also returned with a new live sound. For the first time ever, the band’s long-time FOH engineer and production manager, John Markovich decided to make the move from his Midas XL4 to a DiGiCo SD7 for FOH, starting with a month-long headlining tour in April, and later on their 25-city Unity Tour - with Ziggy Marley and The Expendables - from June to late July. 
DiGiCo Consoles Jazz It Up At MontreuxSince 1967, the annual Montreux Jazz Festival has embraced a highly varied range of performers, from the loosest of freeform jazz through to contemporary stars of rock, pop, rap and RnB. 2009 saw the introduction of DiGiCo as a sponsor, with 10 of the company’s consoles used in the festival’s main venues. SD7s were located at Front of House and monitors in both Auditorium Stravinski and the Miles Davis Hall; while SD8s were in use in the MDH Club, Le Petit Palais, Jazz Hub and B4, Montreux Jazz Café and the outdoor Parc Vernex. DiGiCo also supplied an SD8 for engineer training and programming purposes.
Tejas Trio ZZ Top Team Up With Areosmith On U.S Tour With Dual DiGiCo SD8sAfter a month-long solo trek through Europe early in 2009, ZZ Top teamed with fellow Rock & Roll Hall of Famers Aerosmith for a massive North American tour, currently steamrolling through cities across the nation into late September. For the Tejas trio, this is a warm-up of sorts, as next year marks the band’s 40th anniversary as well as the release and subsequent tour to promote their first studio recording in five years (produced by Rick Rubin). 
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Inside This Issue
 DiGiCo Set For Another Exciting PlasaDiGiCo is ready for another busy and exciting PLASA. This year, Stand 1-G9 will feature its range of SD Series consoles, as well as the CS-D5 from the D Series. 
DiGiCo SD8 Converts Quadrophenia Sound DesignerFollowing the February 2007 stage production of The Who’s Quadrophenia by students from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, the show was developed into a full touring production, playing in 20 different towns and cities throughout England and Scotland between May and November 2009. Although this is the first production on which the show’s sound designer Jason Barnes has used a DiGiCo console, with an SD8 at Front of House, he already admits that he’s a convert. 
Tool Summer Tour Toolbox Incorporates DiGiCo SD8Tool announced dates for a summer tour that will take the Grammy-award winning band through cities in the U.S. and Canada - including headlining appearances at All Points West and Lollapalooza festivals. 8th Day Sound staff engineer, Stephen Curtain, has worked with the band since 2006’s “10,000 Days” tour, first as a systems tech and later as their monitor engineer. Although he’s worked with numerous DiGiCo desks previously, this is his first outing with a DiGiCo SD8. 
Touhill Performing Arts Center In St.Louis Upgrades to Digital With DiGiCo SD8The Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center located within the campus of the University of Missouri-St. Louis and houses the 1,625-seat Anheuser-Busch Performance Hall. Showcasing theater, musicals, opera, classical music, dance, popular entertainers from Jazz to World music, as well as University arts, music and dance events, it is the only performance space of its size in St. Louis. 
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