The Kidz Are Alright As Take That Tour With DiGiCo

As the fastest selling live tour in UK history, the production team on Take That’s Progress Live tour has been under enormous pressure to deliver a fantastic show to well over a million of the band’s ardent fans. The responsibility for ensuring that latest hits like The Flood and Kidz - as well as a host of older favourites - sound their best has been entrusted to no less than four DiGiCo SD7 mixing consoles.

Taking in 36 stadium dates across the UK, Ireland and Europe, the tour’s sound requirements have been supplied by Capital Sound, with help from Delta Sound. A DiGiCo SD7 is used to mix the Front of House sound, with a second as a spare and used to mix support act the Pet Shop Boys. Two more SD7s are on monitors - one for the five members of Take That, the other for the backing musicians - while a fifth DiGiCo console, an SD9,

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DiGiCo SD10B Hits A New High Note At Glyndebourne

In 1998, audio production companies Andy Rose Consultants (ARC) and Sound Moves used a Soundtracs DPC-II digital console to broadcast two live operas from the famous Glyndebourne venue in Sussex. Thirteen years on, the same two companies have facilitated another live broadcast for the same place, this time using the DPC-II’s latest successor, the DiGiCo SD10B

The performance of Wagner’s only comic opera, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, was broadcast live on 26th June to 19 Picturehouse cinemas throughout England, Scotland and across Europe, as well as on the Guardian newspaper’s web site.

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DiGiCo SD8s Anchor Bruno Mars - Janelle Monae's North American Retro Soul Tour

Showcasing a pair of emerging retro soul artists - Bruno Mars and Janelle Monae, along with opening acts, Plan B, Patrick Stump and Mayer Hawthorne - the two-month ‘Hooligans in Wondaland’ tour wound its way through sheds across North America in early summer. The Clair Global-supported outing was outfit with a double dose of DiGiCo SD8s - both equipped with DiGiCo/Waves SoundGrid bundle - plus two Digi-Racks (one stage 56 mic in/8 line out, and one local 8 mic in/40 line in/8 AES/EBU I/O, and 40 line out) per console. The consoles were shared among the acts’ respective engineers: Derek Brener (Mars FOH), Mike Graham (Mars monitors), Reggie Griffith (assistant FOH Monae), and Alex McCloud (Monae monitors) and Clair Systems Tech, Ben Rothstein.

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Europe's Biggest Open Air Festival Gets DiGiCo Treatment From Concept Solutions

The Donauinselfest – or Danube Island Festival – is a huge, free annual event that attracts millions of visitors to Vienna each June. This year, rental company Concept Solutions provided two DiGiCo SD8s for the Festival’s Front of House and monitor duties, supplied to them by DiGiCo’s Austrian distributor, TON Eichinger. 

Concept Solution's Raphael Rupprecht explains what was involved at this truly massive event. “This is a three-day festival featuring open-air stages around the island,” he says. “We started working at 9am every day, bands arrived at 10am for soundcheck and the show itself ran from 3pm to 12pm. It was a huge workload – we had to set up our standard backline, plus the individual amps and instruments for each band and sometimes there were as many as four drum kits on stage waiting to be miked up - but all acts ran smoothly and the overall mood was great.

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