The DiGiCo Difference Arrives in Montreux

It’s than more 40 years since Claude Nobs created the Montreux Jazz Festival. In the intervening years, its diverse musical programme has grown to encompass much more than just jazz - Claude’s original and enduring passion – and continues to attract music fans and artists from Switzerland and around the world.

This year, DiGiCo is proud to become a sponsor of the Festival, an opportunity that has come its way as a result of Claude’s open minded approach to new ideas and technologies and his desire to make sure that everyone who visits the Festival has the best possible all round experience.

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British Indie Band Doves Soar Sonically On Global Tour With DiGiCo SD7 and SD8

British indie rockers Doves have flown the coop, currently headlining their first worldwide tour in four years in support of their latest and fourth outing, Kingdom of Rust. FOH engineer and diehard DiGiCo devotee, Paul Ramsay, specified an SD7 for the UK/Ireland bigger venue shows and an SD8 for the smaller club tour in the US. Monitor engineer Ian Barton has been using an SD8 for the entire tour run.

As a result of the band’s streamlined transportation accommodations for the U.S. leg of the tour (band bus plus gear trailer), plus the moderate venue sizes (1000 to 3000 capacity), and a scaled-down production budget, the group needed compact consoles to handle FOH and monitor necessities, with a small footprint that could handle the varying venue sizes with ease

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DiGiCo SD8 Relights Fires On Never Forget Tour

After a highly successful initial UK tour and equally triumphant run in London’s West End, Take That ‘tribute’ musical Never Forget is currently on a further, far more extensive, tour of UK venues. From Belfast to Brighton, Newcastle to Nottingham, audiences are relighting their fires and singing a million love songs with the benefit of a DiGiCo SD8 console at Front of House.

This is the first theatre production on which sound designer Richard Brooker has used an SD8, which he chose because it immediately addressed a range of the challenges that provincial tours inevitably throw up.

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Twin DiGiCo CS-D5s Provide Living Stream Of Sound At Dutch House Of Worship

Located close to the major conurbations of Amsterdam, Utrecht, Den Haag, Rotterdam and Leiden, the Levenstroom (Livingstream) church is a large format house of worship with a dedicated congregation. The church’s recent move to a brand new building has seen it embrace the latest in audio visual technology to produce an all-inclusive experience for its worshippers and to spread its message via the internet, radio, television, DVDs and CDs - all of which are fully produced in house.

To achieve this, the church needed to undertake a major upgrade of its audio system, which has seen a pair of DiGiCo CSD5 consoles installed, one at front of house, the other in its integrated studio facilities.

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