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DiGiCo SD7 And SD8 Consoles At The Helm Of Full Sail Universitys Stunning New Full sail live VenueFour years ago, principles at Full Sail University commenced planning to create a multi-purpose, live performance venue. The award-winning school located in Winter Park Florida was created more than 30 years ago as a private learning hub catering to arts design and entertainment media. Over the past three decades, Full Sail has flourished to offer a broad spectrum of accredited, degree programs encompassing music and sound, as well as film, design, show production, games, animation, web design, and music business. After a year-plus of construction, “Full Sail Live” is finalized and slated to be one of the largest, dedicated sound stages for live concert training at an educational facility. Full Sail Live will serve numerous campus-wide events including live musical performances, monthly graduations, open house events, multi-visual presentations, guest lecture appearances, 16-speaker surround movie screenings and live concert student training sessions. The building is flanked by a new audio recording facility and linked by fiber for audio and video interfacing. DiGiCo SD7 and SD8 consoles 
The Cranberries On Tour With DiGiCo SD8 Digital ConsoleAfter re-forming in 2009, Irish rock band The Cranberries has embarked on a 2010 European Summer Tour. Their audio arsenal centres round a DiGiCo SD8 digital mixing console, manned by Oliver Waring at the crucially important monitor position. “I’ve been using DiGiCo consoles for a number of years,” says Waring. “I started out teching with a D5 when I was looking after Dave Guerin, monitor engineer for Morrissey. Then I inherited the monitor position and looked after Morrissey for a couple of years on the D5, later upgrading to an SD7. 
The Smashing Pumpkins Bring Crushing Big Sound To Small US Venues With DiGiCo SD8 and D1When Christina Aguilera postponed her 2010 Bionic Tour in the spring, engineer Jon Lemon was able to transition his gig - and the DiGiCo SD8 he was using for the tour’s promo leg—onto a Smashing Pumpkins’ run. Having worked extensively on an SD7 over the last few years with artists including Janet Jackson, Lemon wanted to use the few one-off gigs for Aguilera, including a VH1 “Storytellers” taping, to try out the SD7’s sibling. “I decided to go with the SD8 as I originally didn't need many inputs for Christina,” Lemon recalled. “Plus, I hadn’t really played around with one… But we ended up using every input and output on the console because the band kept expanding as we went along, adding strings, brass, etc. So when her tour got cancelled, I figured I’d take it out with the Pumpkins because it worked admirably and I’d gotten on really well with it.” 
DiGiCo SD8 Ticks All The Boxes For FaithlessArchetypal electronica band Faithless has been on tour since early this year, playing in clubs, theatres and on the summer festival scene across Europe. Such diversity in a schedule requires a mixing console that can adapt to any situation or size of venue and still deliver on functionality and audio quality. For the band’s monitor engineer Ben Milton, there is only one choice - the DiGiCo SD8. 
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 Crosby Stills Nash ............. And DiGiCoDespite having been through more ups and downs that virtually any band could feasibly cope with, 1960s folk-rock legends Crosby, Stills & Nash are still touring and bringing their unique harmony-infused, mellow protest songs to legions of fans. Helping the band to win over more admirers on every tour is Front of House engineer Kevin Madigan with his DiGiCo D5. CS&N are currently mid-way through an extensive tour, which has taken in a wide variety of venues and festivals throughout the US and Europe. 
DiGiCo SD7 Console At Helm Of Hotest Summer Tours
With the 2010 summer concert season in full swing, many of the most demanding stateside tours, in progress or on the horizon, entrust their audio to none other than DiGiCo’s flagship SD7 console. Raising the bar for live sound engineering with its Stealth Digital Processing and unique Super FPGA technology, the SD7 has become a familiar sight doing duty at FOH and/or monitors for tours of varying magnitudes and genres - 311, Arcade Fire, Eminem, Lady Gaga, Neil Young, Tool and Widespread Panic (with 8th Day Sound); Jay-Z, The Jonas Brothers, Maroon 5, Maxwell/Jill Scott, Nickelback, Rihanna, and U2 (Clair Global); Taylor Swift and Lenny Kravitz (Sound Image); Angels & Airwaves and Morrissey (Rat Sound); Los Tres (3G Productions); The Killers and Foo Fighters (Delicate Productions) - among a mere few! 
SK Systems Outfits Summer Doo Wop Concert with Newly Minted SD9 ConsoleSK Systems’ newly purchased DiGiCo SD9 fit the bill for the Richard Nader Memorial Doo Wop Concert XXI at the Izod Center Arena, Rutherford, NJ on June 12. This year's in-the-round event featured 10 artists performing throughout the night, with a grand finale with all artists on stage. In previous shows for Nader, production partner SK Systems used DiGiCo’s D-series and sister SD-series surfaces for this type of event. As one of the first companies in the world to purchase the newly minted SD9 - a compact, integrated system powered by DiGiCo’s patented Stealth Digital Processing™ SK Systems’ Tom Heinisch felt confident in putting the console front and center for the mega-show. 
Rolands SMadi Reac Bridge Expands Capability With DiGiCo D And SD Series SytemsRoland Systems Group debuted its S-MADI REAC Bridge at this year’s InfoComm Show in June. The S-MADI REAC Bridge, a bi-directional signal converter between MADI and REAC, enables connectivity between Roland’s REAC products (M-48 Personal Mixing System), to MADI-equipped digital audio mixers/systems including DiGiCo’s SD7, SD8 & SD9 and D Series consoles. DiGiCo’s Technical Director John Stadius worked closely with Roland engineers to ensure smooth functionality and interconnectivity with DiGiCo’s mixing systems. 
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