Cage The Elephants Wields DiGiCo SD8 For Live Monitor Stampede

Groove merchants, Cage The Elephant, settled into Nashville’s Soundcheck rehearsal space last November in preparation for a mini US outing, and later the band’s first worldwide headlining tour. Propelled by the January launch of their second release, Thank You, Happy Birthday” - with the single, “Shake Me Down”, riding high on the Billboard charts - it was a time of new beginnings. For monitor engineer Jay Rigby, the change came in the form of a console swap, from another digital mixing console that offered plug-ins to that of a DiGiCo SD8. It was the analog-sounding mic pres that initially sealed the deal, but when the band started the challenging task of packing everything into a behind-the-bus trailer for the road, it was the small footprint and all-in-one package that proved invaluable. Once the tour commenced, it was the RME MadiFace card for recording that made the change a slam-dunk all around.

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The Boys Are Back With DiGiCo - Thin Lizzy Do Anything They Want To With The 500th SD8

Despite being a little older - and no doubt wiser - since Lizzy’s infamous hell-raising days, the band still insists on a ‘no compromise’ approach to playing live. So it is just as well DiGiCo’s 500th SD8 console has been there to handle the monitor mix.
Currently Lizzy stalwarts Brian Downey, Scott Gorham and Darren Wharton are joined onstage by Marco Mendoza, former Almighty frontman Ricky Warwick and Def Leppard’s Vivian Campbell. All are very much from the “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” school of rock so, for the band’s recent UK and European tour, monitor engineer Phil Shenton used the tried-and-tested formula that has served hard rock well for decades.

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DiGiCo In Audio Trenches At The Technology Driven 2011 ESPN X-Games

The annually produced Winter X Games in Aspen, CO is one of the largest single broadcast events that ESPN does in a year. This season’s X Games edition - its fifteenth - was the first broadcast in discrete 5.1 surround sound, and made the historic journey to be the first to be transmitted in live 3D video.

Winter X Games sports a variety of sonic landscapes, including the outdoor Moto X motorcross venue, where the challenge of efficiently capturing the track’s sound effects is the job of ESPN senior audio mixer, Denis Ryan. In terms of capturing sound similarities, Moto venue is probably closest to that of the NASCAR track - where Ryan has mixed at for many years since 1991. For the 2011’s competition, Ryan mixed the Moto venue track effects on a DiGiCo SD8 digital workstation

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Natalia Meets .......... The DiGiCo SD7

Belgian singer Natalia recently staged the third of her Natalia Meets… series of concerts, this time six shows with American superstar Anastacia as a special guest. Over 100,000 enthusiastic fans enjoyed the concerts, which were mixed on a DiGiCo SD7.

The first Natalia Meets… shows were in 2006, when the Flemish chanteuse teamed up with the Pointer Sisters for 10 concerts, attracting 130,000 people. Two years later, six shows with En Vogue featuring Shaggy were another huge hit and the latest instalment proved equally popular. The six gigs were held at Antwerp’s Sportpaleis, a venue so popular that in recent years it has outsold New York’s Madison Square Garden.

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Trak Takes DiGiCo And Rises With Stagemaker

The Trak Centre has long been one of Melbourne’s most prestigious inner city buildings. Located in the heart of bustling Toorak, the Trak centre has always had a heartbeat as a booming business hub. It was also home to the very successful Silvers nightclub which later became the Toorak Lion Pub and more recently, the Sugar Lounge. A lesser known fact about the Trak Centre was that it used to have one of Australia’s oldest cinemas inside it. The cinema was shut down many, many years ago and remained quietly dormant underneath the Sugar Lounge until very recently. The cinema space has undergone a major transformation and has been launched as the uber sophisticated Trak Live Lounge Bar.

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8th Day Sound Adds 20 SD 192K Racks To Inventory And Lil Wayne Tour

Global audio service provider Eighth Day Sound have built a reputation over the last three decades for providing state-of-the-art, well maintained, and efficiently packaged audio equipment, seasoned crew and unparalleled service. Keeping at the forefront of the technology curve with all its manufacturers is a top priority. To that end, Eighth Day recently added 20 of the new DiGiCo SD racks with 192, 96 or 48KHz sampling rates to its touring inventory. Based around the Stealth Digital Processing ™ FPGA technology delivering the SD range’s acclaimed sonic quality, DiGiCo’s SD Rack is the first I/O rack for any mixing console that offers multiple format sample rate conversion and allows up to an amazing 448 I/O, in any combination at 96kHz, spread across 14 racks on one redundant optic loop.

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