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.
“We are up in the mountains, up with the cows and up in the sky,” says Claude. “But for me it is so important that the Festival remains leading edge, that we adopt new technologies that bring improvements to the audience’s experience.
“The introduction of FPGA design and the benefits for the engineers are quite impressive. DiGiCo are frontrunners in this change in audio processing and it is a great result for the Festival that DiGiCo has chosen to become part of the sponsorship programme.”
DiGiCo had already won half the battle with Patrick Vogelsang, head of audio for the Festival, before he’d even experienced its consoles firsthand.
“It’s refreshing to me that the company is so in tune with the industry and the engineers’ needs,” he says. “When we saw the SD7 and SD8 with the FPGA design, it was clear that for once we had a platform that would exceed our requirements at the Festival.
“We were up and mixing on the demo console in 15 minutes – and for a festival the shortest learning curve is crucial. We then asked a lot of questions as to how flexible the system could be and both consoles remove a lot of the work we had to put in place in the past.”
“I’m excited about the Festival this year as we have an amazing line up and I’m looking forward to experiencing the DiGiCo difference over the Festival,” Claude concludes. “I’d like to thank the Festival audio team and DiGiCo for making it happen.”
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