In recent years, the necessary legions of equipment movers known as roadies have evolved to become true technical wizards as live music has morphed into ever more advanced production events. For better or for worse though, cinematic representations of them tend to fall short of reality, and that seems to be the consensus of critics and real roadies of Showtime’s comedy-drama Roadies, which debuted … [Read more...]
Smashing Pumpkins Bring Big Sound To Small Venues With DiGiCo SD8
When 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” … [Read more...]
DiGiCo SD8 Adds Colombia To Its Ever-Growing Itinerary
When Colombian rental company C Villa worked with a DiGiCo SD8 on a tour by Grammy-winning singer Carlos Vives, so impressed were the staff by its performance that it wasn’t long before the company purchased one for its own inventory, adding another country to the console’s world itinerary… Vives’ Front of House engineer Rob ‘Cubby’ Colby is a keen DiGiCo user and C Villa proprietor Mauricio … [Read more...]
DiGiCo SD9 brings a Red Revolution to ProLight+Sound 2010
For most companies, going ‘into the red’ would be a bad thing. But for DiGiCo the exact opposite is true, because the company’s new mixing system - the SD9 - features the coolest shade of crimson. Launched at ProLight+Sound 2010, the SD9 is set to redefine what the audio industry expects from a compact digital console. Where the SD8 is DiGiCo’s ‘gold standard’, the SD9 is the company’s ‘red … [Read more...]
Three’s Company For DiGiCo SD8 At ISE
February’s Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) trade show saw yet more success for the DiGiCo SD8 mixing console, with three more added to the inventories of Dutch rental companies. Purple Group, one of the country’s leading rental facilities, already owned three SD8s and increased that number to no less than five at ISE. The company is a long-term DiGiCo user and, when asked to supply equipment … [Read more...]
