"I had heard a lot about the great sound of DiGiCo consoles, so I decided to try them out," says Raphael Rupprecht, Concept Solutions technical director. "I tried the D1 and was amazed at the quality of the preamps, the EQs and the dynamics. Even my reference CDs sounded better over the PA when routed via the D1 - I could hear details I had never heard before."
The next DiGiCo console he tried was the SD8, and this immediately became the 'gold standard' for Concept Solutions.
"I contacted local distributor TON Eichinger and got an SD8 for evaluation. We tested the desk in all kinds of situations and the performance convinced us to become the first rental-company in Austria to offer the SD8. It turned out to be the best decision we could have made." Rupprecht continues.
"What impressed us even more was the Overdrive upgrade we received after purchase, adding dynamic EQs, multiband compressors, 24 graphic EQs, more FX and a bigger Matrix. You really won't find anything similar at the price."
Just two months after purchasing the SD8, the company had already used it on 20 events with 10 different freelance engineers.
(Jim Evans)
