DiGiCo points Niall Horan in right Direction
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Harling and Kent both work from DiGiCo SD10s, running at 48kHz, and sharing stage racks.
“I have always favoured front of house mixing,” says FOH engineer Harling. “I don’t have the technical chops, or strength of character, to do monitors. I’d probably end up crying if I did.”
“It was agreed with production that this was an acceptable price point and weight allowance for freighting control around the world; and the SD10 does absolutely everything we need,” Harling explains. “I have mainly worked with DiGiCo over the last few years, as I have mostly been mixing pop music, and DiGiCo is pretty ubiquitous in this genre.”
Harling is quite hands-on with his mixing, and while he does use Snapshots, very few parameters are in the scope for most channels.
“This gig isn’t very channel intensive,” he confirms. “I think we have about 56 inputs from stage, spread across mono and stereo channels; and, of course, there are some FX returns on top of that. I use a couple of reverbs, and a delay; and I am running Waves externally on a Mac Mini via a DiGiGrid MGB, and I'm using quite a lot of plugins for some different flavours of compression, some dynamic EQ for problem fixing, and a few FX.”
Monitor engineer Kent has been a DiGiCo user since 2010, and has been very satisfied so far with both the quality of product, and the manufacturer's technical support.
“For this tour, due to weight constraints, we are both running SD10s, and they sound great. Also, knowing that I can pick up the phone and get an honest answer from technical support at any time is the icing on the cake, and why I will stick with DiGiCo for the foreseeable future. On the seldom occasions I have had issues with my desk, the support has been fantastic.”
(Jim Evans)
