Supplied by Danish audio company DPA SoundCo, which has a wide range of DiGiCo consoles in its inventory (purchased from DiGiCo's Danish distributor Soundware), the Volbeat touring rig features an SD7 at the Front of House position and a D5 on monitors.
"I have been using the D1 and D5 for the last couple of years, but the size of this tour gave me the opportunity to work with the SD7 and it has been a very pleasing experience," says FOH engineer Mads Mikkelsen. "I love using the dynamic EQ and three-band compressors. I use them on almost all my outputs and on many of the input channels. For example the guitars use very different sounds from one song to another. I need them to work hard when they play punk guitar and not so hard on the heavier songs."
Meanwhile, monitor engineer Kristoffer Hinrichsen is using a D5 console. The band's stage set up features multiple microphones, so lead vocalist / guitarist Michael Poulsen can sing from a range of positions. While the rest of the band use Sennheiser IEMs, Poulsen prefers wedges, so 22 are distributed around eight positions onstage. Along with side-fills, this makes the monitor rig quite complex.
(Jim Evans)
