UK - After a successful initial UK tour and run in London's West End, Take That 'tribute' musical Never Forget is currently on a further, far more extensive, tour of UK venues. This is the first theatre production on which sound designer Richard Brooker has used a DiGiCo SD8, which he chose because it immediately addressed a range of the challenges that provincial tours inevitably throw up.

"As a sound designer, I have been quite faithful to established analogue theatre consoles like Cadac," he says. "But, as associate sound designer on Mamma Mia!, I was looking after a DiGiCo D5T and was very impressed by it.

"I also designed a production of Jesus Christ Superstar in Spain last year which used a D5T12. I got on fine with it and was very happy with the results, so when I heard about the SD8, I thought it sounded very interesting. At the same time, I was looking at ways to make the Never Forget tour cost effective, flexible and easy to move."

For Never Forget, Brooker is utilising 54 inputs, via a stage DiGiRack,10 matrix outs, 10 aux outs and a further 16 outs from an Aviom card for band monitoring. The system also uses a local 16 input mini rack and a few of the ins and outs on the desk itself. All audio is via MADI and, with the exception of one Lexicon vocal reverb, all dynamics and effects utilise the SD8's onboard processing.

(Jim Evans)


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