Carlos is the winner of nine Grammy Awards - the most for a single project - for Supernatural, which revitalized his career, leading to the first Las Vegas Hard Rock residency and his ongoing HoB appearances each winter.
Montgomery has mixed Santana's monitors for 16 years. "I was an analogue guy for a long time, but, it got to where I'd actually outgrown most of the analogue consoles on the market," he explains. "I was using a pair of competitor consoles to get 26 mixes, and I needed more space. When we went to Japan, the model I'd been using wasn't available, so we switched to another competitor, which I've used as my primary console for Santana ever since.
"That is, until the SSL Live came out. I'm an old school guy and I like that SSL has an additional focus channel screen, which gives me all of the control that I need, alongside the main screen. This setup lets me have multiple modes of accessibility to my work surface, which is key."
(Jim Evans)
