"I've been using DiGiCo consoles for a number of years," says Waring. "I started out teching with a D5 when I was looking after Dave Guerin, monitor engineer for Morrissey. Then I inherited the monitor position and looked after Morrissey for a couple of years on the D5, later upgrading to an SD7.
"I've been working with The Cranberries for a couple of months now and I'd inherited a console from another manufacturer that wasn't my first choice. I changed to the SD8 and at its first soundcheck, after just one song, the band commented how different it sounded: that it was a lot crisper, a lot clearer and they knew straight away that something had changed."
The band is mainly on in ears, with side-fills as back up, although drummer Fergal Lawler is not a fan of in ears, so Waring gives him wedges instead.
"This set up means that the SD8's graphic EQs are ideal," he says. "I have two graphic EQs on my side-fills and I've set up a macro to punch the second one in. Delores [O'Riordan], our singer, has a habit of running right into the side-fill when she's dancing, so I've got a button on the macro section straight to the second side-fill GEQ for whenever she's there. I just tap it in and it takes all of those nasty features right out. Perfect."
(Jim Evans)
