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Thursday, February 07, 2013
PSW Staff 02/07/13 01:12 PM,The creative forces of Blue Man Group (BMG) have been working for two years to bring an all-new production to the Monte Carlo Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. The show, co–created with world–renowned 3-D designer Michael Curry, adds a few new elements to the mix: instruments (including Percussipede, a musical centipede of percussion instruments), a six-piece band and a Showbot robot character. One of the casino’s interior theaters was gutted for BMG’s new Vegas home and its audio team… View this story
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Thursday, February 16, 2012
PSW Staff 02/16/12 08:12 AM,UK-based digital console manufacturer, DiGiCo, was the live music console of choice at the 54th Annual GRAMMY Awards ceremony in Los Angeles, as specified by longtime show production partner ATK AudioTek. The 3-1/2 hour music celebration and ceremony garnered the second highest ratings of any GRAMMY airing with approximately 41 million viewers. A combination of five of DiGiCo’s newer SD10 consoles along with one of its larger format SD7s handled FOH and monitor duties—for a total of 400+ I/O’s and… View this story
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Monday, June 28, 2010
PSW Staff 06/28/10 07:31 AM, 0 CommentsAt the outset of the recent tour by the band Scouting For Girls, Paul Timmins of audio rental company Capital Sound presented Andy Williamson, the band’s house engineer, with the opportunity to use a DiGiCo SD7 digital console. An early adopter of digital technology, Williamson has been, up until now, a regular user of consoles by other manufacturers. “As soon as digital came out I jumped on it,” he says. “I love analog, but the digital footprint is fantastic. However,… View this story
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Friday, February 26, 2010
PSW Staff 02/26/10 11:48 AM, 0 CommentsAs one of the top-grossing tours in 2009, the Trans-Siberian Orchestra fuse elements of progressive rock, symphonic heavy metal, and classical music into a unique blend, and are known for their dazzling live performances, complete with full light show and synchronized pyrotechnics. In 2000, TSO created two separate touring groups - TSO East and TSO West - to allow the band to cover more ground, and they’ve maintained that format ever since. Last year, as the band was maxing out… View this story
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Thursday, December 17, 2009
PSW Staff 12/17/09 10:43 AM, 0 CommentsItalian pop star and Sony BMG recording artist Eros Ramazzotti recently embarked on the first European leg of his ”Ali e Radici” (Wings and Roots) world tour, an impressive 10-truck production trekking around 23 European nations’ indoor arenas before South American dates, a series of European open-air summer shows, then off to the U.S. and Australia. Audio and lighting is being supplied by top Italian rental firm Agorà, and included three of the L’Aquila-based company’s large stock of DiGiCo consoles:… View this story
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Tuesday, November 03, 2009
PSW Staff 11/03/09 02:33 PM, 3 CommentsAfter a five-year hiatus, the long-running quartet Phish reformed earlier this year, culminating in a new release (“Joy”) and subsequent 27-date national tour. During the first leg of the tour, FOH engineer, Garry Brown made the decision to switch mid-stream to a DiGiCo SD7. After an exhaustive A/B comparison of his current console and the DiGiCo SD7, he decided to move to the SD7. Aside from a brief outing with the band Third Day in 2004 on a DiGiCo D5,… View this story
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Friday, October 23, 2009
PSW Staff 10/23/09 09:42 AM, 0 CommentsA DiGiCo SD7 mixing console was recently added by S-Service Pro, a high-profile rental company in Moscow, Russia. Established over a decade ago, S-Service Pro provides production services to many of Moscow’s highest profile live events, including outdoor festivals, arena and theatre productions, fashion shows, corporate events, exhibitions, trade shows and parties. The SD7 was handed over by DiGiCo’s Russian distributor, Aris Pro, at the beginning of August and was immediately put to work by S-Service on a festival headlined… View this story
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
PSW Staff 10/20/09 06:46 AM, 0 CommentsThe new DiGiCo EX-007 is designed to substantially increase the number of available faders and the number of channels controllable at any one time on an DiGiCo SD7 digital console - and from a distance of up to 100 metres (330-plus feet) via a cost-effective CAT5 cable connection. It is possible to augment an SD7 with two EX-007s, each acting as control panel to provide 24 faders and two additional touch screens, as well as metering and other standard functions,… View this story
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Thursday, August 20, 2009
PSW Staff 08/20/09 09:39 AM, 0 CommentsLeading European rental company SSE Audio Group has invested in a DiGiCo SD7 to add to its extensive stock of high-end sound equipment. Managing Director John Penn, explains the decision: “Since we invested in DiGiCo D5s in 2004, they have been consistently in demand and very reliable. The low cost of ownership, coupled with these factors, has made the consoles produce a great return on what we initially perceived as a high investment cost. “We have kept an eye on… View this story
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Saturday, June 27, 2009
PSW Staff 06/27/09 06:46 AM, 0 CommentsAt 2009 InfoComm in Orlando, DiGiCo showcased the much-anticipated MACH2 Software Suite for the SD7 digital console — now available onboard all new SD7 consoles and as a free upgrade to all existing SD7 owners. The MACH2 Software Suite unlocks more power from the Super FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Array) in DiGiCo’s Stealth Processing engine. MACH2 brings a significant number enhancements: —DiGi-TuBe (the world’s first Super FPGA preamp tube emulation, with full drive and bias control, available on all 256… View this story
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