Long-term Crosby, Stills & Nash FOH engineer Kevin Madigan has been using digital mixing for many years and has recently added a DiGiGrid MGB to his set-up for the band’s current world tour.
‘I’ve worked with DiGiCo consoles for many years,’ Madigan Kevin, ‘First with a D5Live and now with the flagship SD7. I have an SD-Rack on stage that’s running at 96k that is pretty much at capacity and I’m using optics on a redundant loop.’
The DiGiGrid MGB is a compact, portable interface allowing any coaxial Madi-enabled device to be connected to Waves’ SoundGrid networking and processing platform. Adding it to Madigan’s console enables recording, processing and playback of up to 128 audio channels, and also access to Waves and third-party plug-ins.
‘Recording the shows is important for the band members,’ he explains. ‘With the DiGiGrid MGB we’re able to record 64 channels over the Madi stream instead of the previous 56. And we’re now doing it at the higher resolution of 96k, rather than 48k.
‘We have all the channels from the stage rack, all the band vocals and instruments, and various other things added into the Madi stream including a LR reference mix for each show, audience mics at FOH and that pretty much fills up our capacity for the 64 channels.
‘Everything about the DiGiGrid MBG just works,' he adds. 'It makes recording a very simple process – and that is a very good thing.’
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