TPi: Gary Barlow’s 2025 Songbook tour visited a range of venue sizes and styles across the UK and Ireland, so, for engineers, having a constant and reliable mixing console to work from is a necessity. Skan PA, a Clair Global company, supplied two DiGiCo Quantum 7s, allowing engineers to share stage racks, saving space on the truck and delivering peace of mind.
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After learning and seeing the DiGiCo console in Zach’s class for the first time the other day, I can agree, I do really really like how that console looks. Just the sleekness and organization it has, and all the functions it has, while not overloading you with information like what Yamaha does on some of it’s console, or it being mostly analog with a little touch screen at the top like the QU24 series by Allen and Heath, I do have to agree that DiGiCo does an outstanding job with their console. They give you power over everything while not looking dumb, has all the functions that you need, yet none are considered “useless” or “annoying.” All DiGiCo consoles are just really really well thought out and developed extremely well. Of course they have their quirks, but it’s still a very nice and clean console to use, and I can very well understand why the engineers on the tour love it so much, even with me just learning about it over a class.
I understand enough about sound to be able to effectively communicate with sound designers and engineers, but not enough to truly understand all of the ins and outs of it. As far as consoles go DiGiCo is one that I’ve heard of frequently and that was used in a lot of productions that I worked on. It was actually one of my designer’s go to consoles especially for events that could be moved from venue to venue and particularly outdoor events. Years ago, I asked him why DiGiCo and his answer was almost word for word the same as those of the team from Gary Barlow’s tour. We appreciated that it was a smaller console that he was working with as it allowed Lights, Sound, and Stage Management to be all under the same tent while we were doing outdoor Shakespeare. When we ran into issues he was able to solve them incredibly fast usually from the console except for the few things that had to deal with the microphones on the actors bodies.
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