2012:
News & Releases
User stories, installs, product news and more from DiGiCo
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SD11 Does Active Duty Aboard The Navy's USS Stennis Tiger Cruise
The rugged portability of DiGiCo’s SD11 was never utilized to fuller effect than on its latest voyage aboard the United States Navy’s active-duty USS John C. Stennis aircraft carrier from Hawaii to San Diego. In one of its more unusual gigs, Broadcast Support designated the SD11 in tandem with a full dB Technologies PA—to handle all the audio functions...
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DiGiCo SD11 Aids Australian Education
In these financially difficult times, maximising the potential of facilities has become a key issue for the education sector. At the same time as delivering high quality education in line with modern expectations, schools need to ensure that their facilities generate their own revenue. These are the reasons why one Australian primary school has invested in DiGiCo,...
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DiGiCo SD9 Adds Perfect Control To Trinity Theatre Sound
Stage Electrics has chosen a DiGiCo SD9 console to control an all-new audio system, designed for both live performance and digital cinema, at the Trinity Theatre in Tunbridge Wells, UK. Built in the mid 19th century, the Holy Trinity was Tunbridge Wells’ first parish church. After its final religious service in 1972 its Grade 1 listed status ensured...
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Trio Of DiGiCo SD8s Get Rockstar Syndrome In Thailand
Thai pop sensation Palmy recently returned to recording and performing as a solo artist after an absence of five years. Promoting her new album Palmy 5, she played two sold-out shows at Bangkok’s Impact Arena, with three DiGiCo SD8s on mixing duties. With material ranging from the chirpy, up-tempo Ka Ka Ka to piano ballads, with (the heavily ‘60s flavoured)...
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The Black Keys Manoeuvre First Headlining Arena Tour With DiGiCo
The Black Keys, aka Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney, have had a big underground following for over a decade but with the success of 2010’s Grammy awarded Brothers and last year’s wildly successful El Camino, they’re in the midst of their first headlining arena tour across the globe. The tour is also the first time the Black Keys have had the luxury...
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DiGiCo's Training Seminars Reach Russia
As important for digital console manufacturer DiGiCo as the quality of its products is the support and education it provides its customers, with the company running a series of well-attended training seminars both at its UK headquarters and around the globe. The latest location added to its roster is Russia, with its first seminar for the territory held in February...
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Customized SD11 Touring Rig Serves Freelance Engineer
Watching a musician struggling to unload his bulky, oversized PA system in front of the old Playboy Club in New York City many years ago planted a seed for Ricardo Tross. Eager to help, he offered the musician a hand that day, and for many thereafter, in exchange for learning how to operate the system. A decade later, that experience inspired Tross, now a sought-after...
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DiGiCo SD8 Stars At The Friendliest Festival On The Planet
Billed as ‘the friendliest festival on the planet’, Sauti za Busara is the highlight of the annual music calendar in Tanzania. The East African event takes place over five days in February and this year attracted 400 musicians from across the continent. With a dedicated DiGiCo SD8 console at the Front of House position, an eclectic range of music was...
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The Revolution Reunite For American Heart Association Benefit
The year was 1984 and Prince’s soon-to-be-iconic masterpiece, Purple Rain, was released to much fanfare. The seminal album and film featured a slew of hit singles ("When Doves Cry," "Let's Go Crazy," "Purple Rain," "I Would Die 4 U”) that have withstood the test of time for nearly 30 years. They also shone a spotlight...
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DiGiCo SD8s Tops Fun. Tour
NYC-based indie pop band fun. are on an uphill, seemingly unstoppable trajectory with the release of their second recording, Some Nights. The album reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and Digital Songs charts, and the album’s breakout single, “We Are Young” (featuring Janelle Monáe), marked the first time in more than a decade that...
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DiGiCo SD9 Becomes SD911 For Launch Of New Porsche
The illustrious 49-year history of the Porsche 911 reached another milestone this year with the introduction of the 2012 model. Featuring many refinements, but continuing the immediately recognisable 911 profile, one regional European launch for the new car enjoyed the benefit of a DiGiCo SD9 mixing console. Or, as it was for the events, an SD911. Belgian audio...
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Amstel's Friends Sell Out With DiGiCo
From humble beginnings as a café showcase for Dutch acts, in 14 years Vrienden van Amstel Live has grown in size, with the 2012 event encompassing seven sold out nights at Rotterdam’s 10,000 seat Ahoy Arena. Such were the technical demands that it required four DiGiCo SD7 consoles and seven of the latest SD racks to manage the audio, with all equipment...
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DiGiCo SD11i Makes Debut on The X Factor Final
The SD11i is a new, expanded version of DiGiCo’s rackmountable SD11 digital mixing console. It was used for the very first time on the The X Factor Finals’ broadcast production, which went out live to a television audience of upwards of 15 million people. “We’d been approached about using an SD11 for The X Factor Finals,” explains DiGiCo’s...
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DiGiCo SD9 Satisfies Ukrainian Taste At STB
Launched in 1997, STB is one of Ukraine’s most popular television stations. Broadcasting a mixture of original content and Ukrainian versions of popular Western programmes, the station continues to expand. Recently it invested in a DiGiCo SD9. Currently ranked first in the country by audience share, STB needed a digital console that would withstand the rigours...
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Illinois St. Matthew UMC Church Goes Fully Digital
After years of research, St. Matthew United Methodist Church undertook a major renovation of its technology systems in 2009, including making the leap from analog to digital installing a DiGiCo SD8 as its main audio console. Continuing its digital progression, the house of worship recently added an SD9 with D-Rack (connected to the SD8 via DiGiCo’s Little Red...
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DiGiCo SD10 Has Maxi Appeal
DiGiCo’s SD10 has just made its first venture into Brazil, with one being purchased by events company Maxi Audio Luz Imagen, based in Sao Paulo. Used on a variety of events, the company is very happy with its purchase. Maxi Audio technical manager Sandro Monteiro had been impressed by the DiGiCo consoles on show at InfoComm 2009 and, with sound engineers at...
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DiGiCo SD5 Arrives At ProLight+Sound
A decade after the launch of the D5 Live, British audio solutions manufacturer DiGiCo launches its new incarnation, the SD5. As you would expect, the SD5 fits directly into the D5’s shoes, but benefits from the advancements made possible by DiGiCo’s proprietary Stealth Digital Processing™. “We’ve evolved a lot over the past decade, both...
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DiGiCo Launches Online Training On www.DiGiCo.tv
For the past 10 years, DiGiCo has been hosting onsite training at its UK head office, as well as with various distributors and a number of locations around the world. This has worked extremely well, but DiGiCo is keen to ensure that those users and potential users who find it difficult to access this resource are still able to benefit from its content. DiGiCo Online...
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New Software And Firmware Upgrades Released As DiGiCo Celebrate Multiple Anniversaries At PL+S
2012 marks three major milestones in DiGiCo’s history: the anniversary of 40 years since the birth of Soundtracs, the company from which DiGiCo was born; 20 years since it made its first foray into digital consoles; and 10 years since DiGiCo took over the Soundtracs reins. To celebrate the occasion, DiGiCo has developed a series of software and firmware upgrades...
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DiGiCo SD9 Is A Shrew (d) Investment For The RSC
The DiGiCo SD7 console installed at the Royal Shakespeare Company’s refurbished Swan Theatre, Stratford upon Avon, in 2011 has proved such a success that, when the Company needed an additional mixer for its touring shows and West End transfers, another SD series console was their first choice - this time an SD9. “We have a long relationship with DiGiCo...
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KROQ Red Bull Space Showcases DiGiCo Alongside Top Bands
For years, Los Angeles’ iconic rock radio station, KROQ, mused about creating their own intimate, in-studio listening space complete with a stage, studio lighting and amazing sound for their listeners. They cleared out some cubicles and the sales office space-turned-nightclub—dubbed the Red Bull Sound Space—became a reality, rivaling any LA club....
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DiGiCo SD9 Gives Turkish Songwriters A Taste Of The Big Time
Late 2011 saw the annual finals of the Halıcı Computer Aided Composition Contest held at the Babylon venue in Istanbul. Ensuring that the finalists’ live performances sounded their best was a DiGiCo SD9 console. Sponsored by Halıcı, one of Turkey’s leading software companies, the contest has been run for the past 18 years. Open to...
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Lenny Kravitz Tours With Expanded And Mirrored DiGiCo SD7 And SD11 Audio Rigs
After a nearly five year hiatus—and eight gold and platinum albums of retro soul and rock ’n’ roll—Lenny Kravitz takes to the global highway with an 8-piece backing band in support of his latest and ninth studio album, Black and White America. Taking musical cues from the past while looking forward in true Kravitz style, he pulls together...
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Irish Artist Daniel ODonnell Croons The Classics In Branson Venue With DiGiCo
Award-winning international Irish singing sensation Daniel O'Donnell has become an annual fan favorite at the 2,700-seat Tri-Lakes Center theatre in Branson, Missouri, bringing Irish and American classics to the Midwest vacation destination on Daniel’s 15-20 sell-out shows a year. The band’s engineer Hughie Boyle, who started on monitors several years...
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DiGiCo Debuts As Live Sound Console Provider At 54th Annual Grammy Awards
CBS's telecast of the 54th GRAMMY® Awards this past February was the second-highest-rated in GRAMMY history with approximately 41 million viewers. The three-and-a-half hour show offered memorable and milestone moments—from stellar performances to stunning productions. Behind the scenes on music's biggest night, however, there was a changing of the...
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Danish Singer Is Mads For DiGiCo
With his first major label release Behold, Danish singer-songwriter Mads Langer is now breaking through as an international artist. Bringing his guitar-based ballads to a wider audience, DiGiCo SD11 consoles and Neumann digital microphones were a feature of Langer’s end-of-year European tour. Sound company for the tour was Victory Tour Production, a long-term...
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Wigwam Buys British And Goes The Extra Mylo With Coldplay
With their new album Mylo Xyloto having already hit the number one spot in 19 countries, Coldplay are promoting it with live dates throughout the rest of 2011 and into 2012. Hire company Wigwam Acoustics is providing a little audio Paradise via a DiGiCo SD7 mixing system and three XTA DP548 processors, which have been specified as part of the sound system. Unlike...
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Brigham Young University Idaho Goes Divinely Digital With Dual DiGiCo SD7 Systems
Brigham Young University-Idaho has a new facility, christened the BYU-Idaho Center. The 435,000-square-foot building contains a 15,000-seat auditorium and a multi-purpose area large enough for 10 full basketball courts. In addition to recreational activities, the gym will serve as a place for large social gatherings. The auditorium will be used for large-scale...
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Potawatomi Bingo Casino's Bigg Payoff With DiGiCo Upgrade
Earlier this year, the staff of Milwaukee’s Northern Lights Theater at Potawatomi Bingo Casino decided to embark on a console upgrade in its intimate, 500-seat theater. Production manager Jamie Cobb called upon Kerry Miller and the integration team at Clearwing Productions to help. Wanting to upgrade the sound and make the move to digital, the group collaborated...
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DiGiCo SD9 Lures Soundlink Away From Analogue
Since its launch, the compact DiGiCo SD9 has made a significant impact on audio rental and sound reinforcement companies who need a digital console for medium-sized productions. An example is Soundlink, a Dutch audio company whose SD9 has been in constant use since it was purchased a year and a half ago. Owned by Bas Jansen, Floris Roelfzema and Hugo van Meijeren,...
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DiGiCo Solutions' Newly Launched UB Madi Named 'Best of Show' By Pro Sound News And PAR Magazine Editors At Namm 2012
The NAMM Show 2012 buzz for DiGiCo Solutions’ newest breakthrough interface, UB MADI, was pervasive. So much so, that the editorial staffs of Pro Sound News and Pro Audio Review magazines chose UB MADI amongst 15 new and noteworthy products for its ProSoundNetwork “Best of Show” Awards for the 2012 NAMM Show in Anaheim, California. During each...
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DiGiCo SD10 Scores 2012 ProSoundWeb & Live Sound Intl Readers' Choice Award
THE NAMM SHOW, Anaheim, CA (January 19, 2012) The results are in and DiGiCo has claimed yet another Pro Sound Web/Live Sound Reader’s Choice Award for New Console Mixer Digital Large Format! This year, DiGiCo’s new SD10 took home the honors (in a tie shared with APB DynaSonics ProDesk-8), whereas the SD8 was the console of choice for the previous two...
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DiGiGo Sets The Standard At The Jazz Music Festival Shanghai
Now in its seventh year Jazz Music Festival Shanghai is one of the largest jazz festivals in Asia and is the biggest outdoor music event in China’s largest city. Attracting artists from across the world, this year the festival featured five stages, with a DiGiCo SD8 and SD8-24 setting the gold standard on one. The festival’s audio equipment was provided...
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At Last, Simple MADI Connectivity Thanks To DiGiCo's UB MADI
Until today, MADI connectivity on your desktop or laptop required a format such as PCI or ExpressCard. This involves an inconvenient and time consuming set up operation on a desktop, whilst it is increasingly difficult to find a laptop with the necessary slot. DiGiCo Solutions’ UB MADI eliminates this frustration. Being launched at the 2012 NAMM show in Anaheim,...
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Blondie Takes To The Road With A Little Help From Big House Sound And DiGiCo
“Deborah Harry, who’s languished as a pop culture and fashion icon since she blasted onto the scene in the mid-70s, seems to be omnipresent of late gracing the pages of magazines from Harper’s Bazaar to the cover of Rolling Stone. But perhaps her greatest lasting legacy is of the musical variety - with her band Blondie - still going strong nearly...
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DiGiCo SD7 Brings The Wow Factor To The Matrix Live
The Matrix Live, staged at London’s Royal Albert Hall on 23rd October, was the latest in the venue’s own promoted series of classic film screenings. In what was a complex audio production, the film’s orchestral soundtrack was replaced by a live performance from the NDR Pops orchestra, with a DiGiCo SD7 digital mixing console employed to bring both...
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Mamma Mia! DiGiCo SD8 Breaks New Ground With Chinese Production
Smash hit musical MAMMA MIA! has recently broken new ground as the first Western musical to be performed in Mandarin with a Chinese cast. After runs in Shanghai and Beijing, the show is currently playing in Guangzhou, with a DiGiCo SD8 at the helm. Although Western musicals have previously toured China, this is the first time that one has been performed by a local...
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