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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 At 54th Annual Grammy Awards
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 long time 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...
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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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Road Productions Makes Further DiGiCo Investment
Owned by Sander Krouwel, Road Productions is based in central Holland and operates in the corporate event, theatre, one-off events, and concert touring markets. The company is a loyal DiGiCo user, being the first rental company in Holland to purchase a dual D1 Live setup back in 2004. It is now adding to its console inventory with the purchase of a DiGiCo SD8 and...
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DiGiCo SD9 Is Gloria Gaynor's Turkish Delight
This summer saw Istanbul’s Cemil Topuzlu Harbiye Open Air Theater stage its annual July Summer Concert Series, a three-week festival of music which culminated in a performance by disco diva and Grammy award winner Gloria Gaynor, accompanied by the ENBE Orchestra. Ensuring that the climax to the festival would live long in the memory of Turkish music fans was...
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ZZ Tops 1st Annual La Grange Fest Pairs Blues Boogie Kings With Southern Rockers Lynyrd Skynyrd
ZZ Top pulled off their very first La Grange Fest in late October, pairing the timeless Tejas boogie kings with Southern rockers Lynyrd Skynyrd and country singer Jamey Johnson. Set just outside Austin in Bee Cave, the fest - and subsequent live broadcast on Sirius XM radio - was accomplished using DiGiCo’s SD8 at the hands of the band’s engineer, Jamie...
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Canadian Indie Music Festival Rifflandia Gets Amped With DiGiCo
Canada’s Rifflandia Festival has been called Victoria’s version of SXSW, featuring some of the best and brightest Canadian and international indie artists. This year’s stellar lineup included 4 days of 110 artists on 9 stages and showcased bands from City and Colour and Cold War Kids to De La Soul and Blackalicious. Doug Lyngard of Victoria’s...
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DiGiCo Heads To BVE London 2012 With Dedicated Broadcast Series
British digital console manufacturer DiGiCo makes its first appearance at BVE London on Stand C2 at London’s Earls Court from 14-16 February 2012, where it will show its new broadcast specific SD7B, SD10B and SD11B. DiGiCo’s acclaimed SD Series is the company’s latest generation of consoles. It is based on the power of FPGA technology and Stealth...
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Complete DiGiCo SD Range To Appear At ISE 2012
UK digital mixing console manufacturer DiGiCo once again returns to ISE alongside the brand’s Dutch distributor TM Audio, with its complete range of consoles that addresses every part of the installation market, from the largest multi-purpose complex, to the smallest theatre. The SD7, which will be joined on Stand I H90 by the SD10, SD8, SD9 and the smallest...
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Investing And Expanding DiGiCo
DiGiCo, an independent UK based console manufacturer, secures secondary investment from ISIS Equity Partners almost five years since the company successfully expanded with the backing of Matrix Equity Partners. 2012 marks a significant anniversary for DiGiCo, as it celebrates 10 years since the arrival of its ground breaking D5 Live. Over that time, the company...
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Philadelphias Annenberg PAC Celebrates 40th Anniversary With Complete Audio Overhaul
This year, the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, at the University of Pennsylvania celebrates its 40th anniversary. As one of the nation’s preeminent urban performing arts centers on a major university campus, it has a very rich history in the performing arts, presenting world-renowned and emerging artists and companies in its four-decade history. Leading...
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DiGiCo Holds The Torch For Welsh Theatre
DiGiCo Yn Dal y Dorch i'r Theatr Gymraeg Wales is globally renowned for its choirs, but the country also enjoys a wide variety of other live entertainment. That variety is continually growing and audio systems in smaller venues now have a desire to match the quality and flexibility to those of their bigger brethren. In two recent cases, the DiGiCo SD9 has been...
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Audio Logic And DiGiCo Bring The Funk 2 The FDeluxe Family Reunion
To say that September was a busy month for Audio Logic Systems (ALS) would be considered an understatement. Not only did the A/V integrators celebrate a 20th anniversary milestone with a mega bash replete with music, food and drinks at their Minneapolis headquarters, but they also took on the production for a major concert event at the historic Loring Theater - in...
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DiGiCo Rides The Paraiso Express With Alejandro Sanz
Spanish superstar Alejandro Sanz has spent 20 months touring in support of his hugely successful, Grammy-winning eighth album Paraiso Express. Taking in 22 countries and over a hundred shows, Front of House engineer Fernando Diaz relied on two DiGiCo SD7s to mix this extensive tour. Travelling to countries as varied as the USA, Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Guatemala, Honduras...
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DiGiCo SD10 Swings With McCune Audio At 54th Annual Monterey Jazz Fest
McCune Audio / Video / Lighting has been handling the audio services for the acclaimed Monterey Jazz Fest since the 1960’s. In business since 1932, this full service technical event production company has done its share of myriad events in its nearly 80-year history. They purchased their first DiGiCo, an SD10, and the console made its debut at the 54th...
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