Currently performing around Asia before heading to Turkey in early July, Thee Sacred Souls is enlisting the help of DiGiCo consoles \u2013 a Quantum326 provided by the Escondido, California office of Sound Image, a Clair Global brand, with a Quantum338 and other Quantum desks being used to fill in for fly dates along the way, as well as an SD-Rack stagebox.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn our riders, DiGiCo is always the first; for our run in May, 90% of it will be DiGiCo,\u201d said Josh Benton, Thee Sacred Souls\u2019 FOH engineer for the last five years. While he\u2019s used both the Quantum326 and Quantum338 on Thee Sacred Souls shows, depending upon availability, Benton says the Quantum326\u2019s specifications and flexibility make it his favourite road companion. \u201cEither desk is good with me but, when we get on tour, I prefer the Q326 just because it\u2019s more compact. But we both appreciate the flexibility of the consoles. It goes without saying that they sound great, and their flexibility to let users move anything anywhere means we can each have our own workflows exactly as we want them, in any situation. I\u2019m also a huge fan of the ability to swap out DMI cards \u2013 if we want to use different protocols on the back of the desk, it\u2019s just swap it out and off you go. And honestly, that\u2019s been a huge asset as of late as we started using the Dante protocol for some of that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Benton is a fan of Quantum\u2019s Mustard processing, particularly its optical and other compressors, as well as some of the Spice Rack EQ features. But it\u2019s the console\u2019s ability to accommodate his workflow and the band\u2019s onstage configuration that he believes makes the Quantum326 such as great fit. \u201cOur input list isn\u2019t terribly big, no more than 40; they\u2019re not playing with tracks,\u201d he added. \u201cIf you don\u2019t see it onstage, it\u2019s not happening. So the processing power on the Quantum far exceeds anything I will ever use. I could have two bands onstage, double our input count and I\u2019d still have more than enough processing. That really lets me concentrate on the mix and on the evolving show onstage, which can be pretty complex: as a band, it\u2019s the three guys, but as a live act, we are at minimum an 11-piece band, and sometimes a 15-piece band if we have a string quartet with us. And with a single SD-Rack, we\u2019re actually able to cover our needs and any of the support artists that tour with us, which is something we\u2019re planning on doing for the summer run, all within one infrastructure. It makes for a very streamlined workflow.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Currently performing around Asia before heading to Turkey in early July, Thee Sacred Souls is enlisting the help…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,80],"class_list":["post-463009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}