DiGiCo Takes Top Honors At 55th GRAMMY & 85th Academy Awards Posted: February 2013 | For Immediate Release
UK manufacturer DiGiCo held the coveted position as console provider for the second year in a row at the annual GRAMMY Awards this year. The 55th installment of Music's Biggest Night was overall a bigger show musically, with 20 acts on the schedule, up from 2012's 18. As the show's live performances have expanded, so has its audio footprint. With audio production facilitated by ATK AudioTek (and consoles provided by Hi-Tech Audio), the digital desk count handing both music and production included five DiGiCo SD Series desks: four SD7s (an upgrade from last year's SD10s) and the addition of an SD5, as well as 11 SD Racks (up from last year's six).
At the MusiCares event the Friday night preceding the GRAMMYs, engineer George Squires manned a DiGiCo SD7 with four DigiRacks at monitors to provide 170 inputs to 28 stereo ear mixes and 30 wedge mixes. Delicate Productions handled the audio production. On the 85th installation of the prestigious Academy Awards, ATK provided audio production with a Peterson-designed system comprised of three SD Racks, an SD5 at FOH helmed by Pat Baltzel and an SD10 run by Mike Parker. Hi-Tech Audio provided console support for all these events.
The GRAMMY and Oscar systems were both designed by ATK's FOH Tech Jeff Peterson. On the GRAMMY event, Peterson also served as the system tech with assistance from Andrew Fletch Fletcher. The GRAMMY audio team again included consultant Ron Reaves mixing all of the live performance elements at FOH on an SD7, and ATK's VP of Special Events Mikael Stewart on an SD5 managing all the nonmusical production assets. At stage right (A) and left (B), respectively, Tom Pesa and Mike Parker facilitated artist monitor mixes using a pair of SD7s (with an additional guest rig used for sets by Justin Timberlake and Bruno Mars).
Overall, we have a massive total of 276 mic preamps and 176 outputs distributed between five consoles and 11 DiGiCo SD Racks, explains Peterson. Those four consoles, plus eight SD Racks, are on one optical loop, each connected to one of ATK's 56-pair splitters. The guest monitor SD7 console is on its own optical loop, with three more SD racks. Also new is JBL's newest line array, the Pro VTX V25 3-way system (powered by Crown ITech 1200 HD amps).
In addition, we have more than 50 wireless microphones this year, he adds, which take up an entire splitter. We have almost an entire splitter dedicated to what we call high-level items, which are things like playback from the truck, Pro Tools lines, all of the production elements, and the podium mics (that are not for use with a band) are down the fourth splitter. The first two splitters are dedicated just for band inputs, one for stage right and one for stage left. This year we're using AES outputs directly from SD racks in three locations to drive the amplifiers to the PA system. So it's a whole digital system path again. What we eliminated was a second optical loop just to do the amplifiers. So everything is on one optical loop, with the SD Racks and the consoles.
The transformer splits themselves are where the copper stops, Peterson explains, and are the dividing line between the live PA side with the DiGiCo SD racks and the trucks. From the ATK splitters, the signals go on to all of the different head amps: one to the two recording M3/Music Mix Mobile trucks, one to the main Denali broadcast truck, and one to the head amps for the DiGiCo consoles. From there, it's all various flavors of fiber, whether it's Optocore to us or MADI to the M3 truck, or Hydra to the Denali. Once it leaves the transformer split, it's pre-amped and converted to digital from there on. So the inputs come from the stage and then they are split up and sent to multiple destinations. The broadcast truck gets all of the raw microphones the same way we do. They do their mix, package it together with the broadcast items, the show elements and the production elements and send it out for broadcast. They also generate a lot of signals that we take out here: all of the videotaped packages, all of the music play-ons and play-offs, any band's Pro Tools backing tracksall of those are generated and routed from the truck through another splitter system to the rest of our consoles.
The SD system worked flawlessly, sums up FOH production mixer Mikael Stewart. The flexibility of the SD5 and SD7 are exactly what is needed for a show like the GRAMMY Awards.
I have continued my love affair with the DiGiCo console, adds Ron Reaves, having done quite a few gigs this last year on both the SD10 and the SD7. We started using these last year, and decided that this is all we wanted to use moving forward. This year, both monitor mixers switched from SD10s to SD7s, and that worked out great. The SD7 continues to be the best tool for my particular job at the GRAMMYs, and helped contribute to another great-sounding show out at FOH. Ive particularly enjoyed the new dynamics package, and feel that between the new de-essers, and the dynamic EQ (a gift from the sound gods), that theres no vocal problem' that cant be tamed with this console. Ive enjoyed some of the best vocal sounds Ive ever gotten, too, thanks to this console.
This year, there was a bit of extra pressure put on us at FOH to get mixes together faster in soundcheck, Ron continues. The demand has grown to have the first pass of a song be as close to the full band sound as possible and the console has helped me to accomplish this with the use of presets. I use a lot of presets and pre-dial pretty much everything so I'm never starting from scratch when we start rehearsing a band. That's been a very helpful tool to have. The addition of the pres
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DiGiCo Takes Top Honors At 55th GRAMMY & 85th Academy Awards Posted: February 2013 | For Immediate Release 
