NASHVILLE, Tennessee - November 2023 - Since he signed with Warner Music Nashville in 2021, Wyoming native Ian Munsick's star has risen rapidly. He's earned more than 100 million global streams and been named one of Spotify's inaugural Hot Country Artists to Watch. A very contemporary country artist-he's been compared to both Chris LeDoux and Post Malone-his mile-high tenor delivers self-penned songs that conjure equal parts epic adventure and down-to-earth wisdom.
This year, his rapid rise is reflected in his tour itinerary, which has taken him from a western honky-tonk bar one night to opening for Morgan Wallen in a stadium the next before headlining his own arena shows. You can also see that narrative written in how his tour sound has evolved. Beginning this year, Munsick's sound team was bolstered by the addition of a dedicated monitor engineer, after they transitioned to a pair of DiGiCo Quantum225 consoles, supplied by Clair Global.
Seth Hewson was Munsick's initial front-of-house engineer when the artist's burgeoning career was still using what Hewson describes as a Clair band-in-a-box' with a 32-input mixer and Shure PSM 1000 in-ears packaged together. Ian and the band mixed their own ears using the app on their iPhones, with no monitor engineer, he recalls. I worked with Clair Global on the Quantum225 spec and we introduced the consoles at rehearsals back in March of this year. I was there when Ian first transitioned to the DiGiCos, which was also the first time he hired a monitor engineer.
That monitor engineer was Graig Clinton, who since July has moved to mixing FOH, with Greg Roberts coming aboard as the newest monitor engineer. There was now a complete mix team, both on Quantum225 desks, just as Munsick's career was ready to shift into overdrive-and it was a big shift.
The difference in moving to DiGiCo was as stark as you'd imagine, says Hewson. We loaded an SD-Rack with 32-bit input and output cards, which only emphasized the effect: the noise floor was ultra-low on the output cards and the dynamic range of the inputs felt sky high compared to the previous pre-amps. I spec'd the Quantum225 desks because I didn't want to lean on outboard or external plug-in servers. The Mustard processing and Spice Rack had so much functionality, as well as character, and they've helped take the show to a whole new level. We also went from 32 inputs on the previous rig to 56 pre-amps on the SD-Rack and 72 inputs on the consoles. We were able to split out track stems, add some triggers for drum noise gates, add some more utility instruments for Ian, and introduce some guest/MC channels in the RF count. It helped make us much more robust, especially on the two arena headline shows that Ian played earlier this year.
In addition, Hewson adds, the Quantum225 was a great desk to introduce a monitor engineer on. The SD-Rack pre-amps are already pretty transparent, but Mustard gave the monitor engineer the option to add flavor or use Nodal Processing as needed, he explains. The band is super-tight and musical, but it was a process getting them to build trust in that new member of the team. DiGiCo gave us the tools to make that change and give the band confidence in their ear mixes being properly handled.
Current FOH engineer and production manager Graig Clinton has equally wonderful things to say about the new console. I've been a DiGiCo guy for ten years, but the Quantum processing really does take it up to another level, he says. I was a Waves user for years and loved it, but with the Quantum, I'm using Mustard and Spice Rack pretty much exclusively now, and it's been an amazing transition.
Clinton-who like Munsick is also comfortable crossing genres, having worked with both Sam Hunt and Lizzo-says the Quantum225's much smaller footprint came with a huge increase in power. As well as the flexibility to go from clubs to arenas and larger venues, which is a big help at this stage of Ian's career, he says. Processing like the optical compressor and the multiband EQ and compression have been fantastic. Also, I started on monitors and loved the 32-bit output cards I used there on the PSM-1000s, and have seen the transition to the 32-bit input cards at FOH. It's just a seamless all-DiGiCo environment now, including for Greg on monitors, and it's been phenomenal. It's a great place to be.
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Related images:
1) DiGiCo_Munsick_1.jpg - FOH engineer Graig Clinton with the tour's house Quantum225 desk
2) DiGiCo_Munsick_2.jpg - Graig Clinton mixing Ian Munsick's FOH sound on a DiGiCo Quantum225
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NASHVILLE, Tennessee - November 2023 - Since he signed with Warner Music Nashville in 2021, Wyoming native Ian Munsick's star has risen rapidly. He's earned more than 100 million global streams and been named one of Spotify's inaugural Hot Country Artists to Watch. A very contemporary country artist-he's been compared to both Chris LeDoux and Post Malone-his mile-high tenor delivers self-penned songs that conjure equal parts epic adventure and down-to-earth wisdom.
