Finland - Although a quartet of classically-trained cellists playing heavy metal seems a most unlikely phenomenon to take the musical world by storm, since 1993 Finnish band Apocalyptica has been gaining an ever-growing fan base by doing precisely that.

With a new album 'Worlds Collide' just released, the band has now set off on a major, two year world tour, with a DiGiCo D5 console at front of house and a D1 at monitors.

The band's FoH engineer Michael Bauer has been a DiGiCo user since 2003 when, with no real training, he did his first show on a DiGiCo console with the Leningrad Cowboys.

"The show was in Norway and, after a quick introduction by the sound guy, I started working with the console. Within half an hour I felt comfortable, which was surprising as it was the first time I had used a digital desk and I was feeling a bit nervous!" says Bauer. "For me, the console's analogue-style work surface really helped that."

Bauer is also the regular FoH engineer for German industrial metallers Rammstein and it was with this band that he became a regular DiGiCo user.

The Apocalyptica tour is playing a range of club and theatre-sized venues, ranging from 700 to 5000 capacity, using an L-Acoustics dV-DOSC PA with Dolby Lake processing for the initial, central European, leg of the tour.

"For the rest of the tour we will have local PAs, therefore the ability to store mix and EQ settings on the DiGiCo consoles is a really helpful tool," adds Bauer.

(Jim Evans)


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