Madigan bought his own D1 through his company, EQ Audio, and tours it with the band. "The Eels is definitely the most pressure monitor gig I have ever had," he said. On the current show, Madigan has to deal with around 30 open sources, mostly acoustic, making feedback a real possibility. "With the analogue consoles, all the channels were open all the time because it was so much work to organise mute groups on the different desks. Now, with the DiGiCo, snapshots are used for different songs. What isn't being used gets shutdown, and it makes the whole stage a lot more stable," he said.
FOH engineer, Josh Paul is also a recent DiGiCo convert, after using and being a fan of analogue consoles his entire career. "At the beginning of this year we came over to the UK and things went really well. In the middle of the run, it came up that we were going to do a multitrack board feed to a hard drive recorder. The problem is, I don't have time to run 32 direct inputs to a hard drive recorder and then mess with it all day, so we came up with the idea to use a DiGiCo desk," Paul explained.
(Jim Evans)
