Daniel Green, who’s been at FOH for Coldplay for the last four years, feels it can hardly be called work. "The band is a pleasure to work with, and despite their massive success over the last couple of years, they’re still just a bunch of totally normal guys who are passionate about their music." However, Coldplay’s success has meant playing bigger and bigger venues and working with more and more sophisticated equipment, like for example, the XL4. During discussions with Tourtech, when they proposed an XL4, Daniel admits that he jumped at the chance.
David ‘Mags’ Hills, FOH engineer for Feeder, found himself behind Midas’s latest innovation, the new Legend 3000 multi-purpose console for the first time. "I was really looking forward to using it. In this instance I’m just running it as a traditional FOH desk, although now that I’m up to speed with it, I can appreciate the advantages it can offer in dual purpose applications." After a brief familiarization of the unique work surface, Mags found Legend easy to use. "It’s laid out more like an XL4 than the Heritage 2000 I usually use, but that doesn’t make it any more difficult, just slightly different. Legend is a great sounding desk and the EQ, in particular, is extremely powerful. Feeder has a lot of festivals coming up over the summer season, and I’ll be specifying Midas for all of those," he confirmed.
Adlib Audio’s Andy Dockerty made use of the baby of the Midas range for Ian McCulloch in the form of the Venice 320. Andy is already very familiar with Midas consoles as he has recently invested in a Heritage 3000 for his own company. "I loved the Venice," said Andy. "It sounded massive, but it was so small I tried to smuggle it out under my coat!"
(Ruth Rossington)
