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DIGICO SEAMLESSLY INTEGRATE WITH PRO TOOLS FOR GARY MOORE |
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Gary Moore toured the UK and Europe at the end of 2007, including the Jimi HendrixLive at Monterey theatrical screening and 40th anniversary concert London on his trip. For this concert, Moore was a member of the all-star tribute band, alongside Jimi Hendrix and The Experience musicians Mitch Mitchell on drums and Billy Cox on bass. Dave Wooster has been in charge of FOH at Moore’s recent performances and for this latest tour he chose a DiGiCo D1 console. Of course, any DAW on the market can be connected to a DiGiCo console, but Wooster went with Pro Tools. Here we catch up with him at the Hippodrome in London to find out why… What did you use for the show? We used a DiGiCo D1. It was the first time I’d used one outside of turning up at a festival or a one off show and just having to use what is there. I’ve actually had the chance to play and programme the console. Alongside the D1 we had a Pro Tools HD1 system that seamlessly integrated into the desk, which made my life a lot easier during rehearsals. Why did you need the desk hooked up to Pro Tools? The idea of recording the show is to give Gary some further material to use for various things, whether that’s a full release, a release of bonus material or a release as a digital download. Alongside that, it was being recorded as a production tool for me to use. I could work on the sound checks and the show without needing Gary and the band. At the end, I think we did 18 shows worth of multi-track recordings. What did you do back at your studio in Luton? We took the material back to Koolworld, cleaned it up, edited it, and mixed it down as a final master for Gary to listen to and choose what he wants to use. The integration between the live recording and the studio was completely seamless: the material lived on the hard drive and we dropped the session file onto the machine at the studio and ran it instantly. Did you use the internal digital effects? Yes, we used no outboard gear whatsoever. The effects were actually really nice, and the reverbs were very transparent and open. The low-end response of the compressors were really good and very true to what we were actually getting. So I was very impressed with it. How did the D1 compare to other consoles? Acoustically the D1 is far, far better than anything I’ve used to date. At the end of this we will have a nice bank of settings that we can transfer into Gary’s shows at a later stage, whether we use a D5 or a D1.
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