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Midas Flies With Noel Gallagher

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds world tour has been using Midas XL8 consoles for its UK leg and will carry Pro6s and Pro2Cs this summer.

Noel Gallagher’s monitor engineer Nahuel Gutierrez with the Midas XL8.
New York (April 2, 2012)—Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds world tour has been using Midas XL8 consoles for its UK leg and will carry Pro6s and Pro2Cs this summer.

The XL8s at FOH and on monitors on the UK arena leg were supplied by Britannia Row Productions. The tour will move onto Pro6s for its run of European and US dates throughout the spring and then to the new Pro2Cs for summer festival appearances.

Both FOH and monitor engineer, Antony King and Nahuel Gutierrez respectively, used the XL8, to mix a 26-piece choir from the Crouch End Festival Chorus and Hertfordshire Chorus, as well as a brass section, on the UK tour.

“Out of 96 channels, I’m using 93, and out of 48 outputs, I’m using 47,” says Gutierrez, who took an XL8 out on monitors for the last-ever Oasis tour. “My inputs include 48 channels for the band and talkback system, 30 wireless mics and 14 stereo in-ear systems for some of the band’s techs and the choir, plus we have a three-piece horn section. When we finish the arena tour, we go to Europe with the cut-down version on the Pro6s, without the choir and the horn section. I’ll save and import the show files into the Pro6; we set it up on the XL8 so that all channels above 56 and mixes 17 through 32—the choir and the brass—will disappear.

“Then during the summer festivals, we’ll put the show onto the Pro2C. Sometimes we’re going to be third on the bill so we’ll roll up, do our set, then pick up the Pro2C and go; it won’t take up much room on the stage or at front of house.”

Is Gutierrez concerned about moving from such a large expanse to Midas’ smallest control surface to date? “It will be different obviously, and will take getting used to, but the main thing is it’s going to sound the same, and have the same operating system, software etc,” he says. “I’m really looking forward to using the new MCA groups on the Pro2c, as I was very involved with the design, so I’m eager to have a play on them.

“I’ve really got to grips on the XL8’s automation this time around. Three of the band members, who used to play with Sheryl Crow, are used to having different levels and EQ on a song-by-song basis. Mostly it’s the auxiliary send levels I’m changing, plus a few EQs and some mute buttons.”

King last used an XL8 at FOH on Depeche Mode’s world tour and remarked that on this tour, “everywhere we go, people really like it. We were just in Australia and Bruce Johnson, who used to mix Oasis on an XL4, came to one of the shows, and couldn’t believe how good it sounded.”

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