Nashville, TN (August 31, 2026)—Alex Warren, who first made a name for himself on YouTube and Tik Tok, is currently on a world tour with a DiGiCo Quantum338 at FOH and a Quantum7 in monitor world, both supplied by tour sound provider Clair Global.
FOH engineer James Butera, who also works extensively with Halsey, saw the equipment list grow as Warren’s Finding Family on the Road tour began to take shape in the planning phases. “Last fall we were a single SD-Rack and an Orange Box with MADI cards,” he shares. “Now we’ve added a second Orange Box to handle 64 channels of Dante, a second SD-Rack, and an SD-Mini for our B-stage inputs and outputs. I had to add a second loop out front to get outboard in and out quickly, and because I maxed out all the MADI, analog and AES local ports, along with using both DMI slots locally,” Butera explains.
“I’ve almost maxed out the Q338—I think I have two outputs of DSP left. But I love the Q338. It’s my favorite physical layout aside from the Q852, and I love the screens.”
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Monitor engineer Rob Brazinski, whose resume includes Kane Brown and Russell Dickerson, appreciates his chosen console, too, having initially planned to take out a Quantum5 before he realized he could use the additional controls and DSP. “The Quantum7’s been great; it’s been really rock solid. Having the extra set of fader banks and the extra meters has been really nice, just to keep an eye on things during the show in case stuff changes,” he says.
“The show has gotten so big with Alex since August of last year. We added three new band members this year and two additional backline techs; it blew up so fast—but the Quantum7 has handled it super well.”
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Brazinski has his hands full, sending 16 dedicated mix outputs to 20 transmitters. “There are six band members—drums, bass, two guitars, keys, and cello, plus two background vocals and Alex—so only 40 band inputs, but when you add all the talkbacks, comms, video and playback, we’re close to 95 or 96 inputs. We have maybe 16 channels free on our Optocore loop. It’s all been working great.”
