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“The crew from Josh Groban are of the best in the world and that should say something about the equipment they choose to use,” says Jakobus de Wit from Gearhouse South Africa who, along with Kyle Robson from DWR, was involved in the project. We had great audiences, great local musicians, great weather and great gear to work with thanks to DWR Distribution and Gearhouse.” We feel very privileged to be able to travel to distant lands and put on our shows. “South Africa is not a typical destination for most American artists. We have great gear and great musicians, so we hide nothing. Each rack is configurable as mono, stereo or multi-channel, and. Designed from the ground up and optimized for fast operation, SuperRack is a cutting edge plug-rack that lets live sound and broadcast engineers run up to 64 racks of real-time processing. This translates to an exceptional quality vocal for us to work with. SuperRack Discover the next generation of live plugin processing with Waves SuperRack. He cares about his craft and works very hard to constantly refine his abilities. “His power and technique is in a class far beyond a typical pop vocalist. “Josh is a tremendous vocalist,” says Beck. Working with Groban has many highlights for both Beck and Hoff. MultiRack is incorporated into the console using the DiGiCo/Waves IO with Waves Extreme Servers, and we send to and receive from our Bricasti units via the local AES IO on the surface.” “We both use Waves MultiRack with our DiGiCo consoles, as well as a pair of Bricasti M7 reverb units. “Our first real dive into DiGiCo was August 2015 starting with Groban’s PBS special recording,” Beck continues. We know that if we have the input on stage, front of house will certainly have it as well.” “We love the stage rack sharing ability, as it helps us meet our daily production/rehearsal schedule by allowing us to line check onstage while front of house is tuning. “The DiGiCo platform helped us to achieve our goal with its straight-forward UI, ease of use, sonic quality, and scalability of input racks,” adds Hoff. This dictates that we needed to use a console that would allow us to move our work up or down in input list size without having to start from scratch every time.”
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There have been shows where Josh has sung with an orchestra, or orchestra and full electric band.
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“There is no typical Josh Groban configuration a show may be just Josh with a piano or a trio, which adds a guitar into the mix. “The main reason we chose DiGiCo consoles for Josh’s Stages tour was its scalability and cohesive UI throughout the model range,” says Beck. The tour visited the Ticketpro Dome in Johannesburg, the ICC Durban Arena and Cape Town’s Grand Arena, GrandWest with the full technical requirements supplied by Gearhouse South Africa.
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They recently arrived in South Africa on the US singer/songwriter’s Stages tour, where they used two DiGiCo SD10 digital mixing consoles, plus two SD-Racks for front of house and monitor positions. Audio engineer Mickey Beck has worked with Josh Groban for 12 years and Chris ‘Cookie’ Hoff for the past three.