Work: DigiCo SD7

At the Rick Wakeman show I worked on, detailed in an earlier post (here), I had a chance to work with a remarkable bit of audio technology, the DigiCo SD7. This is an audio mixing console that can be used in any audio mixing application; from live front of house and monitoring, to post production and broadcast console use. In the former of those scenarios, you can actually link the two consoles via gigabit ethernet, and they can communicate, sharing various information, including complete remote control and a webcam so you can see who's on the other desk Check out that link for it and have a read. It really is remarkable, and extremely pretty (so many lights and screens!!). It currently retails, at time of writing, for somewhere in the region of £120,000 and is customisable on order with various upgrades. Check out the pics (now updated with some images I took at the time!):

Work: Rick Wakeman @ Hampton Court Palace

The last two weekends of April, I was working with Rick Wakeman and his production crew for his latest show, The Six Wives of Henry VIII, live at Hampton Court Palace. The show is based on the music from his concept album, released in 1973, of the same name. Rick has said he wanted to do this show that year as part of the promotion for it. He was denied, but has now been given full permission for it to go ahead. It now happily coincides with a 400 year anniversary of the rule of Henry VIII, which Hampton Court Palace is rightly celebrating.