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Digico sponsors Montreux Jazz Festival
Rob Hughes Jul 1 2009, 10:16am
SD series consoles to feature at the event later this month
Digico has become a sponsor of the Montreux Jazz Festival and will be providing SD series consoles for the event in Switzerland later this month.
The festival was created by Claude Nobs more than 40 years ago. Its diverse musical programme has since grown to encompass a number of musical styles alongside jazz and it continues to attract music fans and artists from Switzerland and around the world.
“We are up in the mountains, up with the cows and up in the sky,” said Nobs. “But for me it is so important that the festival remains leading edge, that we adopt new technologies that bring improvements to the audience’s experience.
“The introduction of FPGA design and the benefits for the engineers are quite impressive. Digico is the frontrunner in this change in audio processing and it is a great result for the festival that Digico has chosen to become part of the sponsorship programme.”
"It's refreshing to me that the company is so in tune with the industry and the engineers’ needs,” added Patrick Vogelsang, head of audio. “When we saw the SD7 and SD8 with the FPGA design, it was clear that for once we had a platform that would exceed our requirements at the festival.
“We were up and mixing on the demo console in 15 minutes – for a festival, the shortest learning curve is crucial. We then asked a lot of questions as to how flexible the system could be and both consoles remove a lot of the work we had to put in place in the past.”
“I’m excited about the festival this year as we have an amazing line up and I’m looking forward to experiencing the Digico difference over the Festival,” Claude concluded. “I’d like to thank the Festival audio team and Digico for making it happen.”
