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DiGiCo Quantum 7s support BRITS 2021

This year’s BRIT Awards was a landmark event for live music. As part of a government-led research programme to assess how mass-participation events can safely resume, a socially distanced audience of 4,000, consisting mainly of NHS key workers, took their seats at London’s O2 Arena for the first indoor live music event in the UK since the beginning of the pandemic.

DiGiCo consoles were once again deployed at both front of house and monitor positions by the show’s long-time audio supplier, Britannia Row Productions. Britannia Row’s Josh Lloyd took on the audio design and FOH artist mixes, with Chris Coxhead in charge of presenter audio and Colin Pink assuming his recurring role as Live Sound Supervisor.

“We had a DiGiCo Quantum 7 dealing with the music at FOH and a mirrored pair of SD12s looking after the presenter needs”, explains Pink. “At monitors we also had two Quantum 7s dealing with the artists mixes.” Performing live and mixed by Lloyd were Olivia Rodrigo, Dua Lipa, Griff, Headie One, Arlo Parks, The Weeknd and Elton John with Years & Years, while Rag’n’Bone Man’s duet with P!nk was mixed by Rob Sadler. This was the first year that Quantum consoles were used exclusively for the bands. 

Lloyd’s FOH set up also included three SD Racks, an Orange Box and an Optocore I/O box, affording him integration with Waves, MADI and AES via the fibre optic loop. Nico Antonietti and Dan Ungaretti manned the SD12 monitor consoles, each of which was connected to two SD Racks, one for band inputs and one for RF mics and playback.

Both engineers had worked on previous editions of the event and used an existing show file as the basis for their set up, which they adapted according to the requests of the individual artists. These were saved as presets with each artist being allocated a Snapshot to avoid loading different show files during changeovers, a protocol which also helped to minimise any potential contamination.

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