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Maisie Peters on tour with DiGiCo consoles

British singer-songwriter Maisie Peters recently completed the latest UK leg of her “The Good Witch” tour, with further dates across Europe and Australia scheduled for 2024. FOH Engineer Nathan Kennedy and Monitor Engineer Michael “Fitz“ Fitzsimons utilised a DiGiCo SD10 and DiGiCo Quantum 225 respectively.

“During Maisie’s first year, I used an SD10”, says Kennedy. “For the US and UK tour, I switched to the Quantum 225 as I wanted to explore the Spice Rack and Mustard Processing. I apply Mustard compression to my drum groups, which makes the toms, kick, and snare pop a lot more than they did.”

Fitzsimons has deployed DiGiCo consoles across a multitude of acts, from Cradle of Filth to Eric Clapton, and for the past year has been using DiGiCo for monitoring Maisie Peters. “It’s an incredibly busy gig”, he says. “We’ve just wrapped up a grueling 110-day run across the USA, Canada, Japan, and the UK/Ireland, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg.”

Fitzsimons notes that he has toured most extensively with SD7 and SD10 consoles, and continues with an SD10 for Peters’ tour. “I’m sharing mic inputs on a fibre loop with Nathan, which also includes an Orange Box facilitating bi-directional Dante communication between monitors and playback, alongside various sends and receives”, he adds.

When it comes to the console set-up for monitors, Fitzsimons employs eight Stereo Auxes into his in ear rack, along with spare, guest, and control mixes. He incorporates subs, a butt kicker, and analogue returns to a hardwired drum pack. “The cue and crew mixes leave the board on matrixes”, he explains. “I merge these mixes into stereo groups before the matrix grid and use a shout group as a key input on the duckers to ensure clear talkback during the show.”

Additionally, Fitzsimons utilises ten internal effects, some on Aux sends and others as channel inserts. “For instance, with acoustic guitars, I adjust the wet/dry mix per Snapshot/song”, he says. “I split all my drum channels, then sub-mix the split channels into a buss feeding a stereo group, on which I use a pair of analogue Urei 1176s.”

For FOH, there are sixty inputs in total, which includes talkbacks. Kennedy also uses six mono Auxes, one stereo Aux, six mono groups and five stereo groups. “I have a dedicated Maisie vocal EQ group, kick and snare group, toms group, backing vocals group and guitars group,” he says.

(Photos: James Cumpsty/DiGiCo)

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