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Mitch Rowland turns to Britannia Row for headline solo tour

Singer/songwriter Mitch Rowland found notoriety as Harry Styles’ guitarist and co-writer, and the pair toured the world together for two years during “Love on Tour”, which saw Britannia Row Productions supply audio for all 169 shows. When the time came for Rowland to take the spotlight in his own right, the American multi-instrumentalist turned to Britannia Row for live audio services on a much smaller scale.

Forming a close-knit bond after “Love on Tour”, audio engineer Christian Zuniga was welcomed back into the fold as Rowland’s Monitor Mixer and Production Manager. He comments: “Mitch is not an up-and-coming artist, he’s been touring arenas and stadiums for years, so he’s used to high-level touring. However, when he presented this new project, he wanted to play in small theatres instead of opening for a big tour. Every place has been special as each venue carries history.”

As the first artist signed to Harry Styles’ Erskine Records, industry backing doesn’t come much stronger, and the same can be said for Rowland’s audio team who were keen to support the new venture. Working closely with FOH Engineer Miguel Tapia, Zuniga continues: “Miguel is one the finest mix engineers out there, and Lez Dwight, Director of Britannia Row, and Ops Coordinator Shawn Dier from Clair LA’s office have all been so supportive of us. I thought that smaller tours wouldn’t get the same attention as the big ones, but I was wrong.”

The tour is running a pair of Allen & Heath DLive CTi1500s at both monitors and FOH with DMO MixRack and DX012, fitted with a pair of GigaAce cards for gain sharing. Each console has a Waves card for multitrack recording and virtual soundcheck, with everything running native and no outboard. “We wanted a small yet powerful footprint that could take us from festival appearances to clubs, as we’ve played some tiny stages”, says Zuniga.

“Miguel introduced me to Allen & Heath on my previous tour with Mexican pop act RBD. Most of those venues were stadiums and Miguel was mixing on a large format DLive”, he adds. “In previous meetings with Mitch and Rob, they wanted to produce a show that sounded like Mitch’s record ‘Come June’, with analogue tubes etc. An analogue system was out of the question due to venue size, but we were very pleased with how this sounded.”

Zuniga uses Shure PSM 1000s for Rowland and drummer Sara Jones, Rowland’s wife, on JH Audio Roxannes, with the rest of the band, Matt Schuessler (bass), Rob Schnapf (guitars) and Aiden Finn (keys) opting for D&B Audiotechnik wedges. “Mitch and Rob are very particular with their guitar sounds. We travel with two vintage Ampeg Geminis and a vintage Fender Custom Deluxe for their rigs. We use a mixture of Shure KSM32 and Beyerdynamic M60 mics, with the vocal mic being an SE V7”, Zuniga concludes.

(Photos: Britannia Row Productions/Clair Global)

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