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Subfrantic invests in DiGiCo Quantum 225 and 338

South London-based production house Subfrantic has recently acquired two new DiGiCo consoles, supplied by Core Audio. The Quantum 225 and Quantum Pulse 338 with 32 Bit SD Racks are proving to be welcome additions to all Subfrantic divisions.

Founded in 1993, Subfrantic supplies solutions to houses of worship, live events, festivals, touring, conferences, and also carnival floats for the Notting Hill Carnival. Subfrantic Studios, developed post-pandemic in 2021, is the company’s rehearsal and recording facility which shares a warehouse and rental inventory with the production side of the business.

The studios are a set of spaces for touring musicians and technicians, but also support upcoming artists and engineers. The building has been designed around the needs of the whole team, providing facilities for work and wellbeing for touring engineers and artists.

“We’ve been waiting for a good opportunity to get back into DiGiCo since selling our SD8 a few years ago and the Quantum series felt like the right moment for us”, says Subfrantic’s Managing Director Steve Davies. “DiGiCo is a market leading console for live acts, and where we’ve previously lost out on touring artists coming to our studios because we weren’t able to offer them one, now that hole is plugged.”

For Subfrantic, the attraction to DiGiCo was not just because of requests from engineers and artists, but also the ability to use the consoles across a range of different performance settings. The Macro and Set Spill features allow engineers to quickly reset for any situation and compatibility across the range, meaning that visiting engineers can convert older show files to the newer Quantum 225 and 338.

“DiGiCo is a professional standard that people want and expect to see”, continues Davies. “Engineers like the familiarity across the range and the features they offer, especially the new Nodal Processing found in Quantum. I’m looking forward to getting to know these better from behind the consoles, including Klang integration and the Pulse update which we are rolling out over the next few weeks.”

Both the Quantum 225 and 338 will be heading out on tour with The Waeve, Graham Coxon from Blur’s other band, in May 2024. “The band will be supporting Elbow in arenas around the country for a couple of weeks”, says Davies. “I’ll be on monitors, with Blur’s regular FOH engineer Matt Butcher at the other end of the multicore.”

Pictured: The Subfrantic team. (Photo: Subfrantic)

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