Photo above: A view of ATK/Clair’s DiGiCo Quantum338 production console (foreground) and two Quantum7 FOH consoles at this year’s Grammy Awards in Los Angeles
The 65th Grammy Awards, which took place Sunday, February 5th at the Crypto.com Center in downtown Los Angeles, was an even busier affair than in the past. While it may not have had as many individual song performances as past Grammy Awards events, it more than made up for it with more complex productions, most notably the 35 rappers and four DJs who turned the stage into a 15-minute-long history of rap, including Missy Elliott, Big Boi, Run-D.M.C., Queen Latifah, Method Man, Public Enemy, Busta Rhymes, DJ Jazzy Jeff, and the Grandmasters Flash and Melle Mel, backed by a combination of tracks and the Roots playing live. Getting and keeping all of that audio together fell to a cohort of veteran mixers of the show and an all-star cast of DiGiCo mix consoles, provided through ATK Audiotek/Clair Global, the event’s...
