Two-time Grammy nominee and 24-time Billboard chart-topper Joe Bonamassa is touring this year in support of his 2021 LP, Time Clocks. Hailed by Guitar World magazine as “the world’s biggest blues guitarist,” the blues-rock legend’s 23-date US spring tour leg kicked off February 15 in Orlando, Florida and concludes in Washington, DC on March 26. Out on the road with him are a new pair of DiGiCo Quantum5 mixing consoles manned by front-of-house engineer Mike Lavielle and monitor engineer John Kaylor. Also on the trek are a DiGiCo SD-Rack, with 32-bit microphone inputs feeding both consoles, and a SD-Nano Rack used for ancillary duties at front of house, all on an Optocore loop.
The two desks also recently accompanied Bonamassa and crew aboard the Norwegian Pearl for his sold-out Keeping The Blues Alive at Sea VII cruise from February 21 to 25, where they proved extremely seaworthy on their maiden voyage. All of these early-2022 shows mark the inaugural deployment of the new desks by...
